Hello, all!

NoMythic just had its annual kickoff event, where we launched into build season and learned what we needed to know about the game this year. We decided to split this year’s kickoff into two parts, the first being on Saturday the 8th, and the second on the following Sunday.

We started off the day on Saturday by watching the kickoff video that explained the game. After that, we read over certain parts of the game manual to further understand the rules surrounding the game, field, and building requirements, and how you can score by shooting balls into different hoops or climbing up a set of bars (the higher it climbs, the more points your team gets,) and then met in small groups to talk about traits we would want for this season’s robot. Then, we played a game called the “Robot Paper Game” (or RPG) that allows players to build an imaginary robot that takes part in this season’s game to further understand the rules and what we want (and don’t want) for our robot this season.

On Sunday, we played another game of the RPG, then met as a team to talk about what we learned playing the Robot Paper Game and the strategies we gathered playing it. We then moved on to talking about what we want our robot this season to do, and decided that we want our robot to score high by focusing on climbing.

-Joseph