Looking for this year's Triple Tortuga and/or Dukes of Stronghold

I a lot of fun with last year’s Triple Tortuga Contest the Dukes of Stronghold GIF Contest. It was really the highlight of my week getting the submissions and discussing them.

I have been trying to think of a contest or two to run this year.

But I haven’t had any good ideas.

The best I can come up with is a “I didn’t see that one coming” GIF contest where folks would submit GIFs like of something crazy happening on the field (maybe something like THIS << I still laugh every time I watch that clip).

I don’t know…

Is there interest in such a contest?

Does anyone have a better idea?

If we can come up with something good, I’ll see if I can get my wife to agree to let me give out $10 gift cards again each week.

Cheers,
Dr. Joe J.

gifs if robots falling while attempting to climb?

+1

Broken ropes and subsequent robot swan dives have some promise of matching the triple tortuga.

A robot firing off a full volley of fuel into the boiler, getting smashed by defense, and unloading their hopper into rapidly ducking Pilots.

Stay safe on those airship kids!

The Flying Squirrel:

Any robot that falls off of any Rope, for any reason, judged on how entertaining the descent is. Bonus points for re-climbing the same rope.

Games of chicken?

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Pilots forgetting to release ropes or use the reserve gear.
Amusing streams of fuel shot somewhere other than the boiler.
Robots that rely on the pilot to pull the gear up from them being forgotten(and completely stuck) on the lift.
Tortuga on top of a gear or fuel.

To replace the dukes of strongholds the best gif of a robot violently flipping over and for the triple Tortuga all robots tipped over.

At a Week 0 event, during Autonomus, there was a robot that went full speed across the field, into the Airship.

I expect a lot of robots to crash into their own Airship during Autonomus. Going across the field was a surprise.

What about dropped gear lift handles. An alliance could technically drop 3 and be unable to score anymore gears.

No, it is supposedly not possible. FIRST theoretically fixed that in Team Update 14.

At Kettering Week 0, out of 3 matches I watched, I saw 2 gears get flung up 10 feet in the air when trying to be put on the peg.

Robot to get the highest gear fling contest?

Robots patiently waiting at the base of the airship, being ignored by pilots watching their own robots.

My first thought as well. Bonus points for falling on alliance partners, I guess.

The peg getting caught in someone’s robot and the human player trying to lift both

Gears are going to end up in robot hoppers and it will be interesting and funny how they get there. I think a reward for most gears carried at once might be good.

I also think we will see more than a few pilots desperately trying to avoid streams of fuel being shot in their direction.

ALL 600 FUEL on the field at one point in a match! This includes the 500 FUEL from the hoppers and the other 100 from the feeder stations.

Shot not on counting that :smiley:

A constellation of gears on the carpet, especially in a small area (probably loading station or in front of a lift).

Joe, there are so many things that can go wrong with this game, but none of them quite as epic as the tortuga. Any such contest is going to have to be a complete judgement call. To categorize at all, I have these three suggestions:

  • Good things (e.g. forty fuel in the air headed towards a boiler, three gear or 40kPa autos)
  • Bad things
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  • Field/crew faults/breaks/spills
  • Robot/team faults/breaks/spills

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