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Quantumman 05-01-2007 15:44
Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 
Just a few thoughts, most combining things that have been already mentioned:

1) The hint is a picture -> the camera will be important again(and probably even more so)

2) No water or anything similar - safety hazard, bad for electronics, hard to setup.

3) There may be 5 different scoring pieces -> someone mentioned earlier that there have only been 5 unique scoring pieces in all ofthe games and the GDC said teams would buy more materials then they needed if they saw the materials list.

4) First is not likely to reduce the number of teams in each match - there are more teams this year and the competitions still need to fit inside of two days.

5) Well I can't come up with a decent fifth comment that hasn't been beaten to death but I wanted to keep with the 5 things theme.

keenanmolner 05-01-2007 16:15
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on another fourm where people sugested game ideas, some body sugested the idea of a merry go round like the ones that they have at playgrounds, just without the railings. they also attached a picture. the diamond plate circle on the clue looks exactly like the picture from the merry go round. i dont know what the five has to do with.

Tails19 05-01-2007 16:20
EGADS! I've Got It!
 
I think I may have deciphered the clue. Think about this:

In the computer language leet (1337), the number 5 = S

Mounted on a diamond plate

Blue background


and you get:


or



On the superman logo -
it is a letter S (5 in leet)
mounted on a diamond shape
with a blue background

The game has something to do with superman - what goes from there is anyone's guess - flying, moving heavy objects, heat vision (camera?), super speed, the list goes on.

Ian Jones
Project Manager, BraughtWurst Robotics, team 1571

StephLee 05-01-2007 16:28
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This e-mail blast was sent out a few hours ago:

Quote:
Originally Posted by e-mail blast
Greetings Teams:

SMC Pneumatics Bag

Please be advised that when you pick up your Kit of Parts tomorrow, the SMC Pneumatics Bag will not be available. Due to scheduling delays, SMC's donated products will be delivered directly to your Shipping Contact at a later date. More information will follow soon.

We're sorry for the delay in providing you with these products. We plan on having these shipped out as soon as possible and encourage you to use the pneumatics provided by SMC in your 2007 robotics design.

Purchasing 2007 FRC Game Pieces

Information on how to purchase the 2007 FRC game pieces will be sent to teams via email, on Saturday (1/6/07), after Kickoff. FIRST will make available the actual game-specific pieces to be used during the 2007 FIRST Robotics Competition season.

Go Teams!

How to purchase the 2007 game piece? Do they send out an e-mail like this every year, or does this mean the game piece is something not commonly available or easy to get? "Game-specific" pieces...that makes me think it's a variation on something we could normally get easily, but it has to be a specific type, like industrial-grade...whatever it is.

MikeDubreuil 05-01-2007 16:43
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Quote:
Originally Posted by StephLee (Post 548451)
"Game-specific" pieces...that makes me think it's a variation on something we could normally get easily, but it has to be a specific type, like industrial-grade...whatever it is.
It might mean that the game pieces will be unique. However, it might mean that FIRST decided to buy large quantities of the game pieces to reduce the cost and increase the quantity for us. FIRST received a lot of heat from teams for last years poof supply crisis.

For those that weren't around last year...the game piece was a round foam ball made by the poof company. You couldn't find them anywhere except direct from the manufacturer. The manufacturer would only sell them in bulk for a lot of money.

PS: I really want to see this thread over 1,000 posts before kickoff tomorrow :D

artdutra04 05-01-2007 17:04
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Quote:
Originally Posted by StephLee (Post 548451)
How to purchase the 2007 game piece? Do they send out an e-mail like this every year, or does this mean the game piece is something not commonly available or easy to get? "Game-specific" pieces...that makes me think it's a variation on something we could normally get easily, but it has to be a specific type, like industrial-grade...whatever it is.
The plot thickens! :ahh:

This is beginning to make the Jello-filled, inflatable clowns wielding Tammy Trimble's batons seem ever more so likely! :p

StephLee 05-01-2007 17:05
Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil (Post 548461)
It might mean that the game pieces will be unique. However, it might mean that FIRST decided to buy large quantities of the game pieces to reduce the cost and increase the quantity for us. FIRST received a lot of heat from teams for last years poof supply crisis.
That's a definate possibility, as well. I remember how hard it was to find poof balls last year.

Spider-Man 05-01-2007 17:08
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The phrase "game-specific pieces" is a hard one to decipher here. There are two possibilities that first come to mind:
  1. FIRST has designed unique piece created for the game, similar to the floppies of 1999.
  2. FIRST has chosen a specific object as the game piece and has special channels from which to purchase them.

One conclusion that is supported by this statement is that the game piece is not one of the more available pieces of previous years like a kickball, fitness ball, etc.

Maybe I'm just reading too much into it.

JaneYoung 05-01-2007 17:13
Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil (Post 548461)
It might mean that the game pieces will be unique. However, it might mean that FIRST decided to buy large quantities of the game pieces to reduce the cost and increase the quantity for us.
If this were to be the case, then this could be helpful to all of the teams, including the international teams who have the same 6 weeks everyone else does.

meaubry 05-01-2007 17:14
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thoughts -

andrew348 05-01-2007 17:14
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I think that the game will involve squares because they have not had squares since 2003 and they have used to circle and 1 triangle games since 2003.

Just will have to wait till tomorrow

StephLee 05-01-2007 17:33
Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by meaubry (Post 548478)
thoughts -
I think we're all going to go "Oh, duh" tomorrow when we see this picture in the game animation and figure out what all those little distorted shapes in the background are.

petek 05-01-2007 17:39
Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Spider-Man (Post 548474)
The phrase "game-specific pieces" is a hard one to decipher here. There are two possibilities that first come to mind:
  1. FIRST has designed unique piece created for the game, similar to the floppies of 1999.
  2. FIRST has chosen a specific object as the game piece and has special channels from which to purchase them.

One conclusion that is supported by this statement is that the game piece is not one of the more available pieces of previous years like a kickball, fitness ball, etc.

Maybe I'm just reading too much into it.
Or perhaps it is a commonly-available piece, and that only a few will be in play in the game? If they released the info on the piece before we know what the game is, many teams would go out and buy as many as they could find, wasting time and money in the process.

Spider-Man 05-01-2007 17:46
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I was looking around on the FIRST site while I was there to get the encrypted game manual, and I found something interesting about the game pieces. I clicked on the FIRST Store link and this is what it says:

Welcome
to the FIRST merchandise store

2007 FRC Game Pieces
Will be available for purchase on
Wednesday - January, 10th. 2007

coldabert 05-01-2007 17:47
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What if they add a 5th division?

This would allow less teams per game but still finish the competition in 2 days.


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