Re: 2010 Game Hint #2
 

This perfectly exemplifies the two opposite types of people
*serious people
*not serious people

haha, this made me laugh

Re: 2010 Game Hint #2
 

I'm with Art on the side paneling. I distinctly remember a robot in AZ 2003 running on practice day, and something went haywire in automode. The robot went up the ramp, over the top, took a left on the other side, and right between the top and bottom rails of the field. It ended up under the bleachers before someone got to the E-Stop. Fortunately, nobody was hit.

Every year since then, there has been a shield of some form (wire or plastic) to prevent that. It isn't always shown on the drawings, though.

The amount of carpet outside the field is irrelevant, and even so, there isn't half the field shown. Usually there's no more than about a yard outside on either side, left from putting two rolls side-by-side and centering the field on them. That's no more than about a 3-4-yard section there total, at an unknown area of the field. It may in fact be the corners, or it may be the middle. Just as a note, those support pillars can (technically) go into just about any joint on the field border that isn't on the ends. And I think your angle is skewed; the ramp doesn't go into the field. Rather, there is a cutout in the lower part of the field border which can give that perception.

The key element is this: there is a gate in the side of the field. Next to that gate is clear of obstructions at the time shown in this CAD. Somewhere else on the field is the item in Hint #1. That is all we know at this time;usually, the rest of the hints come out on Saturday during Kickoff right before the curtain comes down.

Re: 2010 Game Hint #2
 

OK. Lets look at what is not there!
The track from hint #1 is not in hint #2.
so where is it? Well if the field is symmetrical then we can multiply the hint#2 view by 4. we are now seeing almost 1/3 of the total field surface. The area we cannot see is the middle and the two ends.
The track from hint #1 seemed to want to be attached to other pipe. Thus the long pair of pipe must be somewhere we cannot see. I suggest it be against the ends of the field. Because the lexan frame that holds the pipe would need to be mounted to some support.
:)

Re: 2010 Game Hint #2
 

Your forgetting a third dimension.

Re: 2010 Game Hint #2
 

Would this mean that the game hint isn't about the yellow pads? If they have been around in previous years and they are back this year, then that doesn't really seem like anything new.

Re: 2010 Game Hint #2
 

I believe the robots will have to ride unicycles. The wider gates are for the EMTs to pick up any robots that get hurt.

Re: 2010 Game Hint #2
 

Arrive in Florida, get a free suite, and there is another game hint, NICE!;)

From the looks of a more open field, I'm thinking that the scoring is either A: on the left and right and left side of the field much like 2006 or B: in the middle of the field like in 2007.

Oh and I see much more carpet than in previous years!

Re: 2010 Game Hint #2
 

I personally think that would be awesome. I loved driving on the regolith.

Re: 2010 Game Hint #2
 

the Grayish mass on the top could be interpreted as a WALL if u focus your eyes differnet

Re: 2010 Game Hint #2
 

Interesting idea, but it appears to be just the same background FIRST used for the first hint. In any case, if that was a wall, it seems highly unlikely that the gate would still be structured in the same way...

Re: 2010 Game Hint #2
 

The yellow platforms look like they may be on hinges, allowing the gray handle to rest on the field, causing the yellow platforms to be vertical. Perhaps we have to design robots to shoot the platforms down.

Re: 2010 Game Hint #2
 

As noted previously, those yellow "platforms" happen to be trip guards on field support units, and the gray "handle" happens to be the field border. Ask any other member of your team, or see the pictures earlier in this thread.

Re: 2010 Game Hint #2
 

On the contrary, I think that making those yellow plates straight and not curved was deliberate. It doesn't seem like they would make a simple mistake like that.

Then why wouldn't they be curved down to touch the floor in the picture? These look like they're there to serve some other purpose.

Re: 2010 Game Hint #2
 

I don't think they're trip guards. If they were, they would be curved down to touch the floor. It doesn't seem like they would make a simple mistake like forgetting to curve them.

Re: 2010 Game Hint #2
 

Because they are not manufactured curved. The curve comes from the velcro that holds then to the floor.