Re: 2011 Game Hint #1
 

"let's make a chain now"

Hints in the past have rarely given away the main focus of the game, but sometimes allude to autonomous/bonus features. How about forming a train (locomotion) of 2 or 3 robots as the bonus?

Re: 2011 Game Hint #1
 

I went to youtube and found the song "Locomotion" by Little Eva. I noticed that the singers at the back were on stairs. :S Robots climbing stairs seems awkward but a possibility?

Here is the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5OoQadZTPk

Re: 2011 Game Hint #1
 

Hey Look http://www.tineye.com/search/c5af289...dbdc335dcdc66/
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IPleWqe4J7...Pic_1%2529.png

Re: 2011 Game Hint #1
 

That'd be a fun one!

"Name's Robot, FIRST Robot"
"<gamepiece> shaken, not stirred."

It'd be a neat game mechanic to have to shake something, but I'm not sure how you'd work it in. At any rate, we're pretty far in left field here. :rolleyes:

(You guys are fast!) :ahh:

Re: 2011 Game Hint #1
 

It was an image reversed... So basically what we saw was not reality.

> Things are not always what they seem

Game in which something mid match changes? More than autonomous to oc and oc to finale... something in the oc that changes and you have to account for, field piece transformation? defense offense switches?

Re: 2011 Game Hint #1
 

I believe her first single was used on an episode of HBO's "Curb you Enthusiasm", which would of course mean we have a curb on the field. So there will be a perimeter around the field that you need to climb a 2004 style step to get up. For those of us who have been doing this for quite some time, you'll remember the official game hint for 2004 was the song "Stairway to Heaven". Sometimes the hints are extremely straight forward, so much so that you don't believe they'd be that obvious.

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Roy on the British show "The IT Crowd" also sung her song "The Locomotion" in one episode while wearing red lipstick
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Re: 2011 Game Hint #1
 

I don't have anything else to work on, except oh no! I just realized we might be carrying columns! (or putting them in a pool of water)

Re: 2011 Game Hint #1
 

The robots have to dance?

Re: 2011 Game Hint #1
 

Here's thought for food:

People keep hinting at stairs, correct? This is a special year in FIRST, correct? Stairs have been used in a previous game, correct?

What other previous game elements/features can you extract from this game hint? It's possible we're seeing a combination of games from years past.

Re: 2011 Game Hint #1
 

Does anyone else think it is interesting that this image came from something called the complete Dimension recordings? It would have again probably taken effort to remove that from the image...

Re: 2011 Game Hint #1
 

I don't think the image being reversed is part of the clue. I think they were just making it harder for people to reverse image search it.

I like the idea of Robot locomotion and definitely something with stairs. It would be nice to see FIRST getting away from "simple" wheeled robots and move into more challenging terrain that requires something other than simple AWD and traction control.

Re: 2011 Game Hint #1
 

Bill's Facebook post says "the first FRC game hint (that we're admitting to)" tells me that there are other hints out there. In his previous posts we have seen:
* stair picture
* "hang in there"
* "stand by"
* Two steps forward, one step back
* View from 30,000 feet

I would think one or more of those could be additional hints, as it may relate to this picture - its setting, the artist, orientation, songs, etc.

My $0.02
* reversed train tracks - above the field, not on the field.
* bots that have to climb up or attach to tracks
* move on tracks
* hang on tracks
* vertical movement
* field elements above the playing field

Re: 2011 Game Hint #1
 

Yes, but they have never been a particularly important feature. In 2004 many teams elected to just climb straight to the top of the platform via the shear edge since the goal was hard to get around if you climbed the stairs. Extra smart teams just hung from the floor (i.e. 71).

The column reminds me of the tall PVC tube goals FIRST used frequently prior to 2005. We saw them as trailers in 2009, but they used to show up almost every year in the 1990s and first part of this decade.

Re: 2011 Game Hint #1
 

This happened in 'Aim High' when the first half of driver controll allowed one team to overload the offense and the second half allowed the other team to overload the offense.

Not out of the question.

Re: 2011 Game Hint #1
 

like 2006? where one robot coundnt cross midfeild during part of the game..