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Im so tired right now, I read what was supposed to be Archimedes as arc-e-meanies, as in really mean people. Then when I read the Joker, I thought of this joker


I need some sleep.

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Forgive me if this has already been mentioned many times but here are my thoughts.

The first hint is a picture of the Little Eva album cover for "The Complete Dimension Recordings". The album about amounts to a "greatest hits" collection. This year will be the 20th game for FIRST. The second clue is simply a picture of the FIRST logo.

Adding the two clues together I interpreted it as possibly being a "greatest hits of FIRST" so to say. With it being a landmark year for FIRST, possibly a remake of a past game or elements from previous games combined for a new game.

Then again I may be completely over analyzing the clues :D

-Sam

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Someone on team 279 suggested the almost same exact thing

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my team did some thinking of their own. the chick sang locomotion,so we may have to pulll something

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We already know this. Read the past posts

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One thing I noticed was "little" from the first hint. now that I see the second hint, all I can think of is the childs game where you have to put a circle prism in a circle hole. and most kids try to put the rectangular prism in the circle hole.

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Whipped this up for fun. Not sure what I'm really doing to it yet, but it looks intense.

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That's xcellent, how would the game play out?

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Not sure. Maybe something like Overdrive where the idea is to pass balls over the alliance's colored bars...

Or my "hook" game piece idea and you need to hang big hooks on the bars, but you get those from your triangle area.

Still thinking.

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I hope you make it on to the GDC! You would make a great addition! Thanks for all the sketches you have provided during the hint threads!

15 hours and ticking! Let the games begin! :)

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Everyone that gets the plans early have signed non-disclosure agreements and they are not supposed to tell you or anyone else what they get. And, the plans they receive do not come with the game piece (or at least not in the past 19 games) so they are probably mistaken about what they are seeing.
I guess we will know tomorrow.

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Probably wrong. They may have been talking about how it takes about an hour to build/assemble the part of the field that they have been given to set up, not the game piece.

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I don't think any of you got the comedy behind what he said!:D

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Now that it's the night before kickoff, I'll give my thoughts on these hints (I'm most likely to be wrong anyways)

The first hint strongly suggested 'loco-motion' was what they were getting at. I believe that this will reference 'crazy motion' that the robots will be forced to do, due to the requirements put on the drivetrains (see further)

The second hint suggests that something will be missing (the missing TM in the logo) that has been standard since ... well almost forever.

Hence, my belief that the drivetrains this year will not be allowed motors, and will instead be required to move through pneumatic power.

I also believe that the game will be a variant of a previous game ... keeping with the greatest hits theme and the mirrored album cover.

Here's to hoping I'm wrong :yikes: