Hockey Game Confirmed?

[evanfeldman100]

Just in case anyone's wondering, I highly doubt the big (3*3*60) box is pucks. Rubber is far too heavy and foam is too light (when calculated using - http://www.ebay.com/itm/POOF-Slinky-...-/331413584959 as the approximate foam weight, the box would only weigh around two pounds).

Perhaps it is a mix of rubber, foam and street hockey pucks and tennis balls.

[Alex2614]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

Just so we're on the same page: every time someone here says "regolith" referring to the actual surface Lunacy was played on, I get a little crazy. Regolith is the loose surface of dirt or dust over bedrock; in this case, the dust on the surface of the moon. What we played on was the stuff that is used to line cheap showers, and it was called "regolith" so that we would associate it with low gravity on the surface of the moon, in keeping with the theme. That stuff will never be used again in FRC, as it disintegrated and lost the desired low CoF characteristic, and made a mess.

Please don't dog on me, veterans. I know that you know already, but some people (especially students) don't know and might need to get caught up on the terminology.

THANK YOU FOR THIS!! The actual material is called FRP (Fiber-Reinforced Plastic) Board. http://www.homedepot.com/p/Unbranded...9600/100389836 This is a huge pet-peeve of mine as well!
FIRST made the mistake of saying "a slick polymer material called regolith" in the game animation, and it has stuck ever since.

[SoulianPride]

I'm having doubts about it being a hockey game simply because that package could be anything - it doesn't have to be hockey specific.

[nardavin]

I was messing around that the long box was a hockey stick, but it could legitimately be hockey pucks. Never even thought of that

[nardavin]

Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird

Why would they force use to use hockey sticks? Wouldn't it be more (dare I say it?) in the spirit of FIRST to let the students solve the problem and not give them the solution...

Yes, I know. As I stated earlier, I was joking about it being hockey sticks. Assuming my theory is correct, it would make much more sense if it were hockey pucks.

[Abhishek R]

If you wanna force low-friction environments, I would rather see FIRST force everyone to use omni-wheels on carpet rather than regolith again. And from what I've heard, regolith was just a pain, so I doubt they would pull that out again.

My guess is field hockey with tennis balls, on carpet. I just wish for a mostly open carpet field...I like fast robots.

[nardavin]

Originally Posted by samfruth

@FIRSTweets just tweeted a #TBT picture to Lunacy 2009 :0



Low friction floors would be needed for the hockey game right??



It's either a hockey game or they are WAY too good a trolling us.

I just added that to the main post. That's actually a really good point.

[AWoL]

Originally Posted by nardavin

-In the source code for the site, the word "Choice" in the title "FIRST Choice" is split into "Ch", "o", and "ice". The word "ice" being alone is the first real hint towards it being a hockey game.

view-source:http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...5-kit-of-parts

Line 269 for the note-so-gifted at parsing HTML source.

[Oblarg]

I do not think there will be regolith. None of the "game hints" of this sort have ever panned out, and I think FIRST knows that a return of regolith would make a whole lot of people very, very upset.

[SenorZ]

Originally Posted by Oblarg

I do not think there will be regolith. None of the "game hints" of this sort have ever panned out, and I think FIRST knows that a return of regolith would make a whole lot of people very, very upset.

I think FIRST has a bunker somewhere in NH that has been used for constant regolith game simulations since Lunacy. One day, when the time is right, and the game is perfected, it will be unleashed upon an unsuspecting (but sort of suspecting) population.

[Oblarg]

Originally Posted by SenorZ

I think FIRST has a bunker somewhere in NH that has been used for constant regolith game simulations since Lunacy. One day, when the time is right, and the game is perfected, it will be unleashed upon an unsuspecting (but sort of suspecting) population.

To be fair, regolith was only one of a great multitude of reasons why Lunacy was a terrible, terrible game.

But it was still a big one.

[JustbeingJFK]

I don't think it's confirmed but a slight possibly. The name FIRST Choice has been that for a long time so I don't think that's a hint but my team was talking about how the 3x3x60 object could be a net rolled up for a hockey goal.

[cbale2000]

If memory serves, Lunacy was also played using a brand new kind of control system for the robots (or at the very least the driver stations). Funny that we should also have a new control system this year...

[thinker&planner]

If they were to use Regolith or a similar surface that is not widely available, I would hope that they would include a sample in the kit. Didn't they do this for Lunacy?
There is nothing big enough for a robot to sit on in the described packages, unless it is rolled up in the 3x3x60" package.

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by cbale2000

If memory serves, Lunacy was also played using a brand new kind of control system for the robots (or at the very least the driver stations). Funny that we should also have a new control system this year...

Yes, Lunacy was the introduction of the cRIO and related hardware to replace the IFI control system. As a side note, it was the only year that the blue box driver stations were used, before switching to laptops.