Re: Game Hint #1
 

What about the sharks in the background? Those are visible.

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There's no way it can be an underwater competition. I doubt FIRST could even afford to build the fields. And it would make it much harder for the teams so FIRST would actually lose teams rather then gain them. Not what they want.

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I am sure about it. It says "deeply forked tail" (a description I find in reference to channel catfish, which also approximately match the ghostly image of the fish which we assume is on the other side of the page). Other words I see clearly are "covered" and "dorsal fin", and I think the word before "dorsal" is "lobed".

I'm also pretty confident that the words are completely incidental to the fact that it's a picture of a moonfish.

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Very true. I know that it would be an impossible task. Im just sayin... knowing FIRST they have some wacky ideas, im not putting it past them. Heck it does not cost that much to fill a regular sized arena with like 6" of water. im not saying submerged, or maybe there are "pools" on the field. I know i sound nuts, but i like to think that im just as eccentric as all the FIRST folks!:yikes:

Re: Game Hint #1
 

Not in the original picture found here:
http://usfirst.org/community/frc/content.aspx?id=11310


My point is, the original picture shows a fish... one we have established as an Opah, or a moonfish. That's all we have to go on as far as I'm concerned.

But then again.. who knows?? Maybe I'm wrong.
It's only a picture, & nothing to get all worked up about.

Me personally, I'm waiting for the next clue.

Re: Game Hint #1
 

They're in the original, behind the picture of a fish. or they could be a channel catfish, if the text is at all relevant, the image looks fairly close I guess. I'm not a fish person.

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If a tree falls and no one's around to hear it..................

Although this is FIRST, so they could have left it in there to throw us off (as it seems to have done already). Or, maybe they figured that taking out the text is a waste of time.

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Just to play off the forked them a little more, let us think in the terms of roads, pairing this with the vertical migrations mentioned countless times we could predict that there will be multiple potential paths, or ways to play the game.

And to further discredit the text, I couldn't even see it on the picture. I saw blue lines but I blamed my monitor for that. It is conceivable that they didn't even notice the text. Now, as for why they would open it in Photoshop, I have no ideas on that.

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OK so I googled "Lampris guttatus" and found that it is Swedish and lampris means glossy and guttatus is spotted I looked at this one site its was in Swedish so i went to the Google translator and pasted the site into translate web sitehttp://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhem.passagen.se%2Fkent.an dersson%2Fglansfisk.htm&sl=sv&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8. It gives some information on this fish. It is also known as a Opah or moonfish.

edit: the word is not Swedish sorry, but I found this site and it has a picture of the fish next to a guy it is huge!!It also talks about how the meat of the fish tastes. Take a look at this it gives some perspective. I know if i saw this fish in the water i would freak out!

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/me wonders how this fish would taste with some "good creole sauce... on a nice bed of dirty rice".:rolleyes:
Obviously it MUST taste better than some Converse All Stars with the same treatment.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=49

Re: Game Hint #1
 

Well i hate to tell you but....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opah

So I hate to ruin all the fun but.. There seems to be a lot of focus on the term "moonfish". I would suggest a more broader approach to the name of the fish when relating it to the future game.

Just a suggestion.:cool:

Carry on.

Re: Game Hint #1
 

The FIRST folks design an FRC game for the season. With that game comes constraints many of us never think about.
Just a few that come to mind are:
- the budgets of the different regionals
- each venue's restrictions/rules
- each vendor's capabilities and generosity
- the current technological capabilities
- the different areas of the world and what all the teams can readily access (an example would be pool noodles used for bumpers. There are posts here in CD regarding the difficulty in obtaining those for some. That's just one example.)

What may appear as wacky or eccentric is far from. The games are given intense scrutiny, dealing with things many of us have never thought of, as I said. They are also created by brilliant minds. In this case, these brilliant minds are focused on serving all of the FRC teams and giving them a game to enjoy and to challenge them. It's fun to joke and tease but it's also good to be aware of the amount of work and effort that goes into this, including these hints.

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Yes, this fish has lots of names. But.... If you go to google images and search for moonfish, the first image you get is the one FIRST used.

I kinda think "they" google-imaged moonfish and that's what they got.

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Does anyone remember the "600,000 hours" speech from kickoff last year? This clue hunt seems to fall into that category very nicely. I don't want to Godwin the thread, but no one has mentioned Paris Spears or Britney Hilton yet.

PS: Was it 600k and last year? My brain always fuzzes details like "time" or "order of magnitude".

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its a parana!!!!! i think... we all think its a parana...haha:yikes: