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Or maybe that wrong date given is a hint to this years game scoring curve for the winning alliance. Like last year he gave out a hint, ax^2+bx+c to confuse people. Maybe instead this year the loser gets thier score and the winner gets thier score + 20% of thier score. :D

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So does this mean the return of "plow" bots? ;) lol


BTW, dave I have to commend you.. If I was in your shoes (pretty big shoes to fill btw) I would be going mad looking at all these guesses and not being able to say a darn word!!

Let's hear it for self-control!!! :cool:

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I saw this one coming. ::shakes head:: At least this one wasn't a hot dog joke.

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Not FIRST, but Spirit!

And you call yourselves geeks.


Wetzel
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Opportunity is next.

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My math is absolutely correct. Are you sure about your assumptions? ;)

-dave

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24 days to go!!!!

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Dave does have the best math in the world.... remember last year's kickoff?

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oh.....maybe.... in 24 days.... something will be announced by FIRST!
Like one of those brain teaser clues they drop on us to make us crazy.
:eek: :ahh:

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Oh Shoot!!!
You're probably right!
They're going to blast something that'll have us writhing in our little daily lives for a whole week until kickoff!!!!
We'll catch ourselves playing Tic-Tac-Toe just to pass the time!
MAN!
I'm already going crazy enough, but this...this...this is just too much!!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! :ahh:

EDIT:
Aw Shoot. Just as I suspected, Dave is feeding us more info related to other stuff than FIRST, and seeing how we run about like a bunch of hens. Cool though.
This should answer the big question:

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/newsr...20031202a.html

January 3rd is the Day when the Spirit is Scheduled to land on Mars.

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we will have to build life size ninjas to fight in an arena, oh but wait, thats not in the spirit of first....sooooooo, they'll have to "strategically disable" the other ninja

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...and it maybe a clue. The Lego League theme is "Mission to Mars" and many times people have pointed out that FRC clues maybe found in the FLL game.
(and Dave keep referencing that date)
:eek:

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Maybe rocks will be the next game piece...
or giant foam rocks...
And we'll have to put them into the "Research Storage" bin (55 gallon drum)
the rocks may be light, but each one is shaped a little differently...

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There's no reason the game hs to be a KOTH. Our rookie year (2000) wasn't a KOTH match. KOTB (king of the bar) yes. The bar thing really made it a bit harder.

I hope to see something like the guesses from last year. NERF Footballs. Maybe hang from a goal post. Kick feild goals & run for TD's. OR. Kill the bot with the ball, 1v1v1v1v1. Every bot for itself. You get points for how long you can hold the nerf.

Or if you can put inflatable footballs into garbage cans with monkeys drinking pop underwater. Now THAT would be fun.

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Hasn't the goal of the past few Mars missions been a search for water?

And what is snow but frozen water?

I know that a water game would be a huge challenge for everyone (especially us programmers...a third axis of motion would be awful :(), but that just might fit with Dave's hints...

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My point was that I think Dave's countdown is just for the Mars Mission. Not anything FIRST related. But we'll see.
Yeah, they're searching for water, among other things.
And please, I beg of you, don't discuss water-game related ideas here, save that for the other 5 water game threads :o

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I hope this years game is really and truly multi-faceted. I hope it involves a lot of make or break strategy and is involved. Don't get me wrong, the past two years games have been fun but clearly only involved one aspect, brute strength. Last year we had these boxes, but since the ramp was worth so many points it was almost no point in going for the boxes and just ended up as a pushing match on the ramp. That is fun for a while, but it does not involve tons of strategery. I would have liked to see the king of the hill ramp being worth less points thus there would be lots of ideas and innovation on manipulators and arms and grabbing mechanisms and the game would be more fun and intense and strategy related. this year, i hope there is a highly strategic game maybe reverting back to some past games with putting some sort of object in a trough or high goal or somehting. something that involves some manipulation and points that are equally distributed.