2010 Game Hint #2

[RoboMaster]

Originally Posted by Chief Samwize

To me it does not look like the regular carpet used by FIRST in the past games. To me it looks closer to maybe the foam tiles similar to the field used in the vex tournaments.

Yeah I've thought about that too. But there's no real way to tell and I think it could just as well be regular carpet.

Your focus on the carpet brings me to think (in my opinion) that the focus is on the gate. There must be some significance about it, so I think this furthers the possibility that the gates are moved and possibly too that the field is majorly re-organized.

[infinitydex]

Originally Posted by RoboMaster

Yeah I've thought about that too. But there's no real way to tell and I think it could just as well be regular carpet.

Your focus on the carpet brings me to think (in my opinion) that the focus is on the gate. There must be some significance about it, so I think this furthers the possibility that the gates are moved and possibly too that the field is majorly re-organized.

a few years ago they had just plain carpet not tiles

[Trent B]

Tiles? Do you mean the regolith from last year? As far as I know all the competitions but last year were on carpeting.

Removing does sound familiar since I remember them putting a piece of Lexan on the gate.

[JKWarrior]

Here is the hint http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr....aspx?id=16119

[infinitydex]

READ THIS ITS THE COMPETITION

i learned that the competition is something with shooting like basketball with no baskets or basketballs. its balls like last years competition. the hint #1 is a holder for a ball that is mounted on the wall. if u look closely at hint to the bottom right corner is field and the top right is a wall. its carpet flooring and the yellow things are supports for the field wall, nothing other then that. they had it in last years competition. our team noticed that the steal plate was the loading ramp until some1 say that it was at a 90 degree angle. as we think thats a pivit point so 1+ ball in there and then flip it. also we think that u can shoot teh balls or objects over the wall.
TY
c u at the kick off january 9 2010.
Midpacific team Hawaii

[TD912]

Originally Posted by infinitydex

READ THIS ITS THE COMPETITION

i learned that the competition is something with shooting like basketball with no baskets or basketballs. its balls like last years competition. the hint #1 is a holder for a ball that is mounted on the wall. if u look closely at hint to the bottom right corner is field and the top right is a wall. its carpet flooring and the yellow things are supports for the field wall, nothing other then that. they had it in last years competition. our team noticed that the steal plate was the loading ramp until some1 say that it was at a 90 degree angle. as we think thats a pivit point so 1+ ball in there and then flip it. also we think that u can shoot teh balls or objects over the wall.
TY
c u at the kick off january 9 2010.
Midpacific team Hawaii

Some good ideas you have there, but I don't think that's the actual game. The second hint is a part of the edge around the field, it's not in the middle of it. The 90 degree 'bent' steel plate has a hinge so it stops robots from going off the field when there's a game going on, and folds down afterward to let them pass through, sorta like a door.

Well, I guess we'll find out in less than 3 days... Good luck!

P.S. to everyone else: Don't be pickin' on the rookie teams, guys! We're here to help them get off to a good start. In a way, because they don't know about past field designs, it allows them to come up with some more ideas instead of rehashing old ones over and over.

[xPaulWallx4]

Since it looks like we will be on carpet again this year, that means most of the rules that were thrown out last year(high speed raming) will come back into play.

Also, I'd just like to clear this up although someone else may have already done this. But, the yellow plates next to the gate, are just velcro supports, they have always been there; even last year when we weren't really on carpet.

[infinitydex]

Originally Posted by Spylake

Warming up the bullpen for #2

Since they named the last hint #1 it stands to reason that there should be at least a game hint #2.

y would u even post that

[infinitydex]

that is a bording ramp but the rest is real. they sent out on the internet game management look it up. the ramp was just a guess

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by infinitydex

that is a bording ramp but the rest is real. they sent out on the internet game management look it up. the ramp was just a guess

...internet game management? Enlighten me. Link, or it didn't happen.

[TD912]

Originally Posted by Karibou

...internet game management? Enlighten me. Link, or it didn't happen.

Maybe he means this?
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr....aspx?id=16119

It's already been posted by a couple other people...

[Lil' Lavery]

I'm not so sure why everyone (save one other poster in this thread) assumes this is a CAD program instead of an animation program.

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

I'm not so sure why everyone (save one other poster in this thread) assumes this is a CAD program instead of an animation program.

That was my original thought! The first hint was definitely in Inventor, but this looked distinctly different to me, and I can't believe that I forgot to bring it up earlier.

Animation screenshottttt.

[Trent B]

Originally Posted by Karibou

I don't think that FIRST has ever used tiled carpet. It's probably always been the big rolls - probably cheaper, and considerably easier to set up.

I couldn't imagine setting up individual tiles and taping them together even a few rolls of carpet, at 10k lakes in 08 there was a robot that ended up almost driving through the carpet when it hit the wall in autonomous (speed controllers at full speed after impact) so I don't think tiles would hold up.

edit: It is time to sleep, I am slowly becoming a game hint addict...

[infinitydex]

last year as i looked up was the only year that they did something other then carpet or atleast first time doing lunar surface