Re: Official 2005 Clue Thread
 

Good catch, either that's Dean's first post on Delphi, or another CD pranxster. If it is, I always wondered if he missed out on all the traffic buzzing based on his creation.

Hi Dean ole buddy!

p.s. thanks for signing my shirt :p

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There is a lot of speculation going though this thread and some of it is probably on the mark, and some of it not. I haven't read all 400+ posts yet, but there is somthing that I noticed that I haven't seen in a post yet.

Pi is the Greek letter "P" (duh!) and the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet. Looking at the clue, maybe "you" is the Greek letter Upsilon and "me" is the Greek letter Mu. Interestingly, Mu is the 12th letter of the alphabet and Upsilon is the 20th letter meaning that Pi is located exactly halfway between them. Looking inbetween the letter Upsilon, Mu and Pi are the following letters:

Mu M
Nu N
Xi X
Omicron O
Pi P
Rho R
Sigma S
Tau T
Upsilon U

This gives us the letters N, X, O, R, S and T.

Don't know if this means anything, just thought it was interesting.

Re: Official 2005 Clue Thread
 

Maybe the scoring system is based off the difference of you and your opponent and multiplied by pi and both alliances recieve that score.

Or maybe its the difference of the two alliances scores and the value of pi
-Pat

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I still think that its going to be 2 teams of three. If it were 3 teams of 2 this leads to teams easily being able to gang up on a single team. Although it could happen I don't like the idea of 3 teams.

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Teams of three are practically guaranteed. The 2005 Championship Eligibility says there will be three Regional Champions at each regional event.

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The 2005 Eligibility is referring to the 2004 tournament which had 3 winning teams. Two primary competitors and an alternate.

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The dark clouds (in my brain) parted and a beam of light cascaded down and then a voice speaks....
The darken returns in my mind and the state of confusion engulfs me again.
:eek:
Lord Dumpling?
I am really, really, really scared.

BTW- JELLO is the dessert you eat first!

Re: Official 2005 Clue Thread
 

Actually the part of that page that says 3 regional winners per event has been altered - earlier it stated "to be determined based on the 2005 game." Now that this has been changed, it can probably be safely assumed that the 4 teams do not work together, because if they did 4 teams would win. Instead 3 teams win, which could be similar to last year with two competing and the alternate, or all 3 teams of the alliance out in every round. This would make for some interesting matches, especially if a robot broke during a match and a team was only able to go out with 2 or even 1 bot.

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Hey Brandon, can you track the IP of LordDumpling? :)

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I really can't see FIRST making an alliance in the elimination round play with all robots with no contingincy(spelling??) for a broken robot.

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There are always three winers and if people are going on the assumption that there are 3 things on the field than it would more than likely be 3 teams of 2. That would make more sense than having 2 teams of 3 because in elims if a bot broke there would be no replacement team. And it says that there is only 3 winning teams per regional, which also adds to the 3 teams of 2 instead of the other previously stated.

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Is there any chance that the field could be shaped like a baseball diamond, and in the center be a circle in which the robots start?

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Makes sense if they make a non-contact game that limits the possibility of damage during the competition.

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You must also realize that 2001 the game was almost no contact or roughing between the robots and it still had an extra robot so i think that you still need the extra robot, that is why i'm sticking by my thought of an extra robot.

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I can envision this...something like 2v0+2v0, in effect like how the FLL fields are set up (one robot on one side, another on the flip side, and little or no interaction between them). Especially since FLL alumni are now well into the FRC phase of their lives. Redabot and Redderabot are on one side of the field, separated from Bluabot and Bluerabot by a fence or something that keeps robots from crossing over (or under). The challenge would then be adding some kind of offense or defense, to keep the game interesting--something like a ball- (or donut- or inflatable clown-) sized chute to the other side.