Trivial FIRST ...FIRST is not trivial!

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#24

This was my initial thought. I"m such a nut, I’d be interested in it just to see how much I don’t know about FIRST, then proceed to astound everyone else when I actually know the answers to odd FIRST questions : If it goes into production this year or even next year (assuming you can end up with a good profit margin, etc), I could probably even turn it into a team-building event…nothing like bonding over geeky trivia.

I can’t see a lot of questions in FIRST Media. The 1114 one was pretty well-known by the community, but most media exposures are more obscure. I’d rather see a FRC Games category, including game objects, rules, etc.

Also, for team specific questions…
What team is -somewhat- famous for having a smoking robot at the 2006 Great Lakes Regional? :ahh:


:smiley: We’re just cool like that.

#25

With response to how much I’d spend…honestly not alot. The last time I had enough people around with nothing to do to play trivial pursuit was a family gathering like 5 years ago.

Also, the idea of having all teams with ? is generous, but thats a ton of ?'s and alot of teams don’t really get heard about outside of their area. I’d rather see more questions on teams that are semi-well known.

Just a bit of constructive criticism(I hope it was constructive) and good luck with it.

#26

I’m going to try to answer all your questions in one massive block of explanation :slight_smile:
NOTE: what i posted above is what we were thinking about as categories, and before we actually set anything in stone

We haven’t decided placement of specific things, such as games, but we will DEFINITELY include it somewhere. I don’t see it as a separate category, just a large chunk of a different one.

The media category expands into public exposure, including questions about FIRST place, and more public things in FIRST. Its probably not going to be “in the media” as much as it sounds, but more general and surprising as a whole :smiley:

The FIRST in general category will most likely be the one with game “stuff” as i’ll call it.

And as far as the team section goes, it will have something including every team, completely unbiased, and more general knowledge about them. Its the section that actually gave us the idea for this game, so its our primary goal to make this section.

But right now, before we write any questions (or set anything in stone), we’re more concerned about the interest level and what a reasonable cost to YOU is, before we start to actually develop the game. Thanks for the suggestions :slight_smile:

#27

I think an expansion pack or even a FIRST Jeopardy would be a good idea. Maybe one that can be played on the computer or on the tv. I would pay between 10 and 20 dollars depending on what “style” you went with. Maybe you could have safety rules as a category? There are some pretty well-known rules that would be good.

This sounds like a great idea. I have a feeling that you will only be able to sell it within the FIRST community though. I can’t wait to see where this goes. Please keep on putting up updates so teams all the way in NH can buy them!

#28

Now THAT I could go for

I remember seeing something on these forums that seemed very similar.

If it has a really nice GUI for it and has a giant question bank I wouldn’t mind paying 10 bucks for a download hosted from a team’s website. The questions could also be suggested and validated by admin. This would also allow you to have video, picture, and sound questions. IE: Picture of a robot with its number erased…

#29

I think there are open source Jeopardy! client programs available, if I recall correctly, that allow this kind of thing to happen. Being able to purchase (or just use) question sets would be kind of cool? Though that doesn’t really seem like a good fund raiser anymore.

I want to play FRC Monopoly…

#30

We recently discussed where we saw this going, and found that the categories were very similar (in some cases) and noted that there were some technical issues as far as questions were concerned. Because of this, we decided to change the categories (slightly).
The NEW categories
**Games: **all about FRC games, ranging from rules, names, and various other game related topics; example: Hexagon Havic was played in what year? (1997)
**Engineering: **questions about engineering, robot specs, gear ratios, etc.; example: What were the dimension restrictions for the 2009 game Lunacy? (38" by 28" by 60")
**Programming: **ALL about programming; example: The popular LabVIEW software was introduced to FIRST teams in what year? (2009)
**Pop Culture: **Questions about FIRST teams and the “FIRST culture,” including its involvement in society (merged with the media category); example: What company does Dean Kamen work for? (DEKA)
**Non-Technical: **Questions about anything not relating to the robot, including common knowledge, awards criteria, and anything else FIRST related (primary focus is awards criteria); example: What percentage must your website score to get website excellence? (80%)
**All About FIRST: **Questions about/relating to FIRST; example: What year was FIRST founded in? (1989)

In addition, in the best interests of costs and restrictions on printing of cards, we decided to cut the count in half, so there would be 500 question cards, instead of 1,000. We also discussed adding a “all about FIRST teams” expansion set later on, depending on the success of the game above. :smiley:

#31

That was 1996. Years are important people!

#32

1997 was Torroid Terror, which led to the “No intentional detachment” rule due to some teams scoring using parts of their robots that detached.

#33

After a very long and thorough discussion on our team, we came to the conclusion that some of the categories were lacking, so we slightly changed the categories to fit everyone’s interests :smiley:

Games: all about FRC games, ranging from rules, names, and various other game related topics; example: Hexagon Havic was played in what year? (1996)
Technically Speaking: questions about engineering, programming, robot specs, gear ratios, etc.; example: What were the dimension restrictions for the 2009 game Lunacy? (38" by 28" by 60")
**Miscellaneous: *anything FIRST related; includes the media and pop culture categories; example: What company does Dean Kamen work for? (DEKA)
Non-Technical: Questions about anything not relating to the robot, including common knowledge, awards criteria, and anything else FIRST related (primary focus is awards criteria); example: What percentage must your website score to get website excellence? (80%)
All About FIRST: Questions about/relating to FIRST; example: What year was FIRST founded? (1989)
Go Teams!: all about teams, with special emphasis on their accolades and achievements; example: the first team to win the chairman’s award was who? (191 X-Cats, 1992)
*RCA wasn’t introduced until 10 years later, thus the national chairman’s award was the only chairman’s award

I hope these are better :slight_smile:

#34

Those look pretty good but why is there an asterisk after chairman’s award?

#35

Hey, I just wanted to connect this thread to the Interest in Trivial FIRST thread. Please vote there and help us find out how many will need! Thanks!

#36

On the contrary - I believe this is doable:
I feel like Trivial Pursuit could only be played by FIRST-ers… but I do like it. I think a category for every team is a difficult one and rookie teams will be uninformed and left out… maybe the only team to win National Chairman’s or stuff that’s like - indesputable - but categories are difficult to make that remain applicable.

Recalling Game Rules excludes teams who did not play that game… Maybe include founder facts - things not everyone would know but, they’d be equally uninformed. Thus, everyone would learn…

Speaking of Monopoly:
If you made Monopoly… FIRSTers would appreciate it but anyone could play it. You could make properties Regionals and Boardwalk could be Nationals… the pieces could be the robots from the animations and Chance and Community Chest cards could be based on rule violations and winning awards and such (and have other names I haven’t thought of.)

#37

You could make Chance and Community Chest into Red Alliance and Blue Alliance and railroads could be FIRST founders.

#38

The railroads could be Divisions from the Championships. :slight_smile:

#39

It would make more sense, in my opinion (at the risk of some drama) to make the color groups teams rather than regionals. Regionals aren’t bad, though. As long as the Oranges are the best. :smiley:

I was thinking railroads would equal drive systems (skid steer / mecanum / holonomic / swerve) but I like divisions better :smiley:

#40

“Go” could be kickoff and free parking could be the pit area and have a robot instead of a car on the space. But what about jail and “go to jail”??

#41

Go to jail= Penalty box?

#42

How about making jail the offseason? And then there are the utilities…

#43

I was thinking that IRI would actually be Park Place, with Championship being Boardwalk. What else can compare?

Utilities could be… motors? KOP stuff? cnc machines?