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Unless you have been living under a rock these past few weeks you may have come to notice that CarNack is no longer the only one with the future at his disposal. The threads posted by a user named "Looking Forward" are a continuation of a pre-week prediction by Dr. Joe in previous years. So far with two weeks into the season the predictions have been fairly accurate. Not only that but they are significantly researched and very well written. So I ask the question....Who is Looking Forward?
There are many here among us who have the knowledge and connections to piece together these insights into regionals yet to be played, but who has the time or the drive to bring to us what I am calling the "lazy man's pre-scouting report" The suspects: Dr. Joe - In the first post LF posted that they were talking over from Dr. Joe, but could this be a deception? Karthik - This man from the great white north has had his fingers on the pulse of FIRST for years with his regional winning metals weighing more than he does. Is he the mastermind behind these predictions? Joel J - A former member of 173 and 229 he has seen his fair share of victories and was the only person I know who called the winning alliance at last years championship he has the confidence in predictions to make bold predictions. Rich Kressly - Mild mannered English teacher (and dork) on the outside, strategic super genius on the inside? He is an English teacher who coaches the robotics team, and has the connections through the secret network of senior mentors and his other organizational involvements. Does he have the time or drive for this. Andy Grady - The professor himself. We have seen him give lessons about the good old days citing information about obscure teams and events past. Is Grady digging into his bag of tricks for this? Andy Baker - Everyone knows Andy Baker but does Andy Baker know everyone? Is it possible that Baker is tapping his sales sheet from a certain company using the information to figure out what people have built. Or does he just have the superpowers to make predictions and then make them come true? Woodie Flowers - I was reading an article a few months back about the development of a time machine at MIT. Has one of our noble figure heads made his way to the future only to bring back the news of regional wins? Sounds like a stretch but who really knows what happens behind closed doors at MIT. Ken Patton - One of the silent types on these boards but one of the biggest names in FIRST. He has already posted in a few prediction threads, but the real reason for Ken is his secretism. If there was a FIRST secret society I bet Ken would be the ring leader...skull and bones style. There are many other suspects: JVN - all his bot did was drive in circles? what else did he do with his time The Blue Alliance- They have the data can these predictions come from past info FIRSTcast folks - Where have the episodes been? is it possible their time is given to other endeavors? Corey Balint - a past 25 driver and analyst where has he gone, maybe he never left.... CarNack - He may be posting under an alias due to heavy paparazzi harassment during the past 6 or so weeks. The list goes on. So lets pretend it's the early nineties and ask are ourselves not where in the world is Carmen Sandiego but "WHO IN THE WORLD IS LOOKING FORWARD" I am sure we have some sleuths who can help uncover the mystery and by no means is this a complete suspect list. I encourage the investigation of any members that might have the gift of foresight. |
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That account does not belong to any of those people.
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You forgot an Obvious suspect....
Greg Needel! don't think that that post sways us Greg.... we know it's you! :D -Leav |
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Also, what if it was more than one person? |
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When it was first posted, Someone commented on how anonymous accounts are not permitted, and then it was deleted soon after. So it has to be someone that has some type of say or has taled to someone about who they are. SO..Im thinking its a FIRSTface, But its not Ken, he doesnt have time for it :P CarNack, Where are you? Unless it is you! |
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It certainly isn't me.;)
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It's definitely not me. LF has made some statements that make some regionals appear to be weaker than others. I'm too non-confrontational for that, these days. I definitely would not want to tick off an entire region of customers.
I don't think it is Dr. Joe. He was a judge at the Kettering Rookie Regional last weekend. Since this week's summary of week 2 did not include any mention of that event, we can count Joe out. If it were Joe, he would've mentioned a couple of teams to watch for as future rookie all-stars. I'm in the dark about this. I must say that someone is doing a fantastic job of analysis and reporting. I'm "looking forward" to the next installment. AB |
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My guess is its someone with at least some level of closeness to important people in CD... like Brandon. Other people I can think of who it could potentially be:
Brandon Martus Travis Hoffman Dave Lavery |
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it's not me, I have a hard enough time seeing the past.
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This is one person with in-put from several which means more than one person knows who this person is.
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Last year, Dr. Joe noted that he had some tipsters. I also noticed that there was something called "Looking Forward" going on. I would suspect a group, with someone nobody expects holding the account.
It isn't me, that's all I know. |
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:-X
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I'd say somebody knows something... *stares at Brandon Holley*
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at first I would have guessed "LF" is Karthik, with his knowledge of FIRST and FIRST teams. and he always has a story to tell about the teams competing. Its always fun listening to his stories at Waterloo and GTR when he MC's.
But now that M. Krass has ruled out the list that Greg posted I have no idea. Maybe its all of them working together |
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Oh, OH!!!!!
There was a post about team 148's robot. There was a post by LF that was deleted and another EXACTLY the same posted later. I believe I know and if I am right, it is not Karthik. |
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Would one read this post to imply a member of 148 = LF, Steve?
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I'm surprised Dave hasn't chimmed in:rolleyes:
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One can hardly imagine juggling a fake screen name, and their real one.
So.. who has been kinda quiet lately?* *Don't look at me.. .I'm pushing close to 7,000 posts. I hardly consider that to be quiet... ;) |
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Well, personally, I think it's M. Krass just based on how fast she shot down the first post on who the account belonged to. :D
Other then that? I have some guesses, but that account can not belong to one person alone. Multiple people, probably at least three, is my guess. |
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:D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Forward |
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The username could be a really fun pun in more ways than one - but then I like puns.
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Has anybody noticed that Looking Forward's profile claims that he has made 25 posts, but when you search for all of his posts, there are only seven? Mysterious...
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It's definitely not Karthik either - not his style. I still say Greg - he lies, he does. He has nothing better to do while in Nashville (I think that's where he's at). I'd also put some of my money on Tom Bottiglieri as well, or some other younger mentor. |
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Dun Dun Dun! The plot thickens... Look under the list of "admins" here for your suspects. |
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HIDDEN FORUMS :ahh:
I've always wondered about those! |
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One of these days I want to see whats in the hidden forums for myself. I think that would be pretty spiffy. Maybe some day...
In the mean time, back on topic. Obviously to post in those forums Looking Forward has to be someone with access to them on their original account. So, anyone who can veiw the list mentioned here stop and lend the rest of us a hand? |
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There is a link at the bottom of the forum main page, where you can view forum leaders.
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It is not I as I can't remember my own team most of the time. The person that I believe it is, is not to my knowledge in the "Hidden Forums". I am a member of a few of them and believe me when I say that they are nothing special. It usually means having more work to do. If a post is deleted then in doesn't show on your post count I believe.
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It's the dreaded "archiver" :)
Not Beth Sweet - certainly not Beth Sweet. :cool: :p ;) |
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Its CD-47Bot! Brandon outfitted it with some prediction algorithms!
All joking aside though, it is a "team" of people, as shown in their Wk1 Looking Back post |
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http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=16 At the very bottom of the page of each Forum, there is a list of Moderators. 27 Mods in General Forum alone! Wow! |
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ITS JVN! |
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It's definitely not me, although I have sent him/her a few tips. There's no way I could find the time to put together those types of reports. I have to say, Looking Forward is doing a great job.
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A few things ..
1) It's not me. I haven't the time nor knowledge (there's ROBOTS?!) to do this. 2) They asked permission before creating the 'Looking Forward' account. Duplicate accounts are prohibited, unless approved by the Chief Delphi admins. |
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Let's form a posse (graciously & professionally of course ;) ) and go after him get the name out of him!!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: (Btw... I'm kidding...) :p At least they knew enough to follow procedure! :) Plot = Thicker. lol |
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(sorry, couldn't resist the reference to the 'is it a ROBOT or MECHANISM' argument going on) |
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this thread is funny
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There is clearly a hidden forum involved here, which, I suspect, the group of "FIRSTers All-over" have access to, and that is where Looking Forward puts together his or her posts. My suspicion is that several people write the actual posts, with the main Looking Forward person having the final say in the actual post. (A contributor/head editor kind of arrangement)
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There is no hidden area that this is discussed. That is something that you can take to the bank.
What others may say in PM's is a separate matter. A famous man once said "I know nothing!!!!!". |
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And... other... things... LOL Fun times... :p |
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My money's on Lil' Lavery, no idea why though.
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Compare Looking Forward's posts:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=65213 http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=65494 To these posts: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=56242 http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=56276 http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=56295 http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=56725 .. and so on. Jut pay attention to writing style and formatting of the information. Just like how everyone usually has their own style of written handwriting, everyone also has their own styles of composing ideas and sentence structure, almost as a form of an electronic fingerprint. And even if these are related, I don't have a problem with it. After all, we all look forward to the great Car Nack's wisdom every year (he even has his own sub-forum!) , even though his identity is not entirely secret. ;) |
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Pretty sure you're spot on there, Arthur
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Pretty sure you're wrong here, Steve. It's in a hidden area. The person who's account it is has been named in this thread. |
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* Played by actor John Banner, who was a native of Austria. Ironically, Banner was forced to leave his own country in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution -- he was Jewish. |
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I thought that when I first read the Looking Forward posts, Art.
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OOOO i totally know how to find out!!:ahh:
but...:( i cant....cuse i dont have access to Chief Delphi's server(s). But you could use a flagging program to flag any posts by Looking Forward, then add a IP tracking script onto the web site server(s), and then whenever the post was submitted, you could check and see which IP addresses were accessing the site at the time. But since Chief Delphi recieves an large amount of traffic, you would probably have multiple IP's recorded. SOOO you would have to wait for like three or four posts by Looking Forward, then cross-reference the results. Then you could use http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation to check the locatiopn of Said IP address. then you could use yellowpages to find out who owns said address. |
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Or you could just send LF a PM and ask him his name :rolleyes:
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Whisper, Brandon Martus (one of the administrators) knows who Looking Forward is. Duplicate accounts are normally not allowed, so Looking Forward asked and received special permission to create a second account for this purpose.
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In any case, I agree with the group post idea. It sounds as if all the predictions are discussed, compiled and then typed and sent by the one leader. So what we know: This person has another account on Chief Delphi. This person has much experience, with FRC at least. This person has vast amounts of free time or a vast sleep debt... Cory says this person has been named. He's been as talkative as usual, but that might take into account sleep debt. Cory- ARE YOU INVOLVED?! 'looks suspiciously' |
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I think I know who it is but I wait to see!
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If Looking Forward is reading this, I'm looking forward (pun intended) to the Week 3 predictions since it's the first week of regionals my team is competing in... (Hartford)
Oh where art thou, LF? :) |
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haha Greg, you got to have something better to do with your time. Don't you have a battlebot to design and build?
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I don't know who it is but I can say with reasonable certainty that there is a strong influence from the Boston area. There are a lot of young dedicated FIRSTers up there who have ties all over the country.
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I didn't do too bad for Nationals last year either there Greggypoo. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...54&postcount=1 |
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Anyone else find it funny how he pops out of the woodwork like this....very suspicious indeed. |
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I still dont think its him tho |
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It could be me. I have been cutting back on the build season lately due to becoming a mentor. I am known to be able to find most anything out on the net. I am a strategist if I wish to. The only problem? I am a bit lazy at such things. So, anyone think I might be LF? If not, send me a PM as to why. You might be surprised with your response.;)
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It's Greg himself! I found him working on Week 4 predictions:
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In fact, several people know this person's* identity, but I beseech them all, maintain your vows of secrecy! (It's more fun this way) Don *or persons' |
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I feel as if only three people would pull this off, and two of them frequently have similar haircuts
1. Tom Bottligieri - Even with a last name that hard to spell, he has made himself a household name as a master of strategy and has deep connections to the FIRST community. However, one would expect him to hype his own team (195) more in the CT predictions. 2. Sean Lavery - Often the same haircut as Tom (in my opinion, please no one hurt me?), and well known for his insightful analysii on the forums, which have been lacking as of late. He also has no team connection this year (iirc?), giving him an unbiased look, more potentially willing informants, and possible early views of some of this year's robots. 3. Corey Balint - He predicted the 2007 Champions, captained the finalist alliance in 2006, and won two regionals undefeated in the same year. Obviously a force to be reckoned with, but for those who know him, he is hard to take seriously in a year that has spherical game objects. |
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http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/31032
First response, now all we have to do is analyze the type of writing style and compare it to every possible person This is assuming Looking Forward tries to write differently as LF |
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Unless LF is just trying to throw us off . . . ;) |
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i think his projections can be regional based, 1305 has put together a strong machine and yet LF fails to metion them in his predictions. thats a majore peice missing from the waterlloo section in my opinion... if you look at hsi statements in there, the only two teams that he has paragraphs for are 1114 and 2056. looking at that stat, i can project that even if karthik is giving him tips. then this person is not from a team in ontario or a team that has attended GTR
him stating the other teams that were not competing, saying 1592.. which is a team in FL. shows in my opinion that LF is a person in the midwest region of the country.... |
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Based on the week 3 prediction, that person has way more knowledge of my team (469) than anyone else. And is way more interested in it that the average person.
I would say that Dr. Joe has to be involved one way or another because his friendship w. one of our main engineers has always made him a fan of our team and an "insider". Other people who could have had access to information about our robot include anyone who came to practice at our facility. Paul Copioli is probably the second best informed "outsider" concerning our robot. Anyhow... it doesn't really matter who it is. I really enjoy reading his posts! |
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Does it really matter who's looking forward's real identity is?
Will it make you change your opinion of his/her work? All I know is that each week throughout the season I enjoy reading the articles put out by LF. Sometimes teams are overlooked (but im sure for good reason). But most of the time LF is pretty accurate with how that week will unfold and who will do what. All in all thanks LF, for writing up something that intrigues so many of us. |
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Lil' Lavery.
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I have to agree with Libby, does it really matter who Looking Forward is? Sure it would be fun to figure out this "mystery" but you have to admit, he is stealthy. Im "Looking Forward"<--horrible pun....to his next post
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Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!! That narrows this down quite a bit.. and makes me so happy they used the term as well. :D :D :D
Note the name of The CT Regional in big bold letters... http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ht=predictions |
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Its probably Sean Lavery, still could be Dr. Joe. But my vote is for Sean Lavery...
keep it up overall good predictions (a few holes in Waterloo predictions, I can lend some help with GTR if you want). |
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The think you should understand that a site admin can see his Ip and therefore knows who he is, so its not alltogether unknown
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At first I thought maybe Joe Johnson, but I've noticed an awful lot of 1114 and 217 references...
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In this post Looking Forward posted a "normal" post with the anonymous identity.
In that post he/she used a special emoticon >_<, which only one person has used on chiefdelphi. If you can find out who uses that emoticon, you will find the true Looking Forward. (It isn't who you expect at all, but does explain why Looking Forward likes 1114 so much) |
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Well, here's a thought -
Looking Forward will be giving the CD community little gems and nuggets of insightful predictions for the Championship '08. If they continue to want to do this through IRI and other off seasons and then into '09, does it matter that their identity is known? And has anyone noticed anything about Mr. Copioli of late? |
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How's it going Looking Forward? ;)
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Thought I would let you all know. I am Looking Foward. Nah, not really. But I dont know if who it is really matters. He has been spot on for most picks he has made every week. This, in my opinion, is amazing. But I am sure he has been getting help from people.
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