[BB] What did you do with your weekend?

FIRST General Forum
#1

http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-did-you-do-with-your-weekend.html

Very interesting story about the GP award.

Also, why can’t you un-remove that photo?

#2

Who would say that to anyone at a FIRST event(or anyone in general) much less an FTA?

Sad.

#3

Our first tease of the year ::rtm::

But on the note about the GP award, what do most regionals do to determine it? At Philly this year they had paper ballots for teams to fill out(i assume just for input from teams, not as the final decision), whereas at NJ I don’t believe there was anything.

#4

Fixed that for you.

#5

The Gracious Professionalism is a judged award. The paper ballots you refer to are reviewed by the judges.

#6

Well I did pick up one thing about the game next year. The game pieces don’t seem to be custom made. I am assuming this because BB last year before kickoff kept saying they were looking for suitable game pieces. Sounds to me like this year the game is being made to fit the game pieces instead of the other way around. Footballs?

#7

That isn’t the first hint for next year, got that a month ago :slight_smile:

#8

Interesting!

Really sad about the swearing in Seattle. Interesting though how they see everything. Taking this one back to my team and really push that swearing at someone or in general should never be tolerated.

#9

This might very well be possible, but I doubt its footballs.

From what I’ve seen, there is a pattern where FIRST goes from more complex piece to less complex, with '09 and '08 debatably reversed, and this pattern goes all of the way back to 2001.

#10

I hear the game piece is going to be WAGO tools.

#11

There’s another long-lasting pattern of alternating between using balls and something else, which works if you don’t consider 2009 to be a ball game. Also there’s a back and forth between being themed around a sport that goes to 2006(assuming you look at Lunacy as being moon-themed)

#12

These would make interesting game pieces.

#13

2008 was nascar themed, but Nascar isn’t what I immediately think of when I think of sports (not that is isn’t). Maybe we should look beyond traditional sports and more toward less know sports. I can easily see FIRST doing some sort of game that is heavily dependent on teamwork.

#14

Curling?

#15

Maybe that one game the Mayans played where you had to get the ball through the hoop up on the wall- Oh, wait. Aim High. Sorry ;D

Lacrosse? You score points in goals on the other side of the field, but they (game pieces) can’t touch the floor? Maybe every robot on your alliance has to touch a game piece before it can be scored.

#16

Cricket. That’ll also satisfy the longer-game advocates.

On the other hand, regionals will now take 6 weeks…:stuck_out_tongue:

#17

Water polo?

I wouldn’t be surprised if the game piece is some sort of PVC piece. Our team did an unofficial vex competition 2 years ago where we had to put 10" PVC pipes into a bucket at the end of the field. Endgame was a combo of rolling your bucket to your side of the field and hanging on a horizontal pole that was about 3’ off of the ground. I could see something like this but on a larger scale (and with minibots :slight_smile: )

#18

Three comments:

  1. They will never do a water game. That is the number one way to decrease the number of rookie teams that come back for year two.

  2. PVC pipes were already done by FTC and it was such an unpopular game. baybe it was the execution, but, from what i could tell, not many people were too fond of “get over it.”

  3. The concept of a water polo game (-water, -full contact-ness) seems plausible, and it would be interested to see it implemented.

#19

My brother always that they should do something with picking up, placing or moving pool noodles. But not in a pool. That would make field reset nearly impossible.

#20

The FTC game was TERRIBLE, but I wouldnt blame PVC.