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also, the picture is using the RGB color scheme, not CMYK or anything else. this confirms the use of 3 colors for the camera to use.

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who me? :confused: ;)

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Round 5?

Dante's Inferno:

5th circle: The Wrathful and Sullen. These souls are submerged into the river Styx, which surrounds the city of Dis. The wrathful emerge from the dirty waters while the sullen are completely submerged. Phlegyas will take Dante and Virgil across this river in his boat. Here Dante talks to Filippo Argenti, an old acquaintance for whom he has no pity.

That pictures looks like water surrounding a "city?"

edit:

I've also been thinking about dlavery's "LMAO" (laughing my ___ off) user title.. so I looked around. There is a card game called MAO that looks interesting to think about. 5 seconds per turn, sometimes 5 cards dealt, "point of order.." A game with no rules, basically.. I guess FIRST probably wouldn't do that?

MAO -> China -> Chinese checkers.

I keep guessing, and the more I gues the more I realize that I have absolutely no idea.

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Neil Diamond wrote "im a believer" for the monkees and it was covered Smash Mouth and this version was used in the animated feature "shrek" shrek has 5 letters. this shows that the clue is obviously a frame from the kickoff video. most likely its just the final countdown to kickoff, so its merely to throw us off.

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I plead the fifth. :yikes:

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The scoring object, therefore is 6x9. It'll take 5 bots battling and 1 backbot compiling information to figure that out!

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Mao does have rules...I have been taught them from old members of team 237. You just aren't told what they are. :) I might be able to start up a game at kickoff or at the CT Regional this year if anyone is interested.

As for the game hint...usually, when FIRST posts hints, the meaning isn't THAT hidden. My guess...all you are looking at is a screen shot of Dave's animation. A blue inner tube scored in a goal that has a diamond plate bottom with the point value of said goal painted right inside of it. (i.e. 2004 when point values were painted right on the balls).

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I think the little guy on the right is just Dave Lavery laughing at us :P

(sorry about the shape, I can't trace very well)

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Last year's clue was pretty darn smothering of the real meaning.. but you are certainly correct.. someone may have already figured out what this "5" means..

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Eh, for my 2 cents, I go with the innertube thing mentioned about 10 pages back. We have to put plastic cylinders (there's a photo posted somewhere of Dave holding one) into these recepticales made of torii (is that the plural of torus?) that have diamond plate in the middle - and there are five such goals.

Yes, this is my first and last post in this thread.

Don

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How did this thread grow so fast? :ahh:

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Here are my thoughts:

The number reminds me of a the countdown number you see in old films, perhaps you have 5 seconds to get somewhere in auto mode.

The blue seems to indicate a water element.

The diamond plate is usually used on first ramps, so I think we will be seeing some sort of ramp.

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i hate the idea of water but what about a 5 gallon water bucket?

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cause the hint isn't what we want.

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going off the idea that the 5 looks like the movie countdown idea:

Countdown, think of it as "timing out" like in boxing or something. Perhaps something to do with match length, or maybe the 2001 time multiplier is back.