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Diamond Plate and 5 Hrmmm. Well I don't forsee water game, its still out of reach for most FIRST Venues, even in an instance of a kiddy pool I really think that FIRST will out step their realm with one.

My first instinct was inflatable clowns and 5 of them beating on the robots at all times, but then I thought, thats probably not right.

But what I did think was running off the Baseball Idea. Within the diamond, you have 6 players involved. ( this does not include the outfield and the pitcher. ) You have the batter, 4 infielders and the catcher. 1 of these 6 players at all times stands at the plate, if the batter is not at the plate the game doesn't continue. Maybe this year it is a 3v3 game ( or some combination of such ) and 1 team almost be on the plate for the game to continue. That would be interesting, and I could see lots of strategy. Or maybe the home plate is a multiplier, every 15 seconds on the plate doubles a teams score.

Very interesting stuff tho, its the first time I remember we got a picture, we'll see I'm sure there will be some more accurate and more clever guesses than mine in this thread.

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HOAX!!!!

Oh, nevermind. :-)

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Maybe they read Greg's post and decided to push up the timeline to avoid a mass lynching :rolleyes:

Re: Serious the Real hint
 

See this post for a description of the 1999 puck, one of the most unique game pieces we've had.

When I look at this picture it seems like the top is cropped to hide some mounting or hinge mechanism. This is how it looks tiled across my desktop anyway. Could this be a target (1 of 5 or five point) in a shooting gallery or even a dunk tank type game?

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LOL

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1. It looks like the intro slides to the movies, I wonder if we will have 4 tomorrow & so on?

2. Check Dave's signature:
" "I know what you're thinking, punk," hissed Wordy Harry to his new editor, "you're thinking, 'Did he use six superfluous adjectives or only five?' - and to tell the truth, I forgot myself in all this excitement; but being as this is English, the most powerful language in the world, whose subtle nuances will blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' - well do you, punk?"
- Stuart Vasepuru, 2006 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest" (look v)

3. I swear I see rings (inverted images) in the picture below.

4. Why are we doing this to ourselves?

Re: Serious the Real hint
 

I saw rings too. Maybe the game pieces are hula hoops or similar. Maybe they're lit...

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I was also planning on sleeping well tonight...im dead tired...but that seems to be impossible now, as I am having troubles sitting here and not yelling around the classroom for ideas ;)

EDIT:
I see them too! :o The look kind of like the ripple effect when you throw a stone into still water.

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1) Theory of one of our Mentors

The number 5 is ‘V’ in roman numerals. ‘V’ rhymes with ’C’. The letter ‘C’ is pronounced the same as ‘sea’. Of course the sea is a large body of water. So obviously our robot will need to be water proof and nautical. The diamond plate is the robotic task. To earn points our robot will have to collect diamonds off the sea floor and deposit them onto a plate.



I wonder why the committee chose to give away the competition before the kick-off?



--Gregg

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Well I really doubt it's going to be a water game. LOL... I found this hint hilarious.....how simple but still hard to understand.
Here are couple of random predictions (for fun):

1. Remember how in Aim High, there were five bots on one side of the field? Does that ring a bell?
2. Five bots on a ramp...... at the end?
3. Star has 5 points......Five pointed star also represents the planet Mars, and the number points are 5-25-52-65-208-325. (Astronomy would help here)
4. Can anyone recall the Fifth US state to ratify constitution? (similar to Montana from last year) Or the fifth independent state?

thats it for now......i'm back to work

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Round plate with a five on it. What's round and comes in fives? Olympic Rings! What ring would make an excellent gamepiece? Hmmm.....

Aerobies, in Centennial Olympic Park, anyone?

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Of course, this year's game will be outside!

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WOW not a bad idea. Aerobies definately popped my eyes. :yikes:

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I'm not even going to think about this one. I'll enjoy my Christmas without the stress!

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You read the thread, now you can't get it out of your mind. Admit it!