This is Team 1444s Christmas gift to everyone out there.
OK, so I've done some intense thinking and I believe this theory fits most of the aspects of the clue.
So the background is blue - like the Oceans of Earth - the oceans drive weather all around the world by affecting temperatures and pressures of landmasses near them. Now,
diamonds - as in the diamond plate - are also created under the influence of temperature and pressure. Now say you took 5 bananas, like the one seen in the background of the image. Bananas contain carbon, so if you placed them under intense pressure and heat, you would have five artificial diamonds. This takes an impressive pressure of about 8.3 GigaPascals, (
reference ) which is about 0.0
5 giga-torr. Artificial diamonds vary in clarity based on impurities in the substance that was used to make them. 5 bananas would probably produce a very cloudy and foggy diamond. This would look remarkably like the ice on a hockey rink. A hockey rink is also rounded with flat sides, much like the rounded diamond plate would be if a pressure of about
5000 PSI was exerted on either side. I've also seen that the "5" appears to be in Arial font. System of a Down
(reference) has written a song called
Aerials. The first portion of this song is 3 mins and 50 seconds long - perhaps representing the round time. There is then a
Hidden track at 3:57 entitled
Arto, named after a musician. Perhaps, the robot will have to use tone recognition this year instead of vision from last year. The
5 is also bold.
BOLD appears to be an acronym for
Barcode of Life Data-Systems (reference). This group appears to deal with the organization and cataloging of the different species on earth based on DNA. Perhaps this means there will be 5 pucks that need to be shot into goals in some specific order.
Now that the game is out good luck with your designs! Happy New Year and you can thank us by bringing some good competition.
