"Competition format" game suggestions

[EddieMcD]

And we all know how Dean hates violence.

*thinks back to 1997*

[Chris Hibner]

Originally posted by Andy Baker


Did you have the "Sock-er Boppers" (or something like that)? These were the blow-up plastic things that would go over your hands... they would be worth about 1 day of fun until they would pop from a sharp bop to the head.

Andy B.

In fact, we did have those big blow-up plastic punching things. I remember them looking like beach balls on your hands (perhaps a little flatter on the top, though). Later, we got extra-padded boxing gloves for a gift. I knocked my brother out once and that was the end of fighting implements for us. ( that goes to show how different things used to be - these days, who would give their kids a blow-up thing that allows them to punch other people?)

[Jeff Waegelin]

Originally posted by EddieMcD
And we all know how Dean hates violence.

*thinks back to 1997*

What happened in '97?

[Matt Leese]

Originally posted by Jeff Waegelin


What happened in '97?

My guess is that it was a reference to the banning of tipping of other robots. I don't think that's particularly a violence issue as much as an objective issue. I'd see that as equivalent to tackling a player in basketball instead of trying to steal the ball from. Contact is good, destruction is not.

Matt

[EddieMcD]

Actually, he banned it in '98 because some teams took advantage of that old "T5" rule. But it looks really cool if you watch the old tapes, especially of the NH regional.

[Wayne C.]

anybody go back and see where this year's game came from...