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Re: Why do we care about the game hints?

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Originally Posted by thefro526 View Post
This is second hand information, but:

In 2002, apparently teams were given a BOM for one of the mobile goals, but no instructions as to how to build it as a hint. Teams who competed in 2001 were familiar to some extent with FRC style mobile goals. Some teams were able to build a relatively accurate mobile goal and began prototyping grabbing mechanisms around the parts.
The day before kickoff in 2002, Joe Johnson released a series of bets about the game, based on the hints and past games.

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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson View Post
Dr. Joe's Tote Board
  1. 2 vs. 2 format : odds 1:1
    Accepted by Evan "The Kidd" Doyle
  2. One Goal : odds 1:1
    Accepted by Stephen Rawls
  3. Final Position(s) of Goal(s) Figures in Score : odds 2:1
    Accepted by Ken Lueng
  4. Torroids (e.g. inner tubes, inflatable floatie toys, hoola hoops, etc) are a game piece : odds 2:1
    Accepted by Evan "The Kidd" Doyle
  5. If balls, no smaller than 9 inch diameter : odds 2:1
  6. Flat Floor (nothing larger than 1 inch to climb) : odds 3:1
    Accepted by Justin Hirt
  7. Robots Off Floor (e.g. hanging on goal) Figure in Scoring : odds 4:1
    Accepted by Jordan A.
  8. Goal has all three of the following attributes : odds 5:1
    1) a double decker plywood structure on casters with the flanges and nipples separating the decks
    2) 1" PVC conduits making up an outer fence of vertical pales
    3) 3" PVC conduit making up a veritical column in center of the goal
    Accepted by Dima
Of those, he was 50% correct (1, 3, 6, and 8 were correct). Number 8 was obviously the hardest, and he nailed the goal.



It seems unlikely that anyone used Joe's predictions to do prototyping in the day between when the predictions were released and kickoff. However, it is possible that other people figured out the same things, and kept them secret better then Joe did.
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