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In that case, I reserve the right to assume that these are, in fact, Texans' Battle Red.

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Ah yes, but it is still Cardinals red :mad:

dissapointed, vivek


jk jk, I don't even watch football.

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I highly doubt that its a hoax and for mainly just one reason. If it was never in an email to the teams then sure I agree FIRST may play with us like this. But I question FIRST ever using its email blast as an accessory to a hoax. The email blasts frequently contain vital information for teams, and using it to play a prank on thousands of minds would lose credibility in its purpose.

Now as for what it is or what it will be used for, well I am content to wait till ours arrives in the mail before I think about it further. I hope is that its for a game piece that changes, not to be placed on the robot. The idea of game pieces changing throughout the game appeals to me.

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I have a feeling only certain teams got it for a REASON.

I just want to know what that reason IS.

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Me too

I have confirmation that 190 got the email, but as of yesterday 1735 had not. I'll try and find out about 971 tomorrow...

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Our team got the email, I assumed every team got it. Are there many teams that haven't? (sorry I haven't gone through all the pages to read all the discussion, nor would I have the time).

Has someone been keeping track of who has received the email and tried to make a connection, whether it be number of teams per regional receiving the email or in direct relation to their team number? If only a select few teams are receiving this email, there MUST be a correlation, in which case I am willing to begin speculating why.

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How long has Dave been doing that THING with the dots at the ends of some posts???
Ughhhhhh!!! WHY DOES HE DO THAT?!?!?!?! :ahh: :eek: :ahh:

Meh.. if anyone figures it out, post here.
On an unrelated note, I'm off to go put some dots on some diagrams of compounds in my final exam in Chemistry class.
Woooo Octet rules! :rolleyes:

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Only the primary contact (I think) for 68 got the email--I saw it forwarded to my inbox from her. Now, I have no idea whether or not we received the part.

Will be able to tell in about 45 minutes if FedEx came through.

JBot

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This thread has several themes running through it:
1. questions and ideas regarding the actual clue
2. the email and who has received it
3. the package containing the clue and who has received it
4. chatter
5. Donuts for Dave
6. I forget, oh yes - the whole hoax thing

To my knowledge, no one has posted the tally of who has what.

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The game could also be something along the lines of King Of The Hill (robot has to "defend" a certain area from opposing robots and the "Hill" moves around every x seconds of game play...) although this theory does defeat the purpose of Autonomous, but maybe it could work if there were other ways to score points...

Edit: the "Hill" area would be defined by a certain IR frequency (which could light up one of the 4 LED's on the board)

Edit2: Team 1241 has not recieved either an email or the chip as of now (or atleast our Lead contact hasn't informed us about it.. yet...)

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Well that explains the banana. :p

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lol. It's about time a banana showed up :D

-vivek

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I have to agree, it's become second nature to me that if I see the name dlavery then I have to instantly read the post/quote/reference no matter what.

Stupid brain training me to do stuff no matter how hard I try not to. :mad:

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:)

BMW

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well for the record 1565 recieved the email and not the part, I was asuuming we didn't get it cause we were in the middle of 2ft of snow yesterday lol maybe we got it tonight though, I'll find out tomorrow morning when I ask my teacher