an unusual observation
 

has anyone noticed that this forum is unusually quiet for this time of year?

at this time last year we had like two or 3 threads going. Now, we have none.

What happened to the dreaded "water game" rumors and the speculation on unrelated videos and their relation to the next game (if that sentence make sense).

For me, half the fun of the game was speculating and waiting for it before kickoff.

so am I the only one who has noticed this?

or am I just crazy?

Waiting for the first game hint is driving me crazy. lol

anyway, just an observation.

Re: an unusual observation
 

It was fun to speculate about a water game during a drought because we all knew it was quite infeasible. Now many teams have been flooded at least once in the last year.

Plus FTC just kicked off, so alot of us are tied up with working on that.

But don't worry, if the FTC game is any indication then FRC will be a bit complicated indeed, so we can speculate about what crazy game elements will be in FRC. After all, in the first 5 seconds of the FTC animation a robot flipped, showing exactly what FIRST expects from teams :ahh:

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And so it begins...

Next thing you know, Dave releases a red herring, and then it gets out of hand.

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and then soon we are all the way to Krispy Kremes and Grateful Dead songs

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This is actually probably one of the busiest years I've seen these forums during these months.

At least there are actually people (other than mods) talking on here.

I remember back in the day when you would go a couple days without seeing a post, or a new member sign up.

Gone are those days! :cool:

Re: an unusual observation
 

One wouldn't want to keep the red herring in hand, that gets kind of stinky.

Re: an unusual observation
 

Last month (August) there were 25% more page views then August 2007. You can see all kinds of statistics here: http://stats.chiefdelphi.com/


As for rumors, I heard there is going to be a new control system next year...

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I personally blame FIRST for a lack of preparedness for national flooding. Had we particapated in a water game hundred's of FIRST teams would have been more prepared with aqua-bots. Did anyone put any ringers to good use?

In all seriousness, this year should be a non ball game. Not likely to be tetras, boxes, innertubes,....hmmmm? I bet the game piece looks like a jax piece.

Re: an unusual observation
 

Seeing as how the new controller and camera have built in OCR, shape recognition and color recognition it will probably be more like large colored jacks each labeled individually with a name.


And just because I like to keep the rumors going, the cRio-9072/3/4 Operating Instructions and Specifications available on ni.com contains the following:

Re: an unusual observation
 

Traffic cones ?

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And the speculation begins... :)

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Cone heads does have a nice ring to it. <;)

What about horse shoes U?

Re: an unusual observation
 

True. Very true.

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No, that would remind us Michiganders of Traffic Construction season. We don't need reminders of that. :mad:

Unless we get to run OVER the traffic cones, then it would be slanted towards Michigan drivers, we would just do what we normally do to them. That or cursing at them, its a sport up here to curse at traffic cones ;)

(As a random aside, apparently the spell checker in OS X recognizes Michigander as a word... sweet!)

Re: an unusual observation
 

Unfortunately for those who don't like traffic cones, a game has been proposed that uses them as the game object...:D