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Re: 2011 Red Herring #1

Felt covered field with velcro wheels????
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Felt covered field with velcro wheels????
Unless the velcro was loop side, the field surface would need replacing after one day--robots would damage it worse than the most damaging game played in 2002, 2vsFRC71 (which, BTW, 71's file cards had a tendency to win).

Now that's devious: Hook-side velcro as the field, with loop-side as robot drive material. Get the field damaging the robots for once!
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Re: 2011 Red Herring #1

The problem I see with a felt or "fuzzy" field is that the texture and "fuzziness" would seriously wear out over time.
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Re: 2011 Red Herring #1

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The problem I see with a felt or "fuzzy" field is that the texture and "fuzziness" would seriously wear out over time.
im pretty sure no matter what the field surface (except water) would wear out over time. i remember in 09 hearing about how much new regalith was for driving on than used. and last year by the time the state championship came around im pretty sure the field had quite a few tape patches on it
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Re: 2011 Red Herring #1

I got it. Penn was referring to a game piece, but it was spelled wit an extra "n" on purpose to throw us off (making us think of tennis balls). This year's game is actually a writing contest! Our robots must write a "4" paragraph essay. The diabolical twist? The paper is on the back of opposing robots... (so that means we missed out in watching the GDC members and FRC Staff running around with a piece of paper taped to their back, while others tried write an essay on it.)
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Re: 2011 Red Herring #1

Except that Penn is a brand of tennis ball.

Either that, or robots must test the myth that the pen is mightier than the sword.
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All I've got to say is...

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Re: 2011 Red Herring #1

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I got it. Penn was referring to a game piece, but it was spelled wit an extra "n" on purpose to throw us off (making us think of tennis balls). This year's game is actually a writing contest! Our robots must write a "4" paragraph essay. The diabolical twist? The paper is on the back of opposing robots... (so that means we missed out in watching the GDC members and FRC Staff running around with a piece of paper taped to their back, while others tried write an essay on it.)
That would be VERY interesting - to build that is! Uber boring to watch.

I think an american gladiators style game where two sides bombard each other with massive amounts of tennis balls would be an absolute blast!
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That would be VERY interesting - to build that is! Uber boring to watch.

I think an american gladiators style game where two sides bombard each other with massive amounts of tennis balls would be an absolute blast!
...i guess we know what human players are gonna be doing now
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I got it. Penn was referring to a game piece, but it was spelled wit an extra "n" on purpose to throw us off (making us think of tennis balls). This year's game is actually a writing contest! Our robots must write a "4" paragraph essay. The diabolical twist? The paper is on the back of opposing robots... (so that means we missed out in watching the GDC members and FRC Staff running around with a piece of paper taped to their back, while others tried write an essay on it.)
So FIRST will force us to learn how to write. Colleges already love FIRST students, but they'll be giving future engineering students an arm and a leg of scholarship money to come to their school because we'll ACTUALLY know how to write. From what I've heard*, engineering studentz dont hav gewd eenglish...


*and seen exhibited by others. As a journalism student, it's something that really bugs me.
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Re: 2011 Red Herring #1

Of course, we all know the solution to that little writing challenge, right?


Rubber stamps. Write essay portions out beforehand, make rubber stamps of them, and have an ink roller on the robot. One hit from a 4-paragraph stamp pad should do the trick on every robot... That means that you spend the first minute stamping all three of your opponents and the second minute backed up against a wall protecting your back.
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Re: 2011 Red Herring #1

Or a giant one of these:



Just run into the other bot, or have a button that engages it!
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Re: 2011 Red Herring #1

Going off some of the other ideas..

When I was in elementary school we played a game called "trash" where we would be split into two teams and each confined to our side of the line in the middle of the gym. When the coach shouted go, we would all race around trying to throw these balls from our side to the other side. The team with the most "trash" on their side at the end would lose.

Imagine a wall in the middle of the field, about three feet high or so, made of polycarbonate and the robots had to throw as much of their game pieces over the wall as possible. Maybe there would even be one opposing robot in your zone to make things interesting.

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