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If you ever see a hint about a water game, remember this.

After you remember that, then you can continue speculating :p.



Happy New Years to people who live far East enough!!

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I'm extremely sorry for this.
-D

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i lol'd irl

but anyway, its been over a week now since bill posted his last blog (which was on the 21st) and he usually posts every 3 or 4 days. Now that it is the new year, I'd expect one coming very soon

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FRC meme series. who's up for it? :D

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The picture in the last three posts is not showing for me (IE or Chrome). What is it?

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Sorry for this too.

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Ok, before this thread becomes a random picture thread, lets get back on task (even though I lolled at Ninja Bait's one).

Everyone check Bill's Blog, the FIRST website, and anything else the next 2 days to check for a hint asap.

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Oh might as well...

We should also check Will.i.am's blog, just in case he has a dope hint!

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^This. This is gonna be on the flyer I'm gonna give my team for the pre-season meeting. :)

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Oh god, look what i've started. Again, I'm sorry ChiefDelphi. :rolleyes:

-D

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4 days 18 hours 47 minutes and 34 seconds until kickoff and still no second hint.

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I think you mean we have 4 days 18 hours 17 minutes and 33 seconds for a hint to show up! :)

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If we havn't received a second hint by now, I don't think we will get one. My guess is that we came really close with the first hint, and they see no need for a second hint.

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These memes are awful. I love 'em. :)

Jane

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I don't think so, because I remember last year people on here and on my team put "logomotion" together based on the two hints, so I don't know.

I think we're all just really excited for kickoff and it's making us impatient for this 2nd hint

4 days!!!!!

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The truth ^

TBH: We may get another hint. Im just hoping that if everyone shows enough impatience the GDC will give in.
;-)

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I would predict a second hint when they release the encrypted manual--likely tomorow or wednesday.

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I think that everyone needs to wait for at least one more day. Last year's second hint came out 4 days before Kickoff. Check this post for proof:
http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2011...o-kickoff.html

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But last year we guessed the name, not the game. The first hint this year was directly related to the game, and therefore easier to guess. Knowing "Logomotion" last year in retrospect told us very little about the game, however with this year's hints we got a game field, with prospective pieces to be used. We could have already guessed this.

I'm still on your side of guessing another hint will be released, but I just wanted to share that little tidbit of information. :)

4 days! and some extra hours, minutes, and seconds which i'm not willing to count with

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Tomorrow is Tuesday.

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yea sorry, im screwed up with the days after a long christmas break

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In regards to the hint:
I'm not even gonna touch this discussion.

However, FIRST memes?! Right up my alley.
You ALL need to see http://www.firsterfalcon.tumblr.com and follow it/submit to it/whatever. I came across it one night and lol'ed for about 10 minutes straight.

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Best Tumblr ever! I was lolling at the first one! The rest were better! How'd you find this? One does not simply wonder onto a FIRSTMemes Tumblr.

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This is just too good. Me and one of my teammates came into school to work on a video script, and lets just say everyone was giving us strange looks as we read it.:D

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Perhaps the lack of a second hint is a clue suggesting that, given the games nature, a second hint would reveal too much? Maybe it's just too difficult to insinuate details of the game without giving away too much information.

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Where's Dave's Red Herring when you need one. Man I miss those days.

I wish they would come out with Game Hint 2 so I can stop checking CD every hour while I am at work. I don't care how obscure it is or if it is related to the name of the game (which tells us nothing) I just need a hint. LOL I would much rather be thinking about pure speculation that leads to nothing for the last 3 days than wondering if we will ever get a game hint.

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Are you REALLY sure you want to rock that boat? :D


-dave




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And I said to DLav sit down, sit down you're rockin' the boat...



#MusicalGame2012

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Red Herring :ahh:

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Did we just get a red herring? Oh joy!

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"rock that boat". I'll do it... WATER GAME! possibly Titanic themed!

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Water Game ;)

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Clearly a rock climbing game.

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Why are you all so intent on trying to guess the game now? Won't it be so much easier to guess after they release that manual about the game on the 7th? The manual is such an obvious hint, I really don't see why they don't keep the manual to themselves and let us listen to the wonderful and exciting speeches and actually force us to think to figure out the game?
But I guess that after the week one competitions, everyone would know for sure and then it would be no fun...

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The manual that was released is heavily encrypted, and nobody can actually read its contents. It's just released to alleviate the loads on FIRST servers this Saturday. FIRST will tell us the decryption password during kickoff (after the speeches). But the early release of the encrypted manual won't tell us anything about the game.

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But it will after the 7th, which is what I was saying in my post.

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Definite article game. ;)

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Not even dave knows what the game is.

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We could probably make a meme out of this kind of hint analysis. Don't tell SuperNerd!

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Too late. ;)

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I just about died when I saw that Bill's long awaited post was NOT a second hint. :( :( :(

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What's worse is when he linked to the post on his Facebook (where I first saw it) he said "Did you miss me? I'm back.". That really got my hopes up we had a second hint, but alas...

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New FIRST meme: Trolling Dave. Quick, someone get a picture cutout of Dave and put it against a striped background! And then add an awesome caption!

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Well it'll be here any day now. The kickoff is this Saturday, and last year's second clue was released just days before the kickoff, so there probably just is no lack of a clue as a clue. Any day now...

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Day?! You have no idea when the game hint ninjas will strike! They are fast, sneaky little things that post a hint when you are least expecting it! Days? It could be hours, minutes, seconds even! It could have been posted while you're reading this! Constant alert. Keep all eyes on Bill's Blog, email blasts, the FIRST website, and ANYTHING else possible. Kick off is less than 4 days away.

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That's why I set Bill's Blog as a homepage for my browser.:cool:

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This year's game exists. Thanks for the reassurance, Dave.

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Yar. It be a fictional pirate game.

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A game to cure malaria?

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Okay, NOW I think we officially over-analyzed Dave's comments...::rtm::

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Well given that pirates ride on water-fairing vessels, better known as ships, one can only assume that based on this superficial "forensic" analysis, we will have the much anticipated Water Game.

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http://memegenerator.net/Trolling-Dave-Lavery

Go wild.

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You are my hero! :D

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Ladies and gentlemen, a meme is born.

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Already posed it on Tumblr along with the FIRSTer Falcon meme. It's getting kinda popular.

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You know... this could be worse than the real dlavery deal.

I wouldn't have thought that possible.

Jane

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Euch. Tumblr. Can we resurrect /r/frc?

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Sure. I don't use Tumblr, BTW, but there's already a FIRST meme on it, I thought it would help increase popularity.

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Back on track here. In 2011, the second game hint was in the decryption test. This year, the only thing in the decryption test was a link to the first game hint, so what? Big deal, right? Wrong. They said the first game hint. Implying what? There's more to come.

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This thread has been alive for 13 almost 14 days, and still no new game hint. With a long wait like this, you know FIRST is up to something. They're releasing this hint late for a reason. Something tells me it's a pretty big hint, and they want us to have as little time to figure it out as possible. It most likely has something to do with HOW the game is played, and not the game name.

So now we do the math: How long will it take the entire CD community to figure out a huge clue, and then build ideas off of it? Throw in a half a day to a full day just to ensure they can't use the time too wisely, and we should have our date by subtracting those days from kickoff.

Imma say tomorrow will have about a 60% to 65% chance of game hint, and Thursday going up to 80% to 85%. Those are random numbers based off of no math.

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I'm pretty there was a discussion about the use of #1, #2, etc. last year. They may have even said "The 2011 Game Hint" (singular).

...and then we got another hint.

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Perhaps the lack of a hint is, in fact, a hint? What has everyone been expecting? A hint, and for there to be minibots this year. Perhaps the lack of a hint means no minibots?

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That was discussed a while ago on this thread. While it is still an option, we deemed it unlikely.

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maybe our minibots will be deployed in some sort of water filled container for the end game... making it not a full on water game... but having a water element...

i'm hoping our minibots do something more involved than just climbing a pole this year (altho that was an interesting challenge at the time)... but i wouldn't want them interacting with the host bots in the main field area (i'm not sure all 6 davids could survive against 6 goliaths)... maybe they'll have sectioned off areas or an elevated platform... where they play football.

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Fingers crossed.

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Quick, everyone find the skin cells Dave has left lying around this year! The DNA must have a clue in them!:ahh: :ahh:

:D

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Minibots in a blow up kiddie pool. I like it.

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MiniBOATs ;)

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Can we put miniGUNs on our robots to "sink" the miniBOATs?

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As soon as I saw the update on bills blog I was like omg what could the hint be then I saw it was just an update........ So disappointed

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Maybe they aren't giving us a game hint in order to for us to speculate on wilder and wilder ideas, getting farther from the truth, so that when the kickoff comes around, we will all be so shocked that we have a mass heart attack, keel over and they don't have to do anything for the rest of the year. The only reason that they would want to not have to do anything would be because the regionals and fields required a lot of set up, and since pools require a lot of set up, it must be the water game.

obviously.

Edit: I forgot something. Since we will keel over, it must be a water game because ships have keels

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Several Ideas for water game ......
heavy field and setup time
possbile game tht elevated and rocks maybe
20th yr of titanic

i like the idea of miniBoats racing around the field which a sensor is mounted to the host bot and controled by the kinect by human signals

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I'm sorry to say that it will be the 100 year anniversary of the titanic sinking and the 15 anniversary of the movie coming out.


Also...

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o woops well i stand corrected

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Well with 2 days and 20 hours remaining until kickoff it seems like we will not get a second game hint

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No way, I'm still hopeful! They must give us more than one hint! We will demand it! We will riot and picket! We will boycott (ok maybe not)!

Has there ever been only one hint? I seem to remember not...

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The lack of a hint is a hint in itself.

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That is funny but imagine if the hint #2 is release on Friday the day before kickoff

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Back in My Day...

We didn't get ANY hints, and we LIKED IT! (1992-2002)
We only got ONE hint, and we LIKED IT! (2003-2007)
We got THREE hints, and we ALMOST SOLVED THEM! (2008)
We got TWO hints, and we LIKED IT! (2009-2011)
We got ONE hint, and we WANT MORE! (2012)

You kiddies don't know how good you have it! Back in my day, all we got for hints were equations, song lyrics, and unintelligible riddles about John Neun, purple, pasta, 5 'bots, and similar matters, if we were lucky! Then we got a picture! And then some wise guy decided that multiple hints were better than one hint, so they started giving us too many!

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Another flash update earlier..... I got so excited and then crushed in an instance. This suspense is killing me >.<

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Watch them release the final game hint one hour before kick off.

Then Chief Delphi will be flooded by people waiting for the broadcast while surfing the internet on their smartphones.

People will be too busy discussing the second hint to listen to the broadcast, and we will have to rely on the manual.

IT WILL BE LIKE THE APOCALYPSE (Or maybe not).

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I still predict a hint release today.

Flash update IV. Either that or Bill goes all the way to Flash XI, and then he says 'fully updated' and we get a hint.

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I see what you did there

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I think the next hint is "flash" meaning fast meaning something to do with those high speed counters

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That seems very logical. Now what is a clever game name they could come up with regarding speed?

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...Overdrive...

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Rapid Fire

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Laser tag?

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Flash Flood? (oh god no)
Flash Focus?
Hot Flash?

Edit: all the recent games have been clever wordplays on one word. There goes my ideas
Edit2: BoulderDASH anyone? Actually, this fits in with Daves "ROCK the boat" red herring, and Bills PEAK behind the curtain (sort of) I know im really grasping at straws but hey, its entertaining.

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Since we know that there will be a lot of lights in this year's game, that "FLASH" might be what its codenamed/called, all the teams are being provided with Kinects, and that for some reason Bill (FRC director) posted Flash I, II, & III.... what does all this mean?
A game where there are flashing lights and the object is to control your robot to somehow interact w/ the lights?
Use the Kinect as part of the game (extra points)?
Do 1, 2, 3 have anything to do w/ the game or is it just to mess w/ people and are there more "Flash Update #" to come?
Just WATCH, they're probably just messing with our heads...
what do you think?

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I think you might have something there. High-speed counters from Hint #1, by my count, are enough for 4-6 goals/field with spares in case something takes a direct hit from something fired rapidly.

The lots of lights from Hint #1 are the RSLs and stack lights for the two new fields.

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You and FIRSTtm134 bring up a really good point with "rapid fire." thats probably a lot more realistic and it goes along with previous games. but im feeling that the game might be a little more complicated this year due to the addition of the kinect.

The problem with hint #1 was that the list was basically the same as last years. one of my mentors told me that the only difference was that there was an addition of lights or something along the lines.

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This may sound ridiculous and I may be reading too much into it because it says on or after, but on the FIRST WPI Think Tank webpage, it states
Perhaps they will release a game hint the day before kickoff? OR they will throw someone out from the GDC into CD to be fed to the starving hint-hunters of FRC! :D

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Mightn't they have gotten the date wrong?

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Definitely a possibility that GDC would annouce the game hint a day before just to either annoy us or to create a hint so obscure that everyone will say that it does not make any sense. To give an example last years game hint #2 was the first logo which made sense after the game was released but made no sense before hand.

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No, I don't think they got the date wrong because on the post, it says there was already one edit. I'd guess they'd fix it if they had it wrong.

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I think that at this point, the hint may be released at kickoff if at all. Bill, I wish you would *please* give us another!

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Am saddened. Spent hours checking chief delphi...