so do saw horses wear horse shoes?
though the last few years have seen the main object as a ball, it isn’t any less likely to be a ball this year. The ball is a fundamental piece of many internationally acclaimed games and hundreds more unofficial.
On the subject of the game, every year I think, “how can they ever make it better than last year?” and every year, they do. 
As a matter of fact, that is not the case. Take a good look at the games for the past several years. I can only think of one time there’s been two or more “ball” games in a row, and that was 2000-2002. Since then, crates, balls, tetras, balls, pool tubes, balls. Before then, similar pattern.
Analysis indicates that we’re due for a non-ball year.
that’s a good observation but whether or not there was a ball last year for the game does not affect whether or not there is a ball this year. Its all up to FIRST.
Though, I do hope the pattern stays true.
I was thinking frisbees might be fun.
At any rate, I’m hoping for something we have to launch into the air.
EDIT:
We could be required to skip a frisbee-like gamepiece off water. Say each gamepeice has a name printed along the rim, and we have to skip each gamepiece accross the water a number of times before we can let it sink to the bottom of the pool. Points would be allocated for skipping the gamepieces, but most of the points would be in sinking the gamepiece at the appropriate time. The autonomous period at the beginning would be dredging the frisbees out of the bottom of the pool (the pool would only be a meter in depth).
I was remembering that earlier this year, Dave posted a picture of a glass of water on a pair of Mars bars. Twice. That must be a…
…Game Hint!
You wish…it probably had more to do with the discovery of water on Mars!
Aha! Confectionary contest! I like it!
haha!
Well, we’d have to round them up.
(Thought you threw me a curve, didn’t ya? :))
There has been a pattern? Awww, crap. Now we have to start the design all over again…
-dave
.
The patterns would be a little easier if they actually gave information on years before 2002. Heck, I’d really like them to create videos for every year’s FRC competition, but I know they don’t have the time. And besides that, I think they were origionally something more like an actually assembly line, but they found people were more exited about the sports aspect of it.
At any rate, the field stays about the same size, the robots need about the same maneuverability, and have the same constraints. One of my main questions is: Will there be a robocoach this year? (I’m hoping there won’t)
I doubt there will.
Also if you look closer at Dave’s post it indicates that there is no ball this year.
Pattern?
1992 - Circle - Balls
1993 - Circle - Balls
1994 - Circle - Balls
1995 - Circle - Balls
1996 - Circle - Balls
1997 - Circle - Tubes
1998 - Circle - Balls
1999 - Circle - Floppies
2000 - Circle - Balls
2001 - Circle - Balls
2002 - Circle - Balls
2003 - Square - Bins
2004 - Circle - Balls
2005 - Triangle - Tetras
2006 - Circle - Balls
2007 - Circle - Tubes
2008 - Circle - Balls
There is FIRST wiki, and normal wikipeida both have information on the games. Not videos, but still information. Also, FRC 45 has information from 1992.
I was referencing the more recent pattern…ball…other…ball…other…and so on. I think we should have a non-ball game this year, but simple logic says it could go either way.
by the above analysis, does a cone get classified as a trianlge or a cirlce?
It’s triangle, circle, square from the side, top, bottom, respectively.
Perhaps they’ll use hemispheres.
I’m starting to wonder who actually manufactures their gamepeices.
I actually figured this years game would look a lot like what the VEX game ended up being with several sizes of boxes.
While I’d doubt they’d choose the traffic cone as an object … it would be cool.
And since Dave has decided to post here, I guess it’s now officially red herring season :eek:
Let the speculation begin
Now that you mention it, a fish-shaped object would be fun. How about a modification of that game where you have a wooden fish on a stick and have to flip in and guide it through the hole in the stick? To make the robot less jerky, the floor could be made of moving sidewalks (or rather, moving carpets)
EDIT:
as far as boxes go, having to build a staircase might be fun. Heck, we could use a giant slinky as a main gamepiece!
I’m sure this coming year’s competition will be quite different from the last, but I’m not sure how they can make it wildly different from the previous years. Unless they put a lazy suzan type table in the center. Ahah! We could shoot balls at targets along the perimeter. Considering they’re playing with floor textures in FTC, we might have some slippery spots (and maybe even a hill we have to pass over where it won’t work if we don’t have enough momentum). Centrifugal force would certainly be fun, but I suppose we can’t play with magnets too much if we plan to bring laptops (the cRIO flash memory would be fine as long as the magnets did not induce excessive voltage, which would be fairly unlikely. The only thing we’d have to worry about is eddy currents from all the aluminum in the robots.
Any more ideas for water games? (Let’s aim to make Chief Delphi a respected place for finding competition ideas)