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according to The Home Depot customer order system, you can expect a few traffic cones, 3/4" 45degree PVC elbows and one string of LED christmas lights being delivered to 200 bedford street sometime soon.

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Why?

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Back in 2006, the same Home Depot order system showed an order for quite a few mailboxes at about this time, going to the same place. No mailboxes in the game yet.

I believe that said order system has a name:

Big Mike the Bearhugger--or is that Big Mike, AKA, Winnie the Pooh?

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The left over part and the bacon stick out the most to me.
bacon, pig, pig skin= football for a game piece and in 1995 the FRC game was ramp and roll which used a field goal as a scoring place which could be referring to the LEFTOVERS. 2011 also brings to us the 45 super bowl which is the most watched sporting event in the USA so this ties in to the spectator friendly atmosphere that FIRST has been trying to get at for a few years.

Maybe FIRST is using LEFTOVER game elements or ideas from other levels of their competitions like imagine something from FLL being made into a FRC game element or the atlas ball from FTC being brought back to make and appearance in the realm of FRC

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I don't know if anyone's made the connection yet, but the title of Bill's latest blog post is "My staff bought me a blue cake." The color of the cake isn't mentioned again.

Now, isn't one of Penn State's colors blue?

(all emphasis mine)

Maybe someone can make something out of this (I sure can't), but I just thought I'd throw that out there..

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Ok, I'm going to be that guy... I just can't resist.

Blue... Water Game!

But seriously, I think that either footballs or "weight" type game pieces with two tennis balls connected via pvc would be really cool. Both tricky to handle and having nothing to do with water.

Don't ask me why, I just have intuition.;)

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What he's throwing out there are some crumbs. Blue ones.

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"Oh, and as of late last night, we have a game name for 2011! With any luck, we’ll have a game logo by Friday. Let the game hints begin."

This makes me think hes gunna give us hints about the game name

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Maybe he has already released the hint and we haven't found it yet.::rtm::

Begin? Friday? Late?

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.....................................

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^reported

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A good point was brought up by Jared341 in the latest BB post about checking out the game manual. He noticed that the coopertition award was in affect yet again for 2011. This award is defined as...

In Breakaway, I believe coopertition points were awarded from assists towards getting goals. Now let's all think, what else can assists be used to in regards to games.

Think out side the box instead of games like soccer or basketball...

::rtm::

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Uhhh... What?

Coopertition points were given in the coopertition bonus, which was given to the winning team according to the formula CB=2*Losing alliance's unpenalized score.

That's not from "assists towards goals", unless you're thinking of scoring for your opponent (which was legal but risky).

I wouldn't be terribly surprised to see a similar Coopertition Bonus next year; it sure seemed to go over better than 2009's G14... And it has just about nothing to do with the game scoring (other than discouraging blowouts).

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Uber fail on my part haha. I actually never truly understood the coopertition bonus in the first place but I always believed that it was from assists.

:yikes:

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The Coopertition Bonus was terrible in my opinion. Not because it encouraged scoring for the other team, but because scoring Coopertition Points was literally the least helpful move a team could make for the other team. In terms of effect on standings, it was actually the most competitive, greediest move. Each score got you 2 and the opponents 0, instead of 1 and 1 for your own goal score. In effect, the winner of the CB was the least coopetive team!