2011 FRC Game Hint #2

[Brad1413]

It could be possible that we are using pieces from older games in each shape,for example, the tetras from triple play, the bins in stack attack, and the balls from aim high.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Brad1413

It could be possible that we are using pieces from older games in each shape,for example, the tetras from triple play, the bins in stack attack, and the balls from aim high.

I am hoping for that but I'd rather see the return of the trackballs. Love those things.

[Brad1413]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

I am hoping for that but I'd rather see the return of the trackballs. Love those things.

I agree with you on that but i just don't see how FIRST would use them.

[torihoelscher]

Sorry if anyone else posted this but:
My Software mentor and I was brainstorming and we think that the first logo will be on the game pieces this year. Also this year's main event is Ice Hockey. The reason why I bring up the Hockey thing is because last years event was Soccer and the game was soccer and for Lunacy it was NASA, and the year before that was Nascar. If it is hockey related then the first logo will be on pucks (any size) really, and at a beginning of a hockey game they line up in a chain and face each other. They will be connected like a train and "push" the pucks into the goal.


Please tell me someone else has thought of this as well?

Please reply!

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

I am hoping for that but I'd rather see the return of the trackballs. Love those things.

Trackballs would be awesome as some sort of end game objective. Drop Two of them onto the field in a way similar to the kick balls from 2004 in the last 20 seconds of the match or so and that'd be one heck of a twist.

I can imagine it now...

[JaneYoung]

Can you imagine the storage demands for bins, tetras, and trackballs?!

[SenorZ]

I think a cool game would be involve moving of pillars (like fence posts) to form a wall (hint#1) in order to prevent the opposing team from collection an objective (capture the flag style).
As for the FIRST logo in hint #2 I like the idea that it's just team members working together, but I think the literal "chain" inference is better. Maybe the posts can be linked together to make them harder to remove?

I'm a rookie mentor. Looking back at the 2010 hints I can't believe people figured that one out!

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by Jared341

And there are two traffic cones visible in this picture of Dave's summer vacation...

I'd be stoked if the playing element were traffic cones. Each year I give my robotics students a design task around a mock game for the week before kickoff. This year I made up a game called Cone Zone using standard 28" traffic cones.

http://www.vandenrobotics.com/bin/ConeZone.ppt

Other year's mock games are listed here.

[EricH]

We had hockey in 2009 as well. That "1/6 gravity" surface sure resembled ice.

Pucks... 1999's game, anybody? (The big strategy item that year was a large octagonal platform that moved. If it was on your side of the field, your score was doubled. It was known as the puck.)

[torihoelscher]

Originally Posted by EricH

We had hockey in 2009 as well. That "1/6 gravity" surface sure resembled ice.

Pucks... 1999's game, anybody? (The big strategy item that year was a large octagonal platform that moved. If it was on your side of the field, your score was doubled. It was known as the puck.)

Yes but that was supposed to represent the moon's surface! This would actually be ice!

[demosthenes2k8]

I agree, trackballs are amazing. Volleyball with Trackballs is not, though. (Try spiking. Go ahead. Try it.)

I like the "moving pillars" idea, but there'd probably be some weird rules like "you can't tip the pillars" or similar, or you'll be unable to completely block off an area.

[onecoolc]

Alright, at this point it's unlikely I can say anything that hasn't already been said. So here's what I'm going with:

1. Train themed game
2. Heavily coopertition based
3. Possibility of a white alliance

They're probably ALL wrong, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by Doug G

I'd be stoked if the playing element were traffic cones. Each year I give my robotics students a design task around a mock game for the week before kickoff. This year I made up a game called Cone Zone using standard 28" traffic cones.

http://www.vandenrobotics.com/bin/ConeZone.ppt

Other year's mock games are listed here.

That would actually be a really great FRC game!

Doug, you get my vote to be a member of the GDC next year!

[TheoBlacksmith]

Originally Posted by onecoolc

Alright, at this point it's unlikely I can say anything that hasn't already been said. So here's what I'm going with:

1. Train themed game
2. Heavily coopertition based
3. Possibility of a white alliance

They're probably ALL wrong, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

i agree with most of what onecoolc said except for the possilbilty of a white alliance. it would be to racist.

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Can you imagine the storage demands for bins, tetras, and trackballs?!

What if they got bins big enough to store the other game pieces, but were also game pieces themselves?

That'd be nifty.