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Originally Posted by TimTheGreat
How did previous game hints relate to their respective games?
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Correct me if I'm wrong on any of these, please:
2014: Numbers that turned out to be birth dates and assist totals for various athletes who led their respective sports in assists.
2013: Some numbers that were apparently a cipher for a poem, whose lyrics somewhat obtusely referenced a "great seal" (one side of the Great Seal of the US has a pyramid), and contained the word "dinner," which is eaten on plates, which are shaped similar to frisbees.
2012: A list of sensors that could be used for real-time goal counting.
2011: A picture of Little Eva standing next to a pole (minibots climbed poles that year), who had a song entitled "Locomotion" (the game was named "Logomotion"), and a picture of the FIRST logo (game pieces were shaped like the shapes from the FIRST logo).
2010: An out-of-context picture of a CAD of a small part of a field element (namely, the ball-return rail).
2009: A picture of a fish. Specifically, a "moon fish." The game was Lunacy. Yeah.
2008: Three of them that year. Teams were given an IR sensor - teams were allowed to give two-bit IR commands to their robots during autonomous that year. Coordinates that pointed to a statue of a tortoise and a hare in Boston (the game, Overdrive, involved racing). And the string "Vet hurdling FIRST tetra", which in addition to using the word "hurdling" (which was used to refer to throwing the track ball over the overpass in the game rules), was an anagram for "drive straight turn left."
Don't remember any other years.
Edit: Fixed some factual errors, added more information.