Originally Posted by HumblePie (Post 1203748)

Intrigued by the KOP dimensions, could be interesting if not a typo. We believe that the GDC works more than 1 year out, so I dug up this post from last year:

"On a slightly unrelated note, there has been a lot of speculation re: the return of minibots. Why not apply the "miniaturization" principle to the grown-up bot? The 38 x 28 footprint has been somewhat sacred lately, and it's possible that the GDC had issues with so many chassis designs being "recirculated" from Rack 'n Roll last year. The new CRio is smaller, why not the robots? A smaller footprint would force many teams to rethink their entire packaging scheme."

Smaller robots might make a 3 alliance match feasible, or are we missing the obvious witht the multi-colored push pins, and the GAME PIECES come in 3 colors (red/yellow/blue)?

Originally Posted by Sean Raia

It could be both Seal, and Meatloaf.
I don't believe that's what they were going for, but maybe there is something in common between the two singers.

Originally Posted by LightSpeedIII (Post 1203808)

So, a few of the team members here (myself included) have made a link between the line "A DINNER, MISSED".
If you go back on the FRC Blog, you will notice that they had a blog post about a dinner for the FRC staff, Frank lists those who attended in the post.
We figured that someone was missing from the list, thus "missed", so we looked into it and found out that the FRC staff has 19 people on it, the list contains 18 (including Frank, who posted it). So ChiefDelphi, the question is... Who is missing?

Originally Posted by LightSpeedIII (Post 1203808)

So, a few of the team members here (myself included) have made a link between the line "A DINNER, MISSED".
If you go back on the FRC Blog, you will notice that they had a blog post about a dinner for the FRC staff, Frank lists those who attended in the post.
We figured that someone was missing from the list, thus "missed", so we looked into it and found out that the FRC staff has 19 people on it, the list contains 18 (including Frank, who posted it). So ChiefDelphi, the question is... Who is missing?

Originally Posted by coalhot (Post 1203802)

How about this? You miss a dinner, yet you don't lose any weight. Sounds like something is being removed, yet it's not affecting/changing anything.

Originally Posted by BigJ (Post 1203813)

Sounds like the "second clue" was the FRC staff list?

Edit: Where is your 19-person source from?

Originally Posted by LightSpeedIII (Post 1203808)

So, a few of the team members here (myself included) have made a link between the line "A DINNER, MISSED".
If you go back on the FRC Blog, you will notice that they had a blog post about a dinner for the FRC staff, Frank lists those who attended in the post.
We figured that someone was missing from the list, thus "missed", so we looked into it and found out that the FRC staff has 19 people on it, the list contains 18 (including Frank, who posted it). So ChiefDelphi, the question is... Who is missing?

Originally Posted by karomata (Post 1203812)

Can you provide a link to this entry, I can't seem to find it...

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV (Post 1203817)

Another reason to believe that the size has changed is they have been very reluctant to post details about the new belt system. You would think FRC/AndyMark/Gates would want teams prepared for the change but we haven't seen anything at allow outside of the announcement that it will be belt and that teams will be able to do an all wheel powered 6 wheel drive. If they told us the belt lengths we could quickly learn that it was for a non-38" long chassis.

I'm guessing 28 x 28 robots.

Originally Posted by Roger (Post 1203801)

Lighthouses? When it snows == build season? IR lights?