I noticed that lots of the games involve balls as game objects. It seems that every two years there is a vex competition that involves balls as game objects. The years are by World Championships.
So my guess is that next years game is going to involve balls as game objects. The trend may continue with every other game having balls as game objects.
I donāt know why, but Iām feeling an unpredictable scoring object and a challenge similar to Clean Sweep, where you have to get the scoring object to the opposite side of the field, like goals or something.
A water game isnāt going to happen (MOST LIKELY)ā¦ but I think it would be cool to have something that āflowsā like water, like marbles or something.
I think that a robo-soccer style game would be a lot of fun. It would force multiple designs to be created for teams to play the game effectively(Goalie-bot and Scoring-bot).
āVEX Marble Mix.ā That would be interesting if the field were just completely full of tiny plastic marbles. Teams would have to make light robots with tank tread to glide over the marbles, or heavy ones to push huge piles of marbles into the opponentās path.
EDIT: This would reduce violent pushing/blocking gameplay, since 2 robots pushing against each other would just shovel marbles out from underneath themselves with their wheels, and get both robots stuck in a hole.
A multiple level field where robots have to climb to each level for different game objects and scoring styles
Example
1st level: put balls into tubes/pipes
2nd level pick up boxes and triangles and put them in the matching troughs (or build a ramp to the next level)
3rd level (Top): Hanging objects on wires/ropes
I remember doing the stacking of boxes and the hanging on wire before.
Quite boring after a whileā¦ coz the game play became very stale after a while.
That was actually done a couple years ago in round up, there were some heavy bases that could be scored on. The metagame that year was to dump the bases under a larger ladder structure in the field, so they couldnāt be descored
I knowā¦ my teams were involved in Round-upā¦ and we even had a GER-lookalike robot to dump bases in.
But the FRCās Raise the Bar game was differentā¦ there wasnāt any place to lock the bases.
And if you snatch the movable goalpost back to your own zone, you doubled the score.
It definitely gave a lot more game play than Round-up.
But donāt get me wrong, Round-up had its own elements to make the game interesting as well.
That would get pricey for the field thoughā¦ because each level will need a platform to support 4 robots the weight of the floor and game objects ā¦
Not to mention taller field walls so you can not drive off the edgeā¦
And what about elevated fields? By the time you get to the third level you wouldnāt be able to see your robotā¦ assuming a ceiling of 24 inches per level and 36 inches for the elevated sectionā¦ you would be 9 feet off the groundā¦ this also would not allow you to lift very highā¦ you would also have to have the walls be removable so you can reset the fieldā¦
Not to mention unsafe because you would need a ladder to take your robot off the top levelā¦
