[Joel J]

Originally Posted by burkey_turkey

after reading throuh more than 25 pages of speculation, i beleive i have an accurate summary of whats going on:

first off, i think we cna conclude it is not a water challenge. keep in mind that this is still a competitive game and people get pissed when something happens that mkaes them loose. if there is to be water, then there will be a great deal of inconsistancy to deal with. i dont think i even need to explain why i think the 'rogue' robot would be cool but completely NOT GONNA HAPPEN

so here is what is on my sticky note ive been keeping while reading:

-card game theme - (5 of diamonds...)
-step to climb - (the shadow of the circle looks like a step out of a pool)
-platform - (like the step, there is prolly a diamond platofrom somewhere)
-bad crop - puzzle? - (possibly future clues will fit onto this one like a puzzle)
-5 diff height platofroms + steps? - (speaks for itself, kind of)
-50? - (the and the circle makes 50. 50 something i dont know)
-SCREENSHOT - (most likely a cropped screenshot from the animation, -possibly cropped to hide something on the top or bottom of that circle, like it being mounted, and the blue stuff is fuzz to hide the game animation, a human player is barely visible on the right side)
-olympics - (five rings in the olympics? possibly an olympic game theme)
-pool, as in billiards - (that could be a cool game theme, circle looks like pool ball number 5)
-22" in diameter if riges are scaled - (if to scale, the plate would be about this size based on the riges)
-baseball! - (possibly bases activating for points or something? baseball theme quite probabal)
-goals on 4 corners like bb - (more baseball theme, goals on corners + center = 5)
-5 periods - (game play periods, autonomous + 4 more)
-inner tubes - (maybe stacked on poles)
-blue=square - (in the first logo, plus we are overdue for a square challenge - sq, circ, tri, circ, NOW)

thats what i have sumarized, i hope this either enlightens some, or helps others to not have to read quite so thoroughly b4 posting

PS

my personal thoughts: im thinking baseball; with diamond plated weight activated sensors on different sides as bases, points are scored at the end of each period for each of your bases that does NOT have a bot on it. ramps etc to climb over in the middle.

Good stuff..

What about another tangent:

What if the "diamond plate" is actually the moon? five moon? Fifth planet from the sun is jupiter...

what of that?