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I've asked myself the same question multiple times... I think the only way we'll find out is through Kickoff. Everything else will just be speculation :/

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This makes a little sense. The capping from the tetras, the threes that have been showing up.

Maybe combined with the height stuff from stack attack:

Each alliance has three platforms with a stacking base. The sides are divided somehow. Each side attempts to stack up as many <insert game piece> as possible, and if a stack has a special game piece on top at the end, it's worth more, like the ubertube from 2011 (but capping). Would make for interesting strategies, like capping the opposing sides ubertetra (or what have you) with a non-uber piece to reduce their points, or somesuch.

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Nope.

Stack Attack very very very quickly devolved into a game of destroying the opposing alliances stacks and becoming king of the hill, at all costs. Wedges were legal as long as you didn't actively lift them. Flipping was common. Destruction was great. It's kinda like battlebots from the point of view of the boxes, and a giant mess from the point of view of everyone else.

A match video of Stack Attack, courtesy of Andy Baker. 111 will win the championship by sitting on the ramp for the entire match.

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It's been 5 years since the game used giant balls (FIRST Overdrive).

I wonder if the End Game might involve lifting a large ball up high (8'?) and holding it there, similar to a seal balancing a ball? If that's too easy, maybe we have to climb on a platform first, but can't start until the last 15 seconds, like the minibot launching in LogoMotion.

That would be a great visual; 4 to 6 robots quickly climbing on platforms, then giant balls being hoisted up high!

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Tupperware tossdown.

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I did know that part. We used Stack Attack as our week-in-a-day. I meant with the stacking height stuff as intended. But, as is obvious, just throwing it out there.

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Here's some food for thought... I would think that someone had already thought of this, but I haven't seen a reply on it so here goes:
I'm working off of the "Pi cipher" because it seems very legitimate to me. I mean come on, it rhymes. It can't be a coincidence...

A ROSE, KISSED
SINGER GREAT

Seal inevitably relates, with his Grammy for being a great singer and his seemingly relevant song about a rose and a kiss.

I thought of the different definitions of "seal", and I made a crazy connection with the Navy Seals. The Navy Seals' emblem, by the way, has an ANCHOR in it, which could be considered a HOLDING WEIGHT.



The only thing I can't connect here is the A DINNER, MISSED part.

Maybe I'm stretching it a bit now, but this all seems to connect. And I don't think I have to state the obvious game type that this would point to... :P We'll be swimming with the fishes!
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And something unrelated... I stumbled upon this newspaper that has "seal" mentioned in various different places around the "Dinner Missed" article, like right above what appears to be an emblem containing an anchor in it, next to the article about shark-bitten survivors and the one about the swimmer who planned on plunging into the English channel.. Ain't that funny?

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And where does the Navy operate? It all comes back to one simple answer, Water Game!

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You bet.

IIRC it was in a blog post somewhere as part of the mitigations regarding the Einstein incident.

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I'd like to quickly bring your attention back to this hint. I know an altered image when I see one. The red pin on the bottom left was definitely not in the original photo. It is a perfect circle, and it lacks the luminosity that the other pins have. If FIRST took the time to make this pin red, it must be for a reason. So, I second what someone said about the fact that there are three different colored pins, possibly suggesting 3 alliances, or maybe this could mean something totally different. But it certainly means something.

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Or it's just a flat push pin.

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A flat push pin wouldn't create that heavy dark shadow on the bottom left quadrant of the pin, and wouldn't look so flat, as they are actually rounded. But if I'm wrong and it is a flat pin, why the difference?? :confused:

And either way... It looks very phony.

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Spot the phony!

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If you look closely they are actually normal thumb tacks.



Here is an example:
http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl...r:10,s:0,i:118

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Looks like a flat pushpin with a matte finish... it does not appear to be Photoshopped.
Case closed?