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Well, that poem wasn't the game hint last year. It was numbers, that people then converted to letters, thinking that was the direction to go with the hint. They made it into something they wanted it to be, not what it really was:

I'm looking through last year's game hint thread now, and I remember towards the end someone did figure out pyramids...

EDIT: Here we are, people connected the poem to the singer Seal, and then to the 'Great Seal of the United States' featuring...a pyramid =P. That was only the first connection. Someone later used an online anagram solver to show that there was an even deeper hidden meaning, and then a binary converter to form a pyramid-like shape.

But, I digress. Back to 2014's hint!

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Once you interpreted the number across digit pairs in pi, the poem became obvious (and was found by page 5)

Pete Rose seems interesting, since last year's poem said "A Rose Kissed"

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How about we focus on THIS YEAR'S hint...and not go making hints out of things that they are not.

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Ha

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In the 1963 World Series the LA dodgers played the NY Yankees. The dodgers had a season record of .611 matching with the second set of numbers. They also had Derrel Griffith who was #26 and started on Sep. 26 1963. 1963 was. The 50 anniversary of the Yankees was 1963. The 50 year anniversary of zip codes and Pete rose is 2013.

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Did anyone notice the reference to a water game in the FTC kickoff video? 1:10-1:20 at http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/ftc/game. Maybe a water minibot that must race up a small incline. Hence, the one water bottle on the stage.

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I think you're reading too much into it. People never guess the whole game-- what would be the fun in that? They guess just enough that we can go back after kickoff and tie it all back together.

Here's a list going back to 2010 of game hints and correct (and important) guesses. If the fancy takes me, I might go back further later.

2013:
Smaller Robot, 3-color game pieces http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...8&postcount=51

2012:
Guesses it's a small ball game http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=40
Guesses there are multiple goals, and it's like Aim High http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=19

2011:
Literally first post is guessing that all three shapes of the FIRST logo will be used in the game http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...04&postcount=2
Post guessing that the game will involve climbing a pole http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...55&postcount=4
2010:
Soccer ball, part is a ball return mechanism http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=40

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Enough with the water game jokes, this thread has majorly overdone it and taken the fun out of it.
Water game will not, can not happen with our current hardware (as if anyone here didn't know that). the electronics are obviously not compatible, 2.4 Ghz wifi doesn't work underwater, and the roboRio wont work either. Go join RoboSubhttp://www.auvsifoundation.org/found...tions/robosub/

Now, a UAV aircraft competition, on the other hand... Air Game!

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Okay, except that the smaller robot wasn't from the hint - It was from the KOP dimensions being smaller, as released by AndyMark.

Also, the Logo, and the song 'Locomotion' (by the singer in the pole photo) also let people easily guess the name of the game.

Also, the first hint, an image of a middle gate, let people guess that there would be separate zones.

But...Back to 2014's hint!

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Please kindly get over it. The water jokes have been around since before you or I was involved in FIRST and they'll probably continue for a long time. At this point water game is as much a part of the FIRST culture as GP is.

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Unknown to most, there WAS an actual official FRC game in the past involving water...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rug_Rage

*cough*Back to the 2014 hint...*cough*

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If you look back, the examples were just to provide evidence that game hint discussion actually does tend to produce something relatively close to helpful, as it seems that everybody became terribly pessimistic about peoples' ability to guess parts of the game this year.

But I digress, as you've said, time to get back to the 2014 hint.

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I don't think anyone else has noticed this, but when the hint is plotted on a Cartesian coordinate plane it creates a triangle. When plotted in 3-d it shows a shape similar to a square. If someone manages to find a way to make it a circle it could be very possible that this years game could be something to do with 3 different shaped game pieces like Logomotion.

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When graphed in wolfram alpha it does form a circle...

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Pretty sure that the hint just gives people something to put their energy into while we *patiently* wait for January 4th.

In other words, the hint is supposed to be extremely obscure so that you can just see how close you may have gotten once the actual challenge comes out. I doubt anyone has ever gotten any real, even minuscule advantage.