No Way That's Gonna Happen!

[EricH]

I'm going to go with Wayne-- I don't think FRC has had one of those in years! (If it hasn't been multipliers, it's been ref judgment calls or seemingly minor rules that have a huge effect.)

As for outside-the-box, I'll go with "house" robots that only get in the way, or that you have to score on. Preferably the latter, as the former has already been done.

[bduddy]

a game that is simple, easily scored, interesting to play and with a minimal amount of referee decisions and petty rules.....

Originally Posted by EricH

I'm going to go with Wayne-- I don't think FRC has had one of those in years! (If it hasn't been multipliers, it's been ref judgment calls or seemingly minor rules that have a huge effect.)

As for outside-the-box, I'll go with "house" robots that only get in the way, or that you have to score on. Preferably the latter, as the former has already been done.

I've got it! I've got it! We can replace the referees with...





P.S.: I know that picture is a bit big... is there any way to resize them on this forum?

[samir13k]

Forget the water and flying monkeys! lets play in a huge batch of corn!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-m1Q...eature=related

...maybe we can have our robots pick up the corn and have to turn it into ethanol in the process of playing the game. That way we can get rid of our bulky batteries, and put combustible materials on the field!
(...i'm pretty sure ethanol's combustible...not positive though)

[Wayne C.]

Originally Posted by bduddy

I've got it! I've got it! We can replace the referees with...

the refs are irreplaceable. ; )

[samir13k]

Originally Posted by lenny8

what about we ride the robots

Ha! we made one of those, we call it the magic carpet!


...I still have some troubleshooting to do with it though...

[gorrilla]

i think first should design a game with more interaction between teams, like you have to score on the other alliances robots somehow

[samir13k]

multiple story playing field anyone?

[ikhana870]

Originally Posted by gorrilla

i think first should design a game with more interaction between teams

yeah I agree. but i think that it will be more like you have to pass the ball or whatever from teammate to teammate. so you really need to work with them, or your whole alience suffers, that or i think that it would be cool to have a multi leveled playing field, like each robot is responsible for getting it up to the next level for the next robot to score.

[JanTM1191]

Originally Posted by gorrilla

i think first should design a game with more interaction between teams, like you have to score on the other alliances robots somehow

Looks like that already happened this year...heheh good guess!!

[Sunshine]

I want to see students operating robots with their minds. Check out these two links before you poo-poo the idea.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4564186n
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/6130

[rsisk]

I like the cooperative type of game, especially with the new networking capabilities of this years control system. Imagine if the robots had to communicate information to the other robots on their team concerning track conditions or something of that nature. Even better if they had to discover who was on their team and act without the other alliance discovering them (that might be tough to do )

[Schnabel]

How about drive team matches? That is instead of the Drive team driving the robot, the robot shocks the drive team into running and doing the tasks!

[Herodotus]

No wheels or tanks tracks touching the ground. I.E. no rolling drive chain. It has to walk or hover. Unreasonable? Oh, entirely. Awesome? Oh, definitely.

Edit: Whoops, sorry Dan, I must have slipped past your post. This has already been suggested.

[ali-of-oz-388]

388 has the best idea as to what the game is, but we're not telling... not now atleast!

[typharn91]

I have a great idea as too what the games going to be let's take the water game to the extreme...pudding or jello game anyone