Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

Ive got it! Diamond plated golf balls!

Interesting photo though, weird game hint..

Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

I really like that idea! A big center goal in the middle, and low goals at the corners.. if not for 2007, then maybe for beyond.

Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

Maybe 5 gold rings?

Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

With one ring to rule them all.

PS: i just finished watching LOTR

Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

JOHNNY 5 IS ALIVE?!?!?!?

idk, im stumped, this is gonna ruin my christmas..lol

Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

Wild guess - A diamond plated Lazy Susan (free spinning disk for the 80's & 90's children) in the center of the playing field five feet in diameter, or perhaps only big enough for 5 kit robots fit on. The robots need to get up on the platform to score. The swirls in the blue are to simulate taking the image while on the spinning platform.

Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

If you turn the image upside down and sharpen it:



You can see something at the bottom left corner. Looks like darth vader or some time of monster to me. Sticking with the star wars them the object at the right looks lto me like Nute Gunray.

Maybe, I've just watched star wars too many times.

Re: I believe I figured out part of the clue.
 

I think it means only drivers with red/greed color blindness will be able to compete effectively in this year's game.

Don

Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

Check out the pics at these links. It has the image reversed in every direction, including colors, and each stresses the pic differently.

http://www.geocities.com/spbeckett/possibly.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/spbeckett/i...d_possibly.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/spbeckett/Background.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/spbeckett/backgroun_2.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/spbeckett/i...Background.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/spbeckett/i...ackgroun_2.JPG

EDIT: If they don't work right away, try back later and they should.

Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

I like it as well. This would be a very nice field layout and would make for some pretty good gameplay. It reminds me of 2005, just with half the goals removed.

Re: I believe I figured out part of the clue.
 

ya... i think u might be on to somthing.

just a random thought here...

what if there are several goals with lights above each that change for each different period, that shows where an alliance can score.
it could also show whos deffending and scoring(like aim high)

~Alex~

Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

I googled "number 5 is alive" and got

Hm... perhaps multi-layered surfaces on the playing field?

I've never seen Short Circuit, but the plot description I found on imdb.com here...
http://imdb.com/title/tt0091949/plotsummary
...makes me think that there will either be emphasis on the autonomous period (perhaps one at the end to signify the robot coming "alive"?) or else more emphasis on the programming aspect in general (i.e. tracking via camera?). That stop light idea we spotted, oh, 200 posts or so ago, would probably go to support that.

I like the "5 of diamonds" idea a lot. I like the idea of the lazy Susan even better, and I'm thinking maybe something that looks like this:


For a little while I was convinced that I saw two hands reaching for the diamond plate in the blue, in the lower right- and left-hand corners, but I guess I'm wrong. It would give the human players something to do, though, if they had to pick up the tube objects and place them on their robots' arms to take to the revolving lazy Susan and place on goals like this: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...&postcount=252

That's about all I've got. Lastly, I like the idea of there being five "safe" spaces for robots to get to in the end, and there being one "odd man out". The only reason that I don't like this idea is also the reason I don't like the "free for all" idea--where's the gracious professionalism? I think we have to think of this game in terms of how teams can work together to accomplish goals. In Stack Attack it was all about coordinating which robots placed which tetras where to get the best combination; last year it was all about which robot would guard/score in which goal the best. If this game were to have a lazy Susan, or some sort of high-altitude stacking, I think a nice "teamwork" element would be to see if you could have a robot to grab onto the lazy Susan and rotate the goals away from other teams.

Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

Nah. Team 842 (who beat MIT at underwater robotics in another competition) has issued an open challenge. This is not specifically FIRST related, and is not the official game.

You're right. Sometimes, however, the two robots would combine in an "alliance" to beat on the third robot. This kept happening, and it was decided to add another robot and make alliances official.

Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

Elgin brought up the idea that the lazy susan that has been talked about may be refering to vex influences in this years game. I feel that this should be brought a step further due to the diamond plate present in this picture and that we may want to consider the Diamond State Vex Challenge that will be in Delaware later this january.

Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 

The Great Figure
by William Carlos Williams

Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
firetruck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city.

Perhaps something to do with the Imagist movement?