Re: One month to Kick-off
 

I know this hacker.... :p Seriously, if someone went that far, it'd be too much. Definitely would ruin the whole anticipation of that month before and the gracious proffesionalism-ly-nes of it all.

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

maybe Libby K. knows a clue, lets ask her lol jk:]

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

Pretty sure the encryption on the manual is pretty much brute-force proof. Exactly 27 days till kickoff though...

Isn't it funny how when you get involved with FIRST, you forget about Christmas and New Years...

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

Actually the "leaked" game was a hoax. But a very good one that in some ways was close to the real game that year. Inspectors and Refs were still trying to correct misconceptions at Nationals that were brought on by the hoax. Lots of showing people things in the rule books. Pdfs were either just coming into fashion or not invented yet so everything was on paper and teams didn't always print complete rules for everybody either. That did not help things.

I won't mention the name of the prominent FIRSTer who pulled this one. Their very prominence gave the story credibility it would not have had otherwise which contributed to the damage. The perpitrator apologized and swore never to do such a thing again, and they haven't. So we just remember it and tell the story every now and then as a caution not to believe everything you read on CD. I think it was around then that CD added the Rumor Mill.



BTW never EVER believe what you read in the Rumor Mill. That area of CD is strictly for amusement.

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

Nope, sorry, I've got nothing. It wouldn't be fair if my team got a clue.

The only thing anyone will tell me is...

jello, inflatable clowns, and bananas.

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

jello is made of water, inflatable clowns float in water, and bananas have some water content.... WATER GAME!!! :D

-vivek

p.s. this is fun... :p

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

I can't make any sense of jello, inflatable clowns, and bananas... but i like jello, inflatable clowns, and bananas... this game is like jello, inflatable clowns, and bananas... so I should like this game, right? =]


I think i might hibernate during the winter break to survive build season...

:D EXCITED!!!!!!!

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

Very true. Maybe it is considered masochistic if I attempt to hunt down and put together thousands of shreds of soaked, torn and acid-dissolved paper with the game plans on it... Not to mention not nearly as graciously professional as furiously puzzling from random maybe-hints and creatively over-analyzing each and every one of Dave Lavery's posts.

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

You know you are addicted to FIRST when you spurt out the time left to kickoff randomly and your friends have no idea what you are talking about...

:p

-vivek

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

How about when your friends DO know what you're talking about??.... They're all counting down too. :)

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

True so true, All of my non-robotics related friends think I'm talking about football or something. It's quite entertaining actually.
:rolleyes:

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

why do people keep anticipating a water game, you know haw implausible that is? plus i don't think that they would use the same basic concept for 2 years in a row. pool tubes and water? Its hard enough to build a working robot that drives, let alone floats. sorry, im ranting, it just seems that everyone is either convinced we are having a water game or they just like bringing up the subject.

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

is not that we are anticipating is just that we want kick off day to be here already, so why not fool around by thinking that the challenge will be a water game lol

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

good point, it just angers me that we cant predict something more plausible. idk i just wish a better hint comes soon so we have more make a ridiculous prediction off of

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

The water game thing's totally a joke.


Or IS IT?!?!?!?

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

hey libby stop making us more confused then what we already are lol:D

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

I know the water game thing is a joke...

Just wanted to point out the fact that it won't happen anytime in the near future. I know for a fact that almost every venue that hosts a regional or competition would not let FIRST haul in a big tank of water.

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

OK, For The One Hundredth Time!!!! http://h2orobots.org/fallindex.htm UNDERWATER ROBOTICS IS POSSIBLE!!!

Just not for FIRST, anytime soon...

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

yeah the water game is a joke. People just like bringing it up for the sake of sarcasm. I guess I am one of those people now...

-vivek

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

I know it's a joke, I don't mind that, but I'm saying people shouldn't say it's impossible. It just isn't very likely for FIRST.

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

With a hint like that, I believe you are in on it* with Dave to fool everyone on CD .

*it referring to Dave's ritual of throwing out random hints to throw the CD community off and not the game.

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

Why not? The US Cellular Arena (location of the WI regoinal) used to haul in tanks of water for the sports show. I think the bigger problem would be teams would have a hard time trying to find a place to test their robots.

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

*innocent eyes* I think Dave has a pool at his house. *innocent eyes*

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

haha Our high school supposedly has a pool on the fifth floor. We only have four floors. I do think that there a greenhouse on the roof though...

We could always flood our gym "accidentally"

:rolleyes:

-vivek

Re: One month to Kick-off
 

Ya, that does sound fun

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Urrgh...I only made it to school one day this week due to illness, and in all that time I was home, lying on the couch not really able to accomplish much, I was compulsively checking usfirst.org and CD for any hint of a hint to occupy my time.