2012 Kickoff Discussion
 

I think the topic title is self-explanatory, let's just have a thread to keep all the discussion of what's going on at kickoff in this one thread.



Pretty excited if you ask me.

Link to the stream on nasa tv:
http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/2012_kickoff.php


*If there already is a thread for this, please lock/delete this, my apologies ::rtm::

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30 minutes left!!
I wouldn't be surprised at all if the CD servers couldn't handle the traffic.
Good Luck Everyone!

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The 2012 game is almost here! Good luck everyone!

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Arrrgh... so angry that Mike and Justin are lagging and that my school connection blocks FIRST chat and FRC Bingo!

Y Kickoff no start sooner?!?!?!?!?!?

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anyone got live feed?

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The elevator music is better than most, good start to the season.

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wait the broadcast is on nasa tv? yes?

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i agree, but it's getting to me...

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the broadcast starts at 10am est right?

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i've seen 9, 9:30, 10, 10:30... so i've been playing the waiting game while watching the orion spacecraft being dunked

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same here. 10:04 Eastern.

note- the nasa TV schedule says it starts at 10:00... lies? a hint?

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I hope it survives, after the work I put into moving everything to this new server. (Double the resources compared to last year.)

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did anyone else hear dean talking about steven colbert on the live feed earlier?

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The feed is live at the moment, but the actual content doesn't come up till 10:30 EST

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:confused: I don't see it on NASA TV. Bummed OUT!

Maybe the primary stole the satellite truck?

It is 7:18 PST. I see an old tape of the ISS.

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music with a mysterious, detective, elevator theme is playing.

Calling the name of the game "Eye Spy" or something.

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keeps showing 20th season sign... (repeat of 2011 season?)

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All I'm seeing is a revolving FIRST logo and the words "20th season." The elevator music stopped. :(

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Screen go black for anyone else?

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Nasa TV now shows a still image sign saying, FIRST Kickoff at 10:30

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Looks like we are 11 months early!

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December 7, 2012?

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Yep, screen's black for me, too. 1 minute to go, though!

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Notice the bouncing green ball.

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Colbert? Awesome!! :D

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Yes!!!! Colbert Report!! Apparently Comedy Central sent out an email about this.

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Finally! It started :D

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any one see that see-saw looking platform on the screen?

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Balance, see-saw, hint.

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Balancing?!!

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Its all about that teeter totter

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thats kind of scary not gonna lie.

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oh no, they brought back 2001. say hello to one alliance?

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Balancing could be the "uUu" from Bill's Blog

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"Needless to say, my Roomba will be making my toast from now on"
-Colbert

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2001? Oh dear God please no.....

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Maybe you have to use your body (via Kinect) to help the robot balance? O_O

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Brilliant

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Looks like coopertition bonus will be important....

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agreed.

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I must've missed it - what'd they say?

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Flipping or inverting something?

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Bill Clinton said that coopertition is important this year in this game.



Also game hint 2: "Two Black Box Robots" From twitter.

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Something to the effect of "the coopertition bonus will be more important then ever this year"

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Woodie Flowers writing things backwards? Hint?

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Field design written by Dr. Flowers?

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Nope just skill

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like backwards little eva meaning backwards logos from last year.

plus, woodie is busted. he is tracing hidden white lines, which is later sped up in editing. hint?

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There's only thousands of smart people out there?

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and there was the Gracious Professionalism comment....

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Bingo!!!!!!!

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Did anyone else's sound cut out for a few seconds when he was writing "informed"?

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Already? I wanted to play, but I can't get the link through the school filters... :(

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Anyone else really want the Why FIRST thing he did as a slide or background photo?

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Yep its doing it a lot actually. And here comes the square.

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Probably to not have the obnoxious squeeking, I saw a tweet saying it was REALLY loud on the loud speakers

Bingo!

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OMG its the triangle circle ...umm what?

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Its a bridge..... bridge= balancing.

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hey thats no square... or is it?

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Aaaaaaand that's a game hint

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nope. a ramp. robot x games?

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Wait, what? Fractal what? y u no draw normal logo, flowers?

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Doesn't look like it...yet...
...And then he draws a square around it.

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that's a ramp/teeter totter...uh oh

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Plane in the background?

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Looks like a helicopter in the background.

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igfht well...our feed just skipped over woooody

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sounds like a playground... now where is the swing? and monkey bars? :eek:

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Anyone having problems with bandwidth/choppy video?

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It's a helicopter, but I'm guessing that's a Yale thing, not a FIRST hint. or at least I HOPE it's not!

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Ack!!! Major lag and losing video feed at IUPUI kickoff in Indianapolis.

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Muhtar's holding water...WATER GAME :ahh:

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The feed is live and up, but lag is horrible!

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Well, helicopters have to have really good balance... and there was that Kinect-powered helicopter that was pretty popular online when the Kinect first came out...

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Yeah, on the high bandwidth stream. Medium is fine.

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Yeah we've been having problems, try switching to a lower resolution, that did it for us.

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All this water talk from the CEO of Coca-Cola...

WATER GAME!

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It's a representation of our bottled-up energy.

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Oh boy, time to take a nap...

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But you will miss all the fun

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It'll probably only be 12 minutes.

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Dean's here, everyone take five. Or twenty-five -- you won't miss much. XD

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yes, but its also just Dean Kamen....

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If your lagging, try switching to NASA. Helped us in Minneapolis MN.

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Agreed, that's why I'm happy I'm at home this year, and not at an Kickoff location...I can just walk away from the computer for a little while!

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But Dean may drop a hint

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Here is Kansas City, KS we are on the NASA channel and we are not having any issues.

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Taking the opportunity to switch wireless connections to something better... :)

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Thanks, it works great. I can actually see movement :D

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will it really help

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I don't think so, the programmers are in charge of it. ;)

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Romeo and Juliet -> Westside Story= same thing.... Logomotion V2? :ahh:

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1903.... Flying.. uhoh

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Basket ball, football?

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no choppieness in New Albany, IN. using NASA tv ustream...

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Anyone else at kick off have some weird tube thing sitting in front of them? Maybe its just part of the room i'm in...

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I'm thinking something like Aim High, throwing balls like basketball/football, but at the end there's a balance side of it... as in the two black box robots that need to balance using the kinect maybe??

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I think with less than an hour to go before we get an actual game we are far far beyond game hints. Game hints are so Friday.

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Oh come now Ed. You can't stop speculating until the curtain falls!