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Whoa!!!!!! :eek:

What's this?

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thats really, really cool
where is that image from?

*edit*
nevermind, you can click on it!

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Pay it no mind. It's a hoax.

It may link to ifirobotics, but it's hosted at imageshack.com

FIRST wouldn't italicize FIRST on an image like that, anyway. And there's no reference to "Nautilus" nor "underwater" anywhere on the ifirobotics.com site.

Had me fooled for a second, though. I will give you that.

--Petey

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Haha, why is there a blade missing on "waterproof fan"? :D

I guess Petey beat me to it, but you wouldn't believe how dumb I felt after looking through ifi for 2 or three minutes.

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[monty python] Then, the human player jumps out of the robot, taking the opposition completely by surprise! [/monty python]
:D

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You'd think that having Dave Lavery as one of your team's key mentors would give you some slight advantage, or perhaps some hints. Hah, that's a good one!

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It was a meant to be funny April November Fool's Day joke. ;) (If that holiday even exists... )

As for the source of the picture, I was bored in study hall in school yesterday while listening to the FIRSTcast episode where JVN was talking about "designing a waterproof speed controller", so I was inspired to make the picture. If there really was a waterproof speed controller, I don't think that it would have a fan on it. I thought the fan would give it away...

Oh well, everyone needs a good joke every so often. :)

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In response to this post by Mr. Lavery.

Only two acronyms show up in that paragraph, one being "GDC" and the other being "MST" both being used fictionally. Now "GDC" also stands for "Game Design Commitee". So using inductive reasoning I'm assujming that MST is either the acronym for the object we must manipulate or the acronym of the name of the game.

New and Pressing!
A search for MST reveals that it is also an acronym for microscrewcap tubes, or tubes used in science labs. This is way to blatant to be a game object, isn't it?
http://www.evergreensci.com/lh/mst.htm

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Related to my guess in my first post of this thread, I found this post from the 2006 game post early this year. This is an interesting link because team 116 is none other that Daves team. ;)

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I was at the convention centre in Toronto, and someone at a robotics booth who sets up the fields said a step may be involved.

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hey i just found something on Google
http://www.team116.org/2000/_doc/tmup1.pdf

apparently Tammy is/was in charge of kits for first up till at least 2001 that published on line that i can find so far.

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Good find!

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Wait, what is this?

Is this an old game (2000 was before I came into FIRST.)

--Petey

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I did some more googling, and it looks like you're right.

BTW, you can find most of the old rules at http://www.first-a-holics.com/competitions/

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While attending the Denver Regional a thought (perhaps the first in sometime) was buried deep in my brain. It recently surfaced. This could be the year for "Robots on Ice"! This could explain the waterproof items and a baton does looks somewhat like a hockey stick. You always see a picture of Dave in a hooded parka. There is a rumor out west that teams 60 & 254 are working on studded snow tires. Thank goodness we have Wayne G. in Phoenix.

Ken