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It's obvious: We have to play a game of cards! (Go Fish!)

Okay, how about this: We have to "fish" for something over a barrier of some sort.

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Anyone remember the rumor from last year that the new location for Nationals will be Hawaii after Georgia. Hmm..., a Hawaiin fish...not just for breakfast anymore!

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Wow, not even 24 hrs and this post has over 250 replies...

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I can hear Dave Lavery telling his friends "Those students swallowed the 'hint' Hook, Line and Sinker" :D

Game On

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There are 2 layers of overlapping text. open the pic in paint, invert the colors, and you can make out some of it. there is a shark in the background. maybe 2 sharks. crank the brightness in paint, that helps.

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yes I was surprised there were that few too. :)

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I don't know if it is irrelevant or not, Dave is quite taken by 'Fish Boy' at the IRI competition, who belongs to team 1094, the Channel Cats!

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You have to ignore the writing on the picture. The Australian seafood site that it parallels/comes from has writing on most of the backgrounds. Fish used to be wrapped in newspaper a long time ago (and maybe still in some places).

However, because they were all consistent with having newsprint backgrounds, eliminate that. It should be very interesting if FIRST takes it down due to lack of permission, unless they do.... After all, there is a better picture on a Hawaiin fish site, with no background text. Hmm....back to the Australian tie, and possibly anti-gravity....

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Game will be called "Down Under"

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i liked "feeding frenzy" better.....

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There are NO layers.
Terrible

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Sorry ... they've already sent out the hotel registration information. It's in Atlanta again. :cool:

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The image is too imprecise to provide any concrete and truthful information on the next year's competition.

In other words... chill out.

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I've done a litte research and I believe it's a type of "silver dollar" fish accustomed to Tropical areas. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have any special characteristics that would make for an interesting game. They are peaceful but can be ravinous eaters, that are mostly herbivores, they are a salt water fish and not much else more interesting. If anyone can find anything, I'm sure we'd all be happy to know what. Good luck!

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it's true that the writing may seem insignificant, but you also have to realize that the picture has been edited from its original form from that website. the file is nearly double the size, so i imagine that the text is rather important for the clue. i'm hoping someone posts a photoshop picture of it so we can all see the words.