Well, last season we offered the Chester Challenge Tiki to the first team that capped the center goal with the vision tetra in autonomous mode.
And nobody could do it…
So we are looking for the new 2006 Chester Challenge.
And we ask- what is the hardest (yet possible) task in this year’s game?
I’ll announce the parameters of the Challenge on Saturday. I have some evil ideas. But you might have something even better.
WC 
(from your evil friends at team 25)
Hmm… Maybe put all 10 balls though the cnter goal in less than, say, 7 seconds?
How about put all 10 balls in the center goal in autonomous, without using a dead reckoning system? It is the main objective once again, or the highest scoring option.
I think it depends on the accuracy of the camera to green light system this year, but in the past, using the specialized autonomous sensory has been the supreme challenge. I’m going to guess Donut is off because I think that 10 in the center in autonomous can be done w/out dead-reckoning.
I’ll put my money on being able to fire a ball into the goal while moving. That means taking into account a lot of factors.
I thought the goal would want to be autonomous again… if not, I agree it should be firing the ball in while moving. But why keep it that simple? They should also have to shoot it from their own end of the field, so it’s a half-field shot at least.
I suggest either auto tracking the center goal with the CMU cam and putting a ball in while the robot is traveling at full speed at full speed or and alliance the has every robot put in at least one ball during auton.
how about the farthest a robot launches a ball and successfully lands into the center goal 
I know that historically the tiki goes to one team.
But what about one that goes to the first alliance with a functionally perfect autonomous score of 50 points? You’d have to have all three robots sink all ten balls in all three goals, but I’ll bet there’ll be an alliance to get it done.
the hardest task this year is the same as every other year:
getting the engineers out of the crate so you can close it up and the FedEx guy can haul it away!
“Let me just bolt on this one last sensor, and test it…”
Why couldn’t an alliance score 90 points in autonomous mode, wouldn’t that be harder, yet possible ?
–Mike
I agree with this. The time it will take (I think) so shoot the 10 balls will make it difficult to do in 10 seconds…and that’s assuming you shoot immediately when autonomous starts…which is somewhat impossible.
actually if all alliances shot then there would be 90 points scored in autonomous
I think having an autonomous score of 100, all 30 team balls in the center goal and having the 10 point bonus will be one of the hardest to achieve part of this game.
To beat our team :P, and to do “everything” possible in the game… like every other year.
The thing is, is that really possible? Can any alliance shoot all thirty balls into the center goal in ten seconds? My gut instinct says you won’t see that happen. Ten, though, is entirely possible.
i think (if i recall are math from lastnight’s meeting) the farthest away you can be with the limit of 12m/s and still make the shot (no wind resistance) is about the halfway line. maybe a little more but no much.
30 shots at the same 30 inch space in ten seconds seems like a midair collision to me. I agree with Billfred it just doesn’t seem possible.
I actually have difficulty believing 10 in 10 seconds is possible without violating 12m/s with the first few shots.
Anyone that scores on the high goal while moving parallel to the plane of the goal while moving at least 5 fps. We aren’t even going to try…
You could make this even more challenging by making it the first team to score more than five times per match using the above conditions.
Human scoring will be harder than it might seem. We mocked up something last night and practiced to see how easy or hard it will be and I’ll be surprised if anyone can score 10 consecutively. Scoring is achievable - consecutively 10 times in a row will be a challenge from that distance and with robots running around.
with a spinning wheel shooter you can launch balls as fast as you can hopper them into the input side
Ive personally seen a soccer ball shooter like this that launched them about 40 feet, and if you fed it fast enough you could have several balls IN THE AIR at the same time. It literally fired a stream of soccer balls.
One problem with this (I mentioned in another thread) the wheels do slow down when you fire a ball, so you either need a powerful motor to spool them back up between shots, or you need a big flywheel.