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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

Ok, so I've read everyones' posts up til this point and I'm still totally baffled. It's also kind of funny to me because analyzing this game hint is like analyzing poetry in English. So I guess those English skills are coming in handy, eh?

I'll add my two cents worth.
"five 'bots tangling with pasta" indicates that there will be five robots on the field. It’ll be 1v1v1v1v1. There won’t be official alliances, but there will be benefits for working together (similar to how BEST does it). There will be some game element that requires robot cooperation and extra points will be award based on completion of that element. Five robots also makes me think that the field will be pentagonal to make everything as balanced as possible. “tangling with pasta” indicates some sort of chaotic game because of the definitions of “tangle”. The shape (and composition?) mimics that of pasta.

I have no idea what the second line could possibly mean.

"and seeing Montana's green heights" is an obvious allusion to the camera. What else in FIRST "sees" besides the humans and the camera? Montana is referring to mountains, because all Montana is know for is its mountains and National Parks. "Heights" indicates an incline or something that the robots have to interact with because hills and mountains are often referred to as "heights".

I have no idea what they're going to do to us, but now I'm totally psyched and I can't wait till kickoff!!
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