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Re: 2011 Game Hint #1

My wife may be right because you folks certainly have a lot more imagination than I do.

It's all very straightforward. It is well known that the GDC uses people as stand-ins for robots when developing the game. We just need to consider Little Eva as a robot stand-in. What is she doing? Hanging onto a column. So we have a robot hanging onto a column.

Now let's go back to what we thought was a red herring from Dave back in November, a tennis ball. This new information makes it obvious.

My official game prediction:
The scoring object this year will be tennis balls. It could be the oversize tennis balls some mentioned in the red herring thread. On the field will be a four inch diameter pipe (column), probably eight to ten feet tall. Or maybe two pipes, one for each alliance. The GDC is good with these details. The top of the pipe will be covered with a spring loaded cover attached to a sleeve around the top 18 inches of the pipe. Scoring is accomplished by dropping the tennis balls down the pipe. But before you can do this a robot has to climb the pipe, grab the sleeve and put enough weight on the sleeve to open the cover.

I've been waiting for this game for years. This'll be awesome.

Greg

P.S. Humor has been attempted in this post. Sometimes my attempts at humor don't work so well.
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