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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

I only skimmed over the thread, so I apologize if anything here has been mentioned before.

The first thing that came to mind when reading Montana was Joe Montana. It seems I'm not the only one who thinks this either. Kinda lends to the idea of footballs for the game piece.

Then it came to thought that shovel could refer to a shovel pass in football, lending even more to the "football gamepiece theory". It could also mean we could get points for passing forward.

My first thought for "green heights" was the Ramp N' Roll hill back in '95. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it green? And it had a field goal on it. Perhaps we're moving footballs over a field goal on a hill for points.

Then there's the "five 'bots tangling with pasta". Sadly, pasta has a very broad definition. I thought of Rigatoni first, thinking that maybe there could be tubes/tunnels we need to go through. Then, I thought about your standard spaghetti, thinking of needing to pull ropes to get somewhere (possibly a random bot on another side of something). There could be a rope net of some sort as well. Or, in a suggestion I saw elsewhere in this thread, the goal could be shaped like a shell. It's my opinion though that the "five 'bots" could be a red herring (okay, I just really can't think of anything other than a pentagon for something).

Eddie's official (IOW, semi-crazy, but fun) guess: The game pieces will be footballs (heck, I'm willing to bet some Dew on this) colored for each team. There will be a bunch of long tubes/tunnels leading to and from the start, ball stations with one ball of each teams' color (around the outer walls and around the field), and the center goal, which will be a giant shell (actually, I'm thinking a large bowl ~10ft in diameter for this) on top of a circular hill. The idea is the smaller bots could go through the tunnels for quicker transit, while bigger robots have to go a longer way around various obstacles if they can't fit. A point for a ball in the goal, another point if the ball was passed to another robot before scoring (assuming there's alliances, you can add a point for each robot it touches, even if it's just two robots passing back and forth and chaining up massive points). Perhaps sort of a three point line where if a ball is shot and made, it's worth double. Maybe add a special neutral ball that starts in the center goal, and which ever team keeps it in the ball station next to their drivers' station gets 10 points. Of course, you can't have a hill without a bonus attached to it, so any bots on the hill at the buzzer get 5 points. And I'll be adventurous and suggest a pentagon field for this. Because I can.

And my longshot: We'll be hurling footballs over water while the field is shaking (look up Huang He; apparently, that's where the oldest signs of any type of pasta are found). And if that's true, I so get bragging rights for the year.

In conclusion: okay, the only thing I can really guess with at least 90% confidence is that we're throwing footballs (a game piece obsessed with a shovel's show - and seeing Montana's...), and there will be a circular hill involved ("green heights"). I also wouldn't be too surprised if there was a field goal involved ("Montana's green heights", related to the '95 goal). Would've been easier if I just got right to that, huh?

Final thought: has anyone thought of the possibility of Football not being the American version?

Last edited by EddieMcD : 26-12-2005 at 00:49.
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