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Or

http://www.morethantoys.com.au/shop/...25-degree.html
[It's model number appears to be 57-C8234]

Could bring us back to racing.

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I like your approach. I would tend to not trust it either.

Anyway, I'm really not getting much out of those Morse Code "translations."

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The time zone shift.
Our friends in Israel, the most important FIRST outpost on the planet, are cogitating the clue.

Emily has provided one of the more interesting interpretations, though I don't think that game would be "fan-friendly".

I think the KOP change to easily accommodate different attachments means that a modular robot that can perform unique functions, depending on the abilities of the alliance partners, may be in order this year.
This, along with the three people (okay, Dean is somewhat robotic at times :) ) in the picture, suggests a triad that can work together points to 3v3v3.

It's hard enough to explain the game to the casual observer with 6 robots. 9 robots?!
Well at least we may get the increased number of matches in a Regional or District that we have asked for, but the coordination of the matches will be tough. If this is the case, I predict 3:00 matches, with more time between matches.
Ohhh, the batteries! Ohhh, the scouting.

A scoring robot, a defense robot, and a third for a unique endgame.

Hockeyball? Basekey?
Umpires, referees, replay booths? I hope not.

I need to wrap presents.

Happy Solstice. The only holiday created by "God". http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...er/?tid=pm_pop
12:11 on 12/21 (almost a palindrome)
Waning gibbous.
Lunacy

I need to wrap presents.

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I think one thing that we're forgetting is the fact that FIRST is changing the KOP drive base. This may play a factor in what the game is.

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To me this seems like the best interpretation so far. What do you think the church and security might mean? And how exactly did you enter the numbers?

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Baptist -> Baptism -> Water
Sorry
Gotta go wrap presents.

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Looking at the previous posts, baseball does seem very possible. Just a question though, did any FRC game have an element that involved two robots from opposite teams doing something correctly (i.e. FRC tennis)?

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Not to offend anyone, but for all the people who are suggesting 3v3v3 or something of the sort: Have you ever been to a DISTRICT event? Space is already extremely limited as it is. It would be impossible to have 3v3v3, unless they drastically reduce the size of the playing field. Even queing areas would be a nightmare. I don't foresee 3v3v3 or anything similar coming for a very very long time. And if that change ever does come, half (probably more) of the high school gyms that are currently utilized for districts wouldn't be big enough to use anymore (Let alone offseason events...)

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As a person with a reasonable amount of experience at game design, I'm confident they won't go with three teams--it's almost impossible to make a fair game under those circumstances.

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Has anyone considered that the numbers could be a reference to a topic/post number on a forum? I looked on the first forum and found some things, as well as some dead ends.

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Do you think that maybe it will take a string of plugging the numbers into the calculator? Or would that work? Take your answer and go through the process again. Maybe it will make sense after that.

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I agree maybe not 3v3v3, but would 2v2v2 work? It's the same amount of robots, it just reduces the alliance size. It might work, then they could also reduce field size. But I agree it probably won't come around either way for a long time.

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I don't see why they would do that. It would be the same number of teams per match, and as Patrick Freivald said above, a game with three different teams is almost never fair. It would still make things crazy.

As for alliance stations - would one alliance have their teams on what side of the field, the second alliance have their teams on the other side of the field, and the third alliance have their teams split between the two sides of the field?

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If there's actually a 90lb weight limit, I'm going to be very frustrated. The weight limit is tough as it is; I can only recall one robot I've worked on in the entirety of my time in FIRST that weighed under 90lbs.

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I think FIRST is just messing us around with the church. the security probably connected to the US post office that is in front.
It was really really easy to find it on google earth, I just entered the pairs of numbers (i.e 8234/57) and took the first option