Originally Posted by Davie Byrne

Since last years game hint was incredibly obfuscated, i'm going to take a stab at it.

fish picture - one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish
one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish - writen by doctor seuss
doctor seuss - born in springfield mass.
springfield mass - Kurt russels birth place
kurt russel - in the film 'escape from new york'
'escape from new york' - had a sequel called 'escape from la'
'escape from la' - la has an ocean
la has an ocean - as does florida
florida - has orange trees

thus robots must be able to pick oranges from 8 foot tall trees, and place them in baskets.

am i close?

Originally Posted by pufame

Having way too much time and ftp space, our team has added a page to our website on the 2007 game and the theories we have. The reason I put this link here is because most of the theories stem from this picture.

http://team291.org/Team291/2007_Game.htm

The whole website thing isn't 100% done yet so there may be a few typos.

Also, I would have liked to post this entire thing onto ChiefDelphi just to keep all theories in one place, but it was just too long and we wanted to have lots of pictures with it.

Originally Posted by BRAVESaj25bd8

Someone touched on the earlier by saying there might be a lack of visibility for the drivers. What if the lack of clarity in Dave's picture is just showing how drivers will see this year's game? Perhaps the game will require precision but the drivers will be looking through some type of material that will make their view of this precise activity very unclear.

Originally Posted by litchfieldc (Post 538022)

Actually, I'm surprised that has never been done before. Maybe we'll need to install a camera on our robots, and the drivers stations will have displays placed at them. Then we'll need to drive our bots like the mini subs that pilot under water.

Originally Posted by Quantumman (Post 540556)

increases the risk of having a technical problem cause the driver to lose control during a match.

Originally Posted by Koko Ed (Post 424709)

You did not just go there, Dave.
You know how these kids are about thier liquid obsession.
Now were gonna have to hear about it for a whole year! :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by dlavery (Post 424701)

I figured that we may as well get this out of the way now. Everyone has been clamoring for so long for a water-based game (I am still trying for the jello-based game, but that is another discussion for another time...), that we had to just give in and give the teams what they were demanding. However, everyone involved with the game design process realized that the infrastructure modifications that would be needed were fairly substantial, and probably not the sort of thing that could be done on short notice. Therefore, we have modified our system to release this hint a full year in advance so that both teams and competition facilities can begin to consider how to contend with this twist on the game concept. So now you have something to do other than burning out all those brain cells trying to decipher the 2006 Official Game Hint!

-dave

p.s. you will find out what the banana is for in April.