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LMAO!!! Pwnd!!!

Hey Sean, where is your usual disclaimer? :yikes:

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Say it ain't so!

I'm losing my nerve... I can't take the suspense any more...

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I hope the human player wont have to dance with Hula Hoops to bring points
but thats can be funy
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dun dun dun what does it mean?

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If it did have sumthing to do with hula hoops and batons, i think the human player would definently have more play in this game. I wuld love to hula hoop or twirl batons for my teams score! Maybe, we'll find out soon enough..16 days in fact! :rolleyes:

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Make your own decisions :ahh: :p

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I think it means that Sean is on Winter Break and has too much time on his hands, but thats just me ;)

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Man, if I were Dean, I'd hire a bunch of look-a-likes and impersonators to dress up in denim, walk around, and speak loudly in high traffic areas just to mess with FIRSTers' minds.


Look at the color of the hula hoops.. along with red and blue...there is also yellow and green! Four alliances this year! 3 vs 3 vs 3 vs 3. Okay.. we have the circles, where are the squares and triangles? Where is the water? What song possibly has the lyrics that involve baton twirlers?

Hey Dillard, you're slackin this year. Where is your rumor to add to this?

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I was thinking something similar except... 3v3v3 with red, blue and yellow being alliance colors and the green being either a 'vision hula hoop' or a community scoring object.

I think that since so many regionals are full and have 40~64 teams attending that FIRST might be looking at a way to get more matches in... Maybe even 4v4, just a thought...

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The four hula hoops maybe explains something else.
During IRI, Dave dropped a hint in the judges room (maybe Amanda remembers, but she was midway thru the one donut she ate and might not remember)

It didn't make any sense until I saw the picture of the hula hoops.
He said "Big Girls Don't Cry When They Can Stay At Luxury Hotels", and then
he left. I thought he was referring to Amanda (she was stuck at a Motel 6).

Well, the FOUR SEASONS is a very nice hotel chain, and Frankie Valli and the FOUR SEASONS had a hit song called BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY. Maybe the FOUR colors are linked to the FOUR seasons - 4 teams per alliance or four alliances in each match?

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The one problem I see with 4v4 is this:
If FIRST advanced 8 alliances into the finals it would mean 32 teams in the finals, some regionals don't even have 20 team attending. So maybe FIRST is thinking 4 alliances of 4 teams each for the finals (16 teams in the finals).

At Battle at the Border 2005 we did not have 24 teams so the finals consisted of 4 alliances of 3 teams. Is there a similar rule for regionals?

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The hula hoops are an interesting clue.

Think for a minute. The three shapes in the FIRST symbol are triangle, square, and circle.

A few years ago I think I heard someone say that one of the games included a square that was used to do something in the game.

Last year, the tetras (triangle) were used in gameplay. This year they could use the last symbol in the FIRST line-up and use a circle...a hula hoop!!!

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they the square bins, then the balls, then the tetras.