Either I'm missing something here, or I have cause to be sorely disappointed at the fine folks posting here!
Having come back, and read EVERY darned post, didn't
anybody notice the infamous Dave's latest post (#48, on the page 24)? In the signature part on the bottom, it adds (and I think this is a new thing):
For the two - this season is for you.
Now, this could refer to some happy couple (or two separate individuals) who are of importance to FIRST, and who have something special going on. OR ... it might actually work with another theory I have.
Let's keep in mind, BTW, that last year's animation contest was called "Thinking Green", which was supposed to be about the environment (how that has to do with robotics, someone would have to explain to me).
I get to my theory this way. Let's assume that many of the previous posters are correct, and that if you stand at the given latitude and longitude, and look at the given bearing, that you see the "Globe Bar & Grill". I then ask you, what goes on at the
Globe Bar and
Grill?
My answer: "
Global Warming"
Who would be "the two" in Dave's new hint? How 'bout the two recipients of that Nobel Peace Prize (again, don't ask me what GW has to do with World Peace). If the organizers are into environmentalism (which they apparently are), surely they couldn't resist commemorating the Peace Prize news. A lot of scientists are riding this "train", and would consider these guys to be heroes literally saving the world with science.
So I humbly
suggest that this hint is trying to tell us that
this year's game has a theme associated with Global Warming. The IR (from the first hint) is even heat-related.
My second favorite theory is that it points to the Tortoise and Hare sculptures, but we still haven't had a volunteer actually go there and report on EXACTLY where the coordinates point to. The "For the two" doesn't work as well for me with this one, though, since it's just a couple of statues.