Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

Correct. What we want is wild, baseless speculation. The more improbable, the better! What else do we have to talk about?:rolleyes:

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Actually, I like this train of thought. Think of game pieces being the old style kiddie life preservers used in swimming pools (long before water wings were invented) that have to be placed on 5 poles with different point values (higher poles score higher points). Another kiddie reference to this toy that you'll stack the tubes on.

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Stack 5 in a row and get bonus points. Other patterns get different points (like Connect Four).

Mannie

Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

Weren't the steps to the platform in 2004 diamond plated?

Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

The small steps were, and the sides of the larger ones were. Nothing you could drive on was diamond plate in 2005, and then the ramps in 2006 were.

Re: 2007 Serious FRC Game Hint
 

funny that they posted it 5 days before christmas if you count today. so i guess we'll be checking in the morning for 4.

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What do you get from the "5"?

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Well if you want improbable,

Discordiansm, a weird joke/religion that is based off the goddess Eris and Chaos has a thing called the law of fives. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord...e_Law_of_Fives)

So the five represents Discordiansm. This tells us the game will be completely random and will be constantly changing.

The "Sacred Chao" is a symbol of discordianism. This symbol include the golden apple of Eris and a pentagon in a Yin and Yang form.

This says that a pentagon will be the central game piece.

The high scoring game piece will be the golden apple of Eris, there will be only one of these on the field and all teams will have to fight over it for high scoring.

And of course everything including timing will be based off of the number five as the law of fives says "ALL THINGS HAPPEN IN FIVES, OR ARE DIVISIBLE BY OR ARE MULTIPLES OF FIVE, OR ARE SOMEHOW DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY APPROPRIATE TO 5."

So there we go. Everything to do with the number five. I'm not sure how this helps, but hey, I thought of it today and decided I should post it.

-Greg

Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

hmm, i was playing around with 5 being a countdown... someone mentioned it being perhaps 5 days till the next clue... well if you look at the days properly:

5 days from now puts us at the 26th
4 days from that puts us at the 30th
3 days from that puts us at the 2nd
2 days from that puts us at the 4th
and 1 day from that puts us at the 5th

one day before the kick off...

what if they will release 1 clue on the 26th, the 30th, the 2nd, the 4th, and then one last one on the 5th right before the kick off? just to keep us guessing more and more? I also realized that last years clue...

five 'bots tangling with pasta
a game piece obsessed with a shovel's show
and seeing Montana's green heights

five 'bots
pasta
game piece obsessed with a shovel's show
green
heights

5 hints in those lines, 5 days for them to release another clue, 5 hints till the kick off

we have yet to see another 4 parts to the hint! :ahh:

imo :)

Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

The image when downloaded is 366x274 pixels....
This would be nothing if it translated to a nice number in another unit but it comes out to 5.08x3.81 inches or 12.91x9.67 cm. Perhaps some clever clue maker had some fun with dimensions.

Can anyone make anything of it?

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This picture has a large number 5. On a diamond plate Circle

Enhancing on this fact...

The Circle of Fifths represents the 12 different key signatures of the 12 different major scales.

So taking the idea of the idea of the 12 scales, and looking at the diamonds on the diamond plate.... diamonds are mostly, if not completely, comprised of carbon. The Atomic number for Carbon is 6, half of 12.

Maybe this is just a reiteration of how many robots will be on the field at once?

Maybe the batons will be used this upcoming year?

Just a couple things to think about.

Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

Like that (--^) type of thing?

Interesting..

Given past indicators, all you innertube guessers may be right.

Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

Yes, but the ring-posts are robot features defined by a special rule, and rings may be placed on the robot only in ways defined by other special rules. Ring points are multiplied by a factor determined by the level on a special field structure, resembling a stair-stepped pyramid, to which that robot can climb at the end of the match. Higher levels will accomodate fewer robots and give larger ring-point multipliers. The highest level holds only one robot, and its multiplier is five.

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Diamonds typically crystallize in the face-centered cubic crystal system and consist of tetrahedrally bonded carbon atoms.

Boxes and Tetras!

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Id like to point out that it may be significant that the five is infront or ontop or the diamond plate depending on your perception, which in FIRST is synonamous with the wall seperating the drivers and bots. This may mean that the drivers will be either on the field or elivated, an interesting idea that might be difficult to do safely.