pic: 2005 Vex Field

[dk5sm5luigi]

Originally Posted by The Cyborg

How do those small balls work? Does a human player throw them?
Is there also an autonomous mode too?!

Those small balls work fine, the human player recieves them through the hole the same as last year and then throws them over the 6 foot wall infront of them. There is no autonomous mode this year .

[Joe Johnson]

Whoa! Is that THE field (the one FIRST will be using) or a practice field you built?

It looks great in any case.

Joe J.

[BrianBSL]

Originally Posted by Joe Johnson

Whoa! Is that THE field (the one FIRST will be using) or a practice field you built?

It looks great in any case.

Joe J.

Its the real thing, came straight from FIRST & Hatch, along with a crew of people to run it. The scoring software worked well and had none of the problems that it had been having with FRC competitions. The only issues were some problems with the ball dump early in the day.

[sanddrag]

For anyone who has built a Vex robot and practiced with field parts, have you picked up the big red ball? Can you move the mobile goals? To me, those things look very hard to do for these somewhat frail little robots.

[David Kelso]

If you used the new field, did the pipes on the sationary goal stay in place or did they open up and move all over the place as the game progressed?

[dk5sm5luigi]

Originally Posted by David Kelso

If you used the new field, did the pipes on the sationary goal stay in place or did they open up and move all over the place as the game progressed?

They did open up a little but not that often. Since the goals are so low compared to the height they are thrown from the back board doesn't make too much of an effect since by time it gets to the goal it is mostly a downward action. So to answer the question every now and then balls did go through the back.

[Francis-134]

Wow, that field looks much better than the one we made. I can't wait to see all the teams compete in Atlanta.

[Arefin Bari]

wow... this is so cool. I want to build a robot which can control the mini 2x ball and can hang. This should be fun to work on...

[Rich Wong]

So is this a sign of things to come- VEX challenge will be last year’s FRC Challenges; just rescaled?
Next year’s VEX with be VEX-Triple Play?

[Rabbit222]

WOW! That is really sweet! I really like how FIRST used last year's game as a vex game. Could it be possible that FIRST will make the yearly Vex challenge the previous year's FIRST game? That would be sweet to see those little things manipulate tetras. Smaller ones of course! I can't wait to see it in action @ Nats. Good luck to the Vex teams!

[tiffany34990]

WOW!! that's soo cool.. i wanna play even more now!! vex is gonna be great for those involved! i can't wait till championship to see this closer..this is so cool...good luck to the vex teams out there and have fun!!

[Koko Ed]

So if they do a mini version of Triple Play next year are they going to have a little animatronic action figure carry the tetras in the human player zone?

[Pin Man]

I wish they picked us to be a team... We signed up but didn't get in...

[tkwetzel]

Originally Posted by Erin Rapacki

I would expect FVC games to differ from FRC games in years to come. My guess is, that for this year, they decided to bring back an old game because there wasn't enough time to develop a completely new game that they know would play out well.

Actually, if FIRST expects to use the VEX challenge as a starter program for the FRC, it would be helpful for sudents to see what the larger robots did the year before. It will give them a little bit of a head start, since they are most likely just learning about how to build a robot (not completely true for this year...but hopefully for future years). I would not guess either way if they will use the previous year's FRC game or if they start to develop FVC games seperately or have the same game in different scales. They could do any of those and have them each work out very well.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by dk5sm5luigi

...and then throws them over the 6 foot wall infront of them..

So... it is not EXACTLY 1/3 scale then eh? 6 ft wall? I don't remember the wall last year being 18 ft tall..

Makes sense to not scale them though.. what good would a 2 ft wall be to follow the same rules as last year? It would be easy as pie.