No Way That's Gonna Happen!

[Cyberphil]

Originally Posted by Barry Bonzack

A game that 100% of people say they love the day of kickoff.

Well, that's like saying having a president that wins 100% of the popular votes. But its a good idea!

[tim_reiher]

Fruit as game pieces! Then there can be food fights after every match!
(Human players, of course, may get some of this during a match...)
Actually, that could end up being quite wasteful now that I think of it. But it's more biodegradable than pvc or nylon or rubber!

[alicen]

i say, human players on the field

[EricH]

Originally Posted by alicen

i say, human players on the field

Stack Attack. (Oh, you meant while the robots are running? Then I'd agree with you, though Triple Play came close.)

[johnr]

Buffet or Gates decide FIRST is to important to fail. Leave feds out, they got to much to deal with. One billion dollars is put in trust fund at 4%. Teams split the interest once a year. I'll leave the math to someone else.

[Taylor]

Duct tape is legal.
On the other hand, electricity is not.
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All programming must be written in binary.
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Lemons replace 12V batteries for the power source. Or perhaps hamsters.
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Non-Newtonian Fluid game. Buy stock in cornstarch now!
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Robots have a minimum size requirement rather than a maximum.
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Game objects are Bicycle brand playing cards.
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Alliances are selected based on the robots' functionalities and the teams' strategies, not based on history and politics
(naw, that's too outlandish even for this thread)

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by johnr

Buffet or Gates decide FIRST is to important to fail. Leave feds out, they got to much to deal with. One billion dollars is put in trust fund at 4%. Teams split the interest once a year. I'll leave the math to someone else.

1 billion at 4% is 40 million. Split between 20,000 high schools is $2000 per team.

[GarrettF2395]

Hmm, I think the one thing I would really like to see is...
Robots trying to joust, in a field filled with chuck E. cheese ballpit balls.
Now that would be awesome!
Also it would we cool if all the refs were dressed as ninjas...

[goodsky]

I like the fully autonomous robot idea! We joked about that for a while this year because if the lap running autonomous for Overdrive worked well enough -with collision detection included- then we could just turn in on and let it run the whole match and maybe make the turns better than a human driver... (it didn't work that well... it started having temper tantrums!) But that would be really cool to more automated commands for the robots! Maybe zones where you can not have any human control, and it has to go through on sensors and programming alone!

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by goodsky

I like the fully autonomous robot idea! We joked about that for a while this year because if the lap running autonomous for Overdrive worked well enough -with collision detection included- then we could just turn in on and let it run the whole match and maybe make the turns better than a human driver... (it didn't work that well... it started having temper tantrums!) But that would be really cool to more automated commands for the robots! Maybe zones where you can not have any human control, and it has to go through on sensors and programming alone!

Sounds like Botball, somewhat.

[joshy1323]

i want to have each division at nationals gather their robots and battle to determine what division really is best.

[GarrettF2395]

What if the game field was like a giant air hockey table that made the game pieces move at random?
Then at random times during the match, the lights on the field will turn off an on again! Sounds like fun!