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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion
Seeing how this is the game hint thread, I will venture my guess prior to ranting. . . . then I will rant.
'First thing that came to mind when I saw the word pasta was pool noodles. I think that these are plenty sturdy to use as game pieces and they could be really fun to manipulate with a robot. As for the 5 'bots clue, how about if they give us vex kits (or similar) that allow us to make 5 robots per team. An alliance, then, might be made up of all the robots from one team. That would allow for a smaller (more economical) field also.
Montana's green heights. I am thinking that this isn't related to football. I figure this is a structure that resembles a mountain and perhaps something green that the CMU can pick up and track.
As for the shovel's show, the first thing that came to mind was a pile rather than a hole. Perhaps you have to make a pile of a certain color of pool noodles. That, again, would bring the CMU and green into play.
Yet another guess is that on top of the mountain is a randomly moveable hole with a green rim around it into which you have to place pool noodles that your robot has collected from the field. That 5th robot is a part of the playing field and it is actually a big robot that can pull or push your team's robot out of the hole when it falls in. For autonomous, you have to find the precisely placed/colored noodle that will release the other noodles or give you some related advantage.
Now for the rant. What's this about an extra piece that we have to buy? Didn't that $6,000 that we paid go towards the kit (as well as costs associated with putting on a big travelling show)? It seems that a $125 part, especially one discounted to $58 when purchased in bulk, could have been thrown into the box with the rest of our parts. Perhaps these are the afformentioned pool noodles. After all, we had to buy boxes for Stack Attack, PVC and end-pieces for tetras, etc. I guess that would make sense.
I guess I also just talked myself out of a rant.
Good luck teams!
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