What do you think will be the game next year?

That would be quite the challenge for engineers
Not only would the bot have to be bouyant, but you would also need to waterproof all of your powered components, like motors, the brain, and the battery.
Along with this, they would also have to figure out how to make a proper motor for moving in the water.

Odds are, Vex will not have any sort of water competition.

By hand or with their robot?

and all while upside down >:3

Robots should be able to handle a small amount of moisture - basically, just as long as it doesn’t actually get inside the brain, it’s fine.

We could put like small rafts to put the robot on and a motor to move it?

Okay. In the VIQ manual for this year:

See the blue box. 3 DRIVERS! Here is an amazing spoiler for everyone that VEX dropped for free! Match load interactions! Now we can already start designing the robot as we can see the similarity in Over Under. This is also just spectulation so who know might actually happen.

If we do need to launch Game Objects like in Over Under, What do you guys think the meta will be:

  • Puncher
  • Catapult
  • Flywheel
  • Trebuchet
  • Pnumatic Cannon lol
  • Other (comment below)
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Technically this is possible. You would need sevral speakers positioned at precise locations and playing a very specific frequency and have the objecs be VERRRRY light. like a miligram in weight.

I think: Water game isn’t next year, it’s two years from now. First, they might have the precursor to water game, Under Over, a flight-based dodging game, and water game might be called Under Through, a water-tunneling game. They need time to develop Vex V6 and V7, flight and water systems, respectively.

RECF already has a drone competition

Hopefully includes a neuralink to the Lama Glama brain

But in serious, hopefully next year there will be some extra challenge to scoring an object in a goal (like TiP or starstruck). The game elements will probably revolve around something similar to a cube shape.

Please no more barriers.

I meant like impossible to get to the other side. So you just can’t ram the other sides tower you have to launch things at it.

What if…

We’ve seen Spin Up (frisbee golf)

We’ve seen Over Under (soccer - or football for non Americans)

Summary

So where is Row Away… VeX wAtEr GaMe?

Oh, yeah, we can have like, a propeller, and there could be like, a raft that’s the size of the max robot size?
Engineers would have a great time trying to make a robot light enough to fit on the raft without it sinking, but also efficient enough to actually score.
It would be an interesting - and potentially expensive - season, for sure.

I’m thinking using air tanks to make the robot float, with three fans to push it (three also helps with turning).

I’ve been hoping for a while for a game that requires extreme precision, idk why. An X Drive meta would be wild

Water game but the water is pitch black. There are 5 zones you can climb up on which are elevated so that you can tell where you are.

Who says we make a petition to VRC to make a water game.

That is like the most goofy thing I have ever seen.

But then they would have to re engineer the entire like motors and brain and sensors and what not. Not to mention the problem with like a team making a buoyant boat. :upside_down_face:

By the way, my school is making an underwater drone in my robotic science class. So if anyone has any questions on water related robots just let me know.

it would be over under but in the pitch black water and no referees. New addition for @Gigahertz.t We will also allow llamas to stand around and spit at any people they see including drivers.

2024-2025 will be a water game, just without the water and the game.

In the club we made a bet where everyone would bet a dollar on what would be the next game in VRC and U, time is running out and the truth is I have no idea and I want to win those 25 dollars, so someone, ENLIGHTEN ME PLEASE!!!