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Of course it's going to be a water game look at all the factors: On the hint the first part number was 1492, like columbus that has to do with water if you didnt know!!::rtm::

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That sounds plausible:

(1) 1492, Columbus sailed with his alliance of three ships
(2) 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh sailed to the new world in search of new settlements and other things (gold)
(3) 1606, the Dutch discover Australia
(4) 1732, George Washington was born, revolutionary !! (bit of a reach)
(5) 1738, Daniel Bernoulli published his famous treatise HYDRODYNAMICA, also, the bottle opener is invented (a real reach . . .)

There are also the four digit numbers of 2711 and 9324, which I leave to the next generations(s).

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I agree that there's a lot of water dealing with those numbers and it would be cool to have a water game. However, we are dealing with FIRST and a water game seems unlikely.

One thing that I have noticed with those numbers is a lot of numbers mentioned by R2D2DOC deal with exploration, discovery, or invention. Of course, 1732 is an odd number as the only thing that I could find was President Washington's birthday. Maybe it deals with a revolution of ideas?

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Can I just /facepalm this thread? No, maybe that's a little mean.

You forgot the big 100th anniversary of the Titanic! I agree with TofuRama, though, that there is more evidence of an exploration-themed or rather unnavigable field than of a field with water.

And honestly, who could tolerate a game where the field wouldn't stop leaking? Because this is FIRST, and a lot of professional design work and manufacturing care always gets turned into a duct-tape mess by volunteers and high schoolers.

I enjoy the water game speculation as much as the next guy (or maybe poster), but it's obviously impractical and absurd.

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I don't think I'll ever give up on a water game idea...haha :)

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Give it up, it will NEVER happen. End of story!

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To Admins/Moderaters/Brandon Martus-

Maybe I'm complaining too much, but can we please make a specific subforum purely for water game talk? Sure, the water game talk was humorous when andy baker or dave lavery cracked a joke about it years ago, but now, it's quite frankly annoying, old, and filling Chief Delphi with unnecessary, unhelpful threads. CD is supposed to be about helping people, right?

If anything, could someone please move this thread from CD Forum Support to Chit-Chat?

Just my thoughts/suggestions.
-Duke

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Nope, that's not it at all.

Give it up, it ALREADY happened. Don't believe me?

Rug Rage. (Wasn't the entire field, granted. But still...)

2009 had damp carpets at some events.
There was a watery demo in 1999 without a single failure.
I believe that one of the Florida offseasons had at least one year with a rather soaked field.

NURC, run by FRC0842.



Actually, my first response to this thread (which I didn't post) was something to the effect of "N00B. Not worth the effort to respond at this time, especially with the placement." My second response was something to the effect of "obvious troll is obvious". My third response is seen above.

My current response, you ask? Y'all are officially certified as crazy, and sent outside to go play in the snow (or whatever ground covering you may currently happen to have in your area) until 1/7/12. Yes, you may come in to eat and sleep.

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Maybe I'm hallucinating here, but wasn't there also a game wayyyyy back when (maybe rug rage) where the balls were filled with water? (Or, is that what you were referencing to when you said "Rug Rage. (Wasn't the entire field, granted. But still...)"

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Precisely, my dear Watson.

http://usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/1993-rug-rage

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listen up buddy! :mad:

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Our robot doesn't mind being underwater...it's almost like she was designed for it!

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Squirrel, would you mind posting a link to the blog about the build of that thing? I remember reading it but I seem to have lost the link.

Mods, consider this a second call to get this moved to Rumor Mill.


Excellent value added to the discussion with this comment.

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The link in my signature will get you pretty close, but here's the main build, from 2010

http://www.selectric.org/nurc10/index.html

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Titanic sank in 1912.

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Are you implying that 2012 isn't the 100th anniversary of a 1912 event?

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Then let me just help things along --


- water game!!!!

Note that this is being said while I am sitting in a half-full bathtub in one of the salon cabins aboard a friends Oyster 825 sailboat that is currently traversing the Panama Canal. Arrayed around me are 116 one-litre bottles of Evian, all on display beneath a huge portrait-size poster of Niagara Falls. And I am wearing water wings.

-dave


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Shouldn't you be under a bridge somewhere?

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How come CD doesn't have a "Like" button???

-dave



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2012 - 1912 = 100.

Math wins.

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116 bottles, you say? I wonder if that number has any significance.

I also noted the drink of choice - you think we are naivE?

Enjoy your vacation. Take the next 242 days off. See you in August.

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I'm totally joking but this must mean that there will be 116 floating game pieces on a half full field that is shaped like New York (right under Niagara Falls). Robots must fit through a small gap or fly (panama canal and water wings).

Ridiculous enough?

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Add in an excuse for robots wearing tiaras and drive teams wearing tights and you're almost there. :rolleyes:

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DONT GIVE THE GDC IDEAS LIKE THIS!! :ahh:

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I have before, maybe they'll take them sometime. Personally I really want to see Pretty Pretty Princess Bots.

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Pink and purple alliances?

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FRC116 is the team from Herndon, VA that the Laverly's were/are involved in

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You come back with 1 post. ONE POST. And get everyone excited about everything. People are making speculations, every word you say is likely to be a hint of something. We are now putting down our homework to research what you mean by anything you say.

You ARE the robotics god! :ahh: You have the power everyone wishes they had!

The only problem is, in the event of something bad, you will never be taken seriously.

Eg.

Dave: "I'm choking!"
CD person 1: "Is that a hint?!"
CD person 2: "The word king is in choking! Maybe it's a king of the hill game!"
Dave: "Help!"
CD person 1: "Our goal in the game must be to help people!"
CD person 2: "Let's go create a thread on this and see the crazy unlikely things people come up with!"

The two leave, and just because I like Dave, I'll end the story by saying he stopped choking and walked away.

And that was a lot longer than what I thought it would be. Oh well, too late now ! :D

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I'd like you to meet 公主

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/attempts translation
/gives up

Well, three years of Mandarin were lost on me. For all of you too lazy to use teh Google, that's just Chinese for Princess.

A scissorlift is not what I expected to see at all last year though. Very cool.

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Needs more tiara. (Someone shoop this for me kthx) Also I saw your team at TNT right? I don't recall too many tutus. In fact, the only pink I saw was 233's robot (their drive team was dressed as 217)

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Well, actually, three. But who is counting? And if you include this one, then four.


-dave



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Oh Dave, how we missed you. Pre-kickoff just hasn't been the same without (over)analyzing your every word.

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Four posts must equal four robots! 2 robots on each alliance in the 2012 game would mean that there is a smaller playing field and smaller pieces (tennis balls?). This post tells us so much.

Over analyzation complete.

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Dave,
To say you made my day would be an understatement.

P.S. I feel so special that THE Dave Lavery quoted me on CD!!! :D

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I'd rather see 1v1v1v1...


And water wings mean inflatable bumpers, right? No more pool noodles that are impossible for teams to find in the middle of January when they realize they forgot to buy them in the summer, right?


Gotcha covered.

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Woah. Now THAT'S awesome! Great shopping skills (Photoshopping)! Now if we could only make all of the other robots do that... ;)

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It was a nightmare. "Princess" is the reason that our team considers shear pins and lead screw nuts as consumable items.

We were at TNT, I was going to have my hairbow but I went with the tuxedo instead.
Also, I'd like to repress the semifinals match against the pink team's alliance.

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Titanic did sink in 1912 100 years later first will have a water game

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Sounds more like an endorsement for an ice game.

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Ice game?!? Now that would be a cold venue.

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An ice game would give an unreasonable advantage to Canadian teams and ruin the Floridians.

Also, now I'm kicking myself for letting the team throw out our field-sized piece of regolith. :mad:

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really? 233 seems to have ice :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_50WiONRTpc&context=C2f0dfADOEgsToPDskJmZP vaFMRsgGEQZBCtAQ1G

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Hey, Florida isn't always warm. I'm pretty sure that I slipped on a frozen puddle after a concert tonight. It's not even the coldest part of winter yet!

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Sitting at a balmy 68 right now in Tampa. Dunno what you are talking about.

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What about the Israelis? I am not a geography expert, but I havn't heard about it freezing down in Israel.

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It's not common, but it happens. The last time I was there, it snowed enough to nearly shut Jerusalem down for half a day.

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I'm in Lake City, it's almost at the Georgia border. Last year it managed to snow here, go figure. :ahh:

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BRB, gonna go enjoy this gorgeous night on my balcony. /gloating

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Hey, Michigander! You're going soft! I hope an Alberta Clipper makes it down there!

(OK, so I've got freezing fog here in South Dakota...)

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Look, I'm from New York City. If you're south of the Staten Island Ferry, you're as good as tropical. If you're north of it, you're in upstate (even if you're in the Canadian part of upstate), the land of ice and snow. We also believe there is a suburb of the city known as New Jersey, which is in our climate zone.

Our sense of geography has been honed by years of excellent training.

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Andrew, what are you doing in Florida? Co-op? If so, how'd you get so lucky? Or have you finally graduated? (Note, I say that as I'm in Atlanta...)

Speaking of which, the 10 day forecast has us in the 60s the entire time. They one back home? 30s. ...Why am I leaving?

Uhh, to stay kinda on-topic: Atlanta gets ice on occasion. We all know the car drivers can't drive on it, can the robot drivers drive on it though?

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Hey it was down to 50 last week. I almost thought about putting a long sleeve shirt on. Lemme say, doing holiday shopping in sandals was a weird feeling.

I finally graduated.