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The product was added yesterday, so it didn't 'exist' until yesterday.

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Added by First or just some cd member's idea of a joke?

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Just random typing with thumbs on a typical smart phone keyboard. Or maybe there was a tune going through the Tweeter's head at the time. I wonder what it was...

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Darude- Sandstorm :D

du du du du du du

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Appears to be slightly-scrambled GPS location for a castle in France called "Château de Robert le Diable". Look it up in Google/Wikipedia. The castle tower looks just like the tower in the teaser video. The actual long/lat of the castle is 49.3396, 0.9597.

The 1st half of the code, 932849, gets rearranged to something like 49.2893, and the 2nd half, 238209 get's rearranged to 0.9(something). It doesn't match exactly; there is some additional "tweak" missing to get an exact match on the longitude/latitude. Probably has something to do with the length of the video (57 SECONDS) since longitude/lat can also be represented in degrees/minutes/seconds. (Since the tweet mentioned watching the video again). Maybe have to add in some multiple of 57 seconds to the long/lat, or something like that.

What does it mean? Not much. It just keeps alive the concept of a tower and/or defensive stronghold.

VaxHeadRoom

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This would make so much more sense if the number was 8675309.

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I've got two approaches not yet fully explored in this thread.

FIRST:

This is the real trick, try typing that on a full-sized keyboard. You only need three fingers on each hand (index, middle, and ring fingers), and if you line each hand up correctly with the corresponding spot on the keyboard and mash them repeatedly, that's exactly what the resulting number looks like:

9802349802349
9823498234980
0982348239834
9823490823940
9234908982349
9328490238209

Three fingers each from two different hands...
Definitely two distinct alliances, and three robots on each alliance...
Could be 13 game pieces that can only be scored once...
Or maybe just 13 scoring events that happen to occur during the game unveil video, and which robot scores each one...
Left hand scores 6 times, but right hand scores 7 times...
Right hand wins! Maybe. Depends on whether or not there are different point values for different kinds of scoring...

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SECOND:

Alternatively, we can look at the number of times each digit appears within the so-called random number:
1 --> 0 times
2 --> 3 times
3 --> 2 times
4 --> 1 time
5 --> 0 times
6 --> 0 times
7 --> 0 times
8 --> 2 times
9 --> 3 times
0 --> 2 times

This gives us our second-step number as either 0321000232 or 2032100023, depending on whether the 0 digit is low or high. We could also drop the zeros, giving us either 321232 or 232123 depending on whether the zero digit was low or high, and these two numbers are curiously mirror images of one another.

0321000232 and 2032100023 could be phone numbers, but neither one gave me any particularly promising results when I searched them.

#321232 is a deep plum color, whereas #232123 is about 23 shades of grey darker than pure white (also two shades lighter than pure black, and one shade lighter than the standard "black" color defined in the 2015-edition FIRST Style Guide).

If we mash 321232 and 232123 together, we get either 321232232123 or 232123321232. Both of these numbers seem fairly dead-end based on my searching, so I think Imma go with my first approach above as being the most promising explanation out of these two.

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As the game manual was just posted, it is NOT the password. At this point, I'm thinking it's just a bunch of random numbers.
#frankrolled

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According to Frank, it's random. Something tells me we should believe him for our sanity.

http://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc/blog/numbers

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So sad, it's like finding out there is no Santa Claus.

I feel bad for Haley Dunn, the person that created the number. Can you imagine her watching this thread going "But, but I just made it up?!?"

I'm going to award JesseK the winner with this post:

Ok, Haley, you are up, tell us what song you were listening to? ;)

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If you notice, the characters the post uses as thousands separators are both the comma (,), and the period (.). While groups of three digits in a single string of numbers are separated by commas in the US, some countries abroad, or "across the pond" if you would, use the mighty comma.

There are a total of five commas and one period, therefore only one of the six robots will be "across the pond" and their alliance members will have to save them. The "pond" is a moat. The other alliance members are moat alligators. In fact, all robots and team members are alligators and CMP will be in the everglades.

It's a water game.

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That's funny. I think that was a typo because the comma is right next to the period on a standard keyboard.

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Or when you find out you freshman year game is Recycle Rush...

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IMO it was worse for the seniors, who will never have another chance at a good game as a student. I'd rather have been a freshman than a senior in 2015.

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Oh come on, Recycle Rush wasn't THAT bad... Was it?

Anyways, Frank posting something talking about how those numbers weren't actually a game hint. But of course, if he's saying it, than it MUST be a game hint :rolleyes: