2016 FRC GAME

[Dragonking]

Any ideas on what game we will have in the year 2016. I figured I'd skip 2014 and 2015 and let someone else do that one. I think it will be a water game that involves shooting frisbees at a foam basketball while climbing a pyramid which is balancing on a bridge. Half the field is under water. Other parts are frozen solid. There will also be a minibot which must stack tubes to get bonus points.

[Joe195]

On Regolith

[jlmcmchl]

Watch right before champs in 2015, someone will make a new thread about this, and then someone else will point to this one.

[efoote868]

Watch right before champs in 2015, someone will make a new thread about this, and then someone else will point to this one.

I'll do my best to remember if you can.

[Calvin Hartley]

I'm not sure if you were reading the 2014 thread or not...

[fr05ty27355]

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/37153691.jpg

[Dragonking]

Of course I read the 2014 post. That is why i decided to be original and start this thread 3 year in advance instead of two which was mentioned.

Also I noticed someone decided to post a 2020 thread. I chose 2016 because some people reading this will still be students by that year. By 2020 everyone will have graduated.

[dag0620]

:rolleyes:

Do I dare say more?

[Calvin Hartley]

:rolleyes:

Do I dare say more?

The smiley you used is blue. Water is "blue". Obviously you're hinting at a water game.

[vishnum]

Now that we know the 2016 game will be a water game on regolith, let's start a 2017 thread. :D

[cjl2625]

I'm fine with the 2014 thread, but this.... come on.

[mman1506]

underwater game. Did I just blow your mind or what

[Ernst]

Any ideas on what game we will have in the year 2016. I figured I'd skip 2014 and 2015 and let someone else do that one. I think it will be a water game that involves shooting frisbees at a foam basketball while climbing a pyramid which is balancing on a bridge. Half the field is under water. Other parts are frozen solid. There will also be a minibot which must stack tubes to get bonus points.

I took the first letters of each sentence:

Aiowgwwhity2 IfIs2a2alsedto Itiwbawgtisfaafbwcapwiboab Htfiuw Opafs Twabamwmsttgbp

Becasue we're looking for the 2016 game, which ends with 6, I added 2 and 3, two factors of 6, to get 5. The fifth string of letters, "Opafs", brings up this (http://blink.ucsd.edu/_images/sponsor-tab/BFS/BFS%20OPAFS%20Division) image on Google as the first result. The first name on that chart, Don Larson, when searched on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Larsen), although it is a different Don Larson, appears to have been a baseball player. Don was born on August 7, 1929. On that same date, Babe Ruth tied the record for grand slams in consecutive baseball games. The total calories of all possible components of a Denny's Grand Slam, ignoring seasonal fruit and yogurt, because you don't go to Denny's to be healthy, is 2710. Google Streetview (https://maps.google.com/maps?safe=off&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45512109,d.aWM&biw=1280&bih=899&q=2710+w+state+st&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x88051bcb8a9e1561:0x17761a31e24569c8,2710+W +State+St,+Milwaukee,+WI+53208&gl=us&sa=X&ei=ARl0Uf68C4WrqAHN5oCADA&ved=0CDAQ8gEwAA)of 2710, W State St, Milwaukee WI, shows a blue school bus. "The Big Blue Bus" happens to be a nickname of the Kansas City Royals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Royals) baseball team.

This is a pretty deep hint from the GDC. For all I know, it could go deeper. I can only draw one conclusion from it.

Water Game 2016.

[Calvin Hartley]

I took the first letters of each sentence:

Aiowgwwhity2 IfIs2a2alsedto Itiwbawgtisfaafbwcapwiboab Htfiuw Opafs Twabamwmsttgbp

[snipped]

This is a pretty deep hint from the GDC. For all I know, it could go deeper. I can only draw one conclusion from it.

Water Game 2016.

The way you noticed all of that correlation is stunning. It all makes sense when you explain it like that. How could I have not seen it as a water game?! You have my respect, sir.

[karomata]

I think the GDC is gonna wait on doing a water game until we all give up on thinking that it is possible to have a water game... They tend to outsmart us like that...

[rlowe61]

I took the first letters of each sentence:

Aiowgwwhity2 IfIs2a2alsedto Itiwbawgtisfaafbwcapwiboab Htfiuw Opafs Twabamwmsttgbp

Becasue we're looking for the 2016 game, which ends with 6, I added 2 and 3, two factors of 6, to get 5. The fifth string of letters, "Opafs", brings up this (http://blink.ucsd.edu/_images/sponsor-tab/BFS/BFS%20OPAFS%20Division) image on Google as the first result. The first name on that chart, Don Larson, when searched on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Larsen), although it is a different Don Larson, appears to have been a baseball player. Don was born on August 7, 1929. On that same date, Babe Ruth tied the record for grand slams in consecutive baseball games. The total calories of all possible components of a Denny's Grand Slam, ignoring seasonal fruit and yogurt, because you don't go to Denny's to be healthy, is 2710. Google Streetview (https://maps.google.com/maps?safe=off&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45512109,d.aWM&biw=1280&bih=899&q=2710+w+state+st&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x88051bcb8a9e1561:0x17761a31e24569c8,2710+W +State+St,+Milwaukee,+WI+53208&gl=us&sa=X&ei=ARl0Uf68C4WrqAHN5oCADA&ved=0CDAQ8gEwAA)of 2710, W State St, Milwaukee WI, shows a blue school bus. "The Big Blue Bus" happens to be a nickname of the Kansas City Royals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Royals) baseball team.

This is a pretty deep hint from the GDC. For all I know, it could go deeper. I can only draw one conclusion from it.

Water Game 2016.

Not sure where you get water from all you wrote, to me it points more to Baseball. I can see "Wiffle Ball" into square, round and trianglular targets. Just as shooting baskets you had to deal with trajectory, the disc have trajectory, try hitting a wiffle ball into a target. You have to have the correct drop and hit placement on the bat. Put the bat into the KOP and put into the rules that the ball must be hit cleanly....not from a cup or pole like "T-Ball" would make for an intersting game. Balls back onto the field like "Break-Away" where they were put on rails and dropped into the center.
Something to think about.
Also, I agree with talking about 2016.....far enough out that GDC probably isn't actively working, yet this year's Freshmen, will be Seniors that year.

[Calvin Hartley]

Not sure where you get water from all you wrote...

You didn't notice the water hints? Here's one. Put the red letters together and see what they say. Sometimes the hints are buried pretty deep.


I took the first letters of each sentence:

Aiowgwwhity2 IfIs2a2alsedto Itiwbawgtisfaafbwcapwiboab Htfiuw Opafs Twabamwmsttgbp

Becasue we're looking for the 2016 game, which ends with 6, I added 2 and 3, two factors of 6, to get 5. The fifth string of letters, "Opafs", brings up this (http://blink.ucsd.edu/_images/sponsor-tab/BFS/BFS%20OPAFS%20Division) image on Google as the first result. The first name on that chart, Don Larson, when searched on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Larsen), although it is a different Don Larson, appears to have been a baseball player. Don was born on August 7, 1929. On that same date, Babe Ruth tied the record for grand slams in consecutive baseball games. The total calories of all possible components of a Denny's Grand Slam, ignoring seasonal fruit and yogurt, because you don't go to Denny's to be healthy, is 2710. Google Streetview (https://maps.google.com/maps?safe=off&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45512109,d.aWM&biw=1280&bih=899&q=2710+w+state+st&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x88051bcb8a9e1561:0x17761a31e24569c8,2710+W +State+St,+Milwaukee,+WI+53208&gl=us&sa=X&ei=ARl0Uf68C4WrqAHN5oCADA&ved=0CDAQ8gEwAA)of 2710, W State St, Milwaukee WI, shows a blue school bus. "The Big Blue Bus" happens to be a nickname of the Kansas City Royals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Royals) baseball team.

This is a pretty deep hint from the GDC. For all I know, it could go deeper. I can only draw one conclusion from it.

Water Game 2016.

[Matt C]

I'm predicting a mixture of tubes and balls.

[dlavery]

By then, water games will be so passé. I am calling it now - zero-gravity game!

http://academic.greensboroday.org/~regesterj/potl/Mechanics/Gravitation/kc-135.jpg
http://cdn3.standard.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/max_800/2011/06/01/story-02-1b-vomit-comet-2nd-84792.jpg

-dave



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[efoote868]

Time to analyze every single letter.

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But what could it mean!

[Whippet]

By then, water games will be so passé. I am calling it now - zero-gravity game!

http://academic.greensboroday.org/~regesterj/potl/Mechanics/Gravitation/kc-135.jpg
http://cdn3.standard.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/max_800/2011/06/01/story-02-1b-vomit-comet-2nd-84792.jpg

-dave



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And this single post will be dissected, examined, reworded, reinterpreted, lawyered, encoded, and/or inspected for clues by all of us for the next four years. This should be interesting.

[T.Ricky]

I like the idea of skipping the water game and going to a flying game. 120 lb quad copters would be really fun.

On another note, a wiffle ball as a game piece would be quite a challenge to deal with if it needs to be thrown through/into a goal.

[Calvin Hartley]

Maybe it'll be zero-g bowling.

[Arrowhead]

By then, water games will be so passé. I am calling it now - zero-gravity game!

http://academic.greensboroday.org/~regesterj/potl/Mechanics/Gravitation/kc-135.jpg
http://cdn3.standard.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/max_800/2011/06/01/story-02-1b-vomit-comet-2nd-84792.jpg

-dave



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The first image is of a plane
Plane has 5 letters in it so I shall take every 5th letter from the sign begin held in the second image, giving me kscheey
If you google this backwards, as yeehcsk, the 5th link leads to this web page
http://code.google.com/p/phrase-segmentor/source/browse/trunk/python/english.syllable/syllable.07
The 5th word in this list is ADAPTER
When putting this word into google images, you get this image from Wikipedia
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PS3_Rock_Band_3_MIDI_Pro-Adapter.jpg
The 5th button at the top of the page is Metadata, which when clicked on leads to a table where the 5th entry has details about ISO speed rating
A Wikipedia search of ISO speed rating leads to this
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:ISO_speed_rating
The 5th item in this list is of ISO speed rating 125
When you click on this link, it leads to this page
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:ISO_speed_rating_125
Which has images of children playing with water.
Must be a water game.

[Kevin Sevcik]

I like the idea of skipping the water game and going to a flying game. 120 lb quad copters would be really fun.If by "fun" you mean "absolutely terrifying", then yes. They'd be so fun I'd be screaming my head off. I dare say that competition sounds fun enough that I couldn't handle being in the building while it was occurring.

Here's your slogan: "FRC 2016: a game so fun, you'll wet your pants."

[Rick TYler]

I noticed someone decided to post a 2020 thread. I chose 2016 because some people reading this will still be students by that year. By 2020 everyone will have graduated.

You wish...

[RoeeVulcan]

My vote is for an air game. flying robots!

[Robert Cawthon]

By then, water games will be so passé. I am calling it now - zero-gravity game!

http://academic.greensboroday.org/~regesterj/potl/Mechanics/Gravitation/kc-135.jpg
http://cdn3.standard.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/max_800/2011/06/01/story-02-1b-vomit-comet-2nd-84792.jpg

-dave



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Love it! We have gotten cooling fans for years in the KOP. We could use them to push ourselves around in zero G. Or were you thinking zero G in a vacuum? :yikes:

[DampRobot]

I'm still waiting for a game where robot compete in giant tubs filled with jello.

[pmangels17]

What about a game where there is a steel ceiling, and robots have to quad-copter themselves up, then adhere to the ceiling with a magnet, and then begin the game. The fun part? As the match continues, teams can try to hang on the upside down pyramids, and then if robots press a certain pressure sensor, the ceiling turns into a wall, and the robos on the pyramid have to readjust.

[E Dawg]

Real Steel
:yikes:

[Gregor]

Reported Herywilliam.

[Niezrecki]

Any ideas on what game we will have in the year 2016. I figured I'd skip 2014 and 2015 and let someone else do that one. I think it will be a water game that involves shooting frisbees at a foam basketball while climbing a pyramid which is balancing on a bridge. Half the field is under water. Other parts are frozen solid. There will also be a minibot which must stack tubes to get bonus points.

I can't tell if this is serious or sarcasm. Either way it made me laugh.

[AllieS4246]

I am waiting for the year FIRST asks us to make 2 Robots per team. Single Driver per bot, and no way for one bot to suceed with out the other... Its only a matter of time, right?

[Robert Cawthon]

I am waiting for the year FIRST asks us to make 2 Robots per team. Single Driver per bot, and no way for one bot to suceed with out the other... Its only a matter of time, right?

How about a vex bot, maybe tethered to the main bot, that is needed to do some part of the scoring?

[cad321]

How about a vex bot, maybe tethered to the main bot, that is needed to do some part of the scoring?

Yes! And with the vex cortex (dont use the VEXpro ARM9 and keep the costs lower for teams) operating on 802.11 wireless, I'm sure there would be a way to connect to the bridge on the main bots.

[SJohnTrombley]

Since the game speculation threads have been getting earlier and earlier every year, I figured I'd continue the tradition this year by posting the 2016 game speculation thread before the 2015 game was even released. Whit that being said, I don't think it'll happen, but I want another mobile goal game, I love Zone Zeal, and it'd be fun to see FIRST do something like that again. Let me know what y'all think.

[mrnoble]

Useful.

[brandon.cottrell]

I'll go start the 2017 game speculation thread so we can really get ahead of schedule.

[chsahit]

I think we all want to see the floor from 2009 come back.

[Twins Inc.]

I think we all want to see the floor from 2009 come back.

Yes. The Floor from 2009 AND Zone Zeal.

[Calvin Hartley]

Déjà vu (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123962)

[Pault]

Déjà vu (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123962)

Double Déjà vu (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=116295)

[orangemoore]

At this point in time we should really start the 100th anniversary game thread. I already have some good ideas

[Calvin Hartley]

Double Déjà vu (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=116295)

Touché. Apparently I forgot about this, there must be too many early game hint threads.