Maybe we can divine this year's competition by looking at hints of past years:
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Originally Posted by the Game Design Committee
2005: "While wearing Amethyst colored glasses, John Neun gave George Burns the following riddle: 'Look closely and you will see something between Pi, You and Me.'"
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Triple Play involved stacking giant tetrahedrons in a game of tic-tac-toe. I wasn't involved back then, so I don't really know that much.
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Originally Posted by The same people, presumably
2006:
"five 'bots tangling with pasta
a game piece obsessed with a shovel's show
and seeing Montana's green heights"
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Aim High involved launching foam balls (meatballs?) at targets, represented with green lights ("Montana's green heights"). The shovel could refer either to a robot shoving balls into the lower goals or to ball-collection device.
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2007:
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The game involved placing inflatable tubes on long "spider-legs," each of which ended with one of the pictured circles representing the column.
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Originally Posted by frcteams@usfirst.org
2008:
Hint #1: An IR reciever
Hint #2: Three numbers (see discussion here)
Hint #3: "Vet hurdling FIRST tetra"
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Anyone see a pattern here?