How important is this
 

2008 is going to be my second season on a FIRST team and will also only be the second year our school has a team. My question: Why take up 19+ pages on guesses?

Just to waste time?
or
Just for fun?

I don't see the reason for the guessing. We'll all find out what it is soon enough. Right?:confused:

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Hmm.. I see. So maybe just a regular lottery of all participants in '08, or some people just haven't gotten theirs due to weather, or normal shipping restraints.

I'm now happy to know Rookies were not excluded in the gift. :cool:

I'm sorry, but was that a serious question? :confused:
Sorry. Couldn't resist asking that. Just play along with it. It's fun.
The seemingly simple explanation I can think of is FIRST (as a whole organization) has liked to generate a "BUZZ" about the new game before it's been released for quite a number of years now. Some great things come out of the discussions, even if they don't come to be a part of the game this year.
I'm guessing the GDC has even maybe gone back to these hint threads, and pulled some feasible items or actions for future games from the guesses.
In any case, it gives us a change to chat about the new game before we're all too busy building robots & our stress levels are up. We may get stressed about the hint, but you shouldn't.
It's the calm before the storm, aka: The 6 weeks of hell! :eek:

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no fun waiting IMHO lol. and for me its only 4 (50 posts per page or something) xD...

but ya its too long of a wait till the 5th

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It's my first year on CD, second year in FIRST. Last season, after we had our first meeting in December, January 5th took too long. This lots of fun for most of us. Will we even come close to guessing the game or what this is for? Probably not. But it's cool to see all the different views and opinions on something so simple. Some people posted stuff I've never thought of, and maybe the GDC will use some of the musings here in future games or rules.

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I think that dave might have influenced those people at the GDC a bit too much... :p

-vivek

p.s. I still think that you kids should wait a couple of days before jumping to conclusions. Maybe the email list got cut off, maybe only some teams got the boards because of their location, maybe everyone will get the boards if you waited a couple of days.

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Seriously? Can't be.

Speculation, particularly wild (but plausible) speculation is what makes this kind of thing fun. Kind of like science fiction.

We're creative types, but with a engineering bent, so speculating excites the creative juices and satisfies the need to be creative. But geeks have their limits.... Also, don't take stuff so seriously.

If this doesn't make sense, then I have some puzzlement.

Don

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True story - 2007 - I was sitting in the stands with 1902 as their team mates competed on Einstein with their alliance partners. A few rows down from me sat KathieK and a few rows down from her sat Dave. As I watched the teams competing, I thought about a clue we received right before the start of the 2007 season. It was an interesting clue and KathieK and I exchanged a couple of PMs. She wondered if I saw fingers in the clue. Nope, I didn't see any fingers.

Wrong.

I sat there absorbing the moment with a 2nd year team and a loud contagious cheer, thinking about the very beginning of the incredible season, starting with a mysterious clue - and all I could do was smile.

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None of the Team 980 contacts (Main, Alternate/Shipping) have received the e-mail or circuit board itself. We did have an issue with a payment from a non-profit org to FIRST not being credited because our team number wasn't on the check, but that was resolved last Tuesday.

We'll wait until next Wed. to contact FIRST. Perhaps by then, the "hoax" will have been uncovered or everyone officially registered will have received their "December gift".

Either way, this exercise shows just how hungry we all are for next season's challenge!!

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Wrong, honestly i'm a rookie and the whole Jan 5th excitement has already gotten to me, I've spent idk 6-7 hrs on this board and I spent all morning trying to confirm this as an offical FIRST object, which right now is my decision that it is an offical object (after i think 3 DNS traces, and a few IP traces), and yea i've gone somewhat sleep less on thinking on what the game might be this year.

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To all the rookies reading this:

Welcome! This is the beginning of the end. Game Hint Season.
[credit to Michelle Celio for naming the next 2 weeks.]

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im used to the whole beginning of the end thing was part of FLL for 2 years until my school stopped it but the Hint Season is just downright currently nerve wrecking. :D but im keeping my cool from jumping all over the place.

As for my rookie game theory, im working on it.

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Emphasis mine. :rolleyes: :p

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my guess is beachballs.

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Our team's paid for everything (I think), but it is a Sunday, so... that leads to more indecision. We haven't gotten either a board or an email, and we aren't rookies. And I don't think FIRST would do anything not to keep the field as level as possible. Will each team post whether they've gotten their's?

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lol

this is my FIRST "game hint season"... I'm pretty excited.

last year, I found out about the program so late that there was no build up. nobody know about it at all. rookie team. premeeting, workshop at the U of Minnesota, kickoff, boom...

-vivek