Originally Posted by ICanCountTo19 (Post 991114)

The first thing I noticed about this logo is that it does not have a trademark or a copyright symbol like every other instance of the logo, but is otherwise identical to the official one.

Why would they pull the TM off this image?

Originally Posted by EricH (Post 991160)

No autonomous period. There wasn't one up until 2003; it would be an interesting throwback to not have one for a year.

Originally Posted by Creator Mat (Post 991168)

I got it we got to put a square peg in a circular hole... o wait we do that every year already

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256 (Post 991173)

After serious evaluation, I've come up with the first fact proven true about this years competition: There will be robots!:eek:

Originally Posted by TheoBlacksmith (Post 991176)

Full heartedly agree(but ya never know).......
also im prettty sure the robots are going to be made out of aluminum.
just throwing that out there

Originally Posted by EricH (Post 991134)

Excuse me, but it's one thread.

The FIRST logo with the TM would mean nothing--it's the FIRST logo. The absence of the TM (or anything else other than the shapes) means that it is NOT the FIRST logo as it would normally be seen. The game logo is not the FIRST logo; the game logo would give away the game.

The significance is that SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE THERE IS NOT. What the missing thing is is the confusing thing.

...Wait a minute. The first hint was an album cover, reversed, and with the title removed. The second hint is the FIRST logo, normal, with thecompetition/organization tag and the trademark removed.

Both hints have something removed; an identifier or title. Could the game involve removing something from somewhere on the field?

--Don't go looking for no significance where there might be some significance that you can't see.

Originally Posted by remulasce (Post 991174)

Further analysis of the picture:
Size is 336 by 237
The RGB values of the red in the triangle is 237, 27, 36

The 237 comes up twice... and 336, which cannot be a legal RGB color, reappears as 36 in the blue channel

Suspicious...

Originally Posted by BJC (Post 991178)

I think this is very right except one thing.

The first game hint was not the cover for locomotion. It was actually the cover for Little Eva's greatest hits, one of the songs being Locomotion.

The second hint, as someone pointed out, appears to be the same one used in the FIRST 20th aniversery logo minus some key features.

Both hints, however, have been stripped of words and dishinguishing marks so as to make the connection dificult.

Putting 2 and 2 togeather it seems to me that this points at taking the "greatest hits" of the last 20 years of FRC and rolling it up into one game.

Originally Posted by BJC (Post 991178)

I think this is very right except one thing.

The first game hint was not the cover for locomotion. It was actually the cover for Little Eva's greatest hits, one of the songs being Locomotion.

The second hint, as someone pointed out, appears to be the same one used in the FIRST 20th aniversery logo minus some key features.

Both hints, however, have been stripped of words and dishinguishing marks so as to make the connection dificult.

Putting 2 and 2 togeather it seems to me that this points at taking the "greatest hits" of the last 20 years of FRC and rolling it up into one game.

Originally Posted by iblis432 (Post 991192)

Perhaps it's not WHAT was taken away but the fact that it WAS taken away. Game pieces can't be reused? Or instead of a game piece coming into the game during endgame, it is removed during endgame. Or we have something built on the field and have to take it down. Or better yet, that game (i forgot the name) where you take bricks out of the tower without letting the tower fall. I can hear the animation now "if a team takes a high brick, its 2 points, and if a team takes a low brick, its 4 points, however, if a team causes the tower to collapse, they lose 25 points. There are a total of 6 towers on the field, 3 blue, and 3 red. You are allowed to score points on an opponents tower only during the last 30 seconds of the match." XD