2013 Game Hint!

[Tottanka]

http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr.../blog-10-11-12
directs to this photo:
http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default...Game%20Lab.jpg

Let the fun begin.

[Jared Russell]

The GDC are no strangers to love.

[LightSpeedIII]

Originally Posted by Jared341

The GDC are no strangers to love.

They know the rules, but we do not.

[rsisk]

A third alliance on the field? The yellow alliance?

This hint has me rolling.

[Steven Donow]

This has been removed. Consider this a warning.

[MARS_James]

Originally Posted by stevend1994

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSLlZh9yelk

That made me smile more than the hint, but I am more interested in that it is on a cork board. Though the scouter in me would love the chance to scout a 3v3v3 game (Red, Blue, and Yellow)

Originally Posted by DMetalKong

It is also an anagram for 'A Slick Tyre' -> Slick -> Wet -> Water Game!

Don't say that it makes me think of lunacy which is not well thought of on my team

[Rangel(kf7fdb)]

It seems they included the metal bar/edge of the board as well. The metal bar kind of resembles a pole. Could this be a symbol that mini-bots are returning?

[IndySam]

TinEye gives back zero hits.

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by IndySam

TinEye gives back zero hits.

The photo is an original. Taken at 9:42 (Eastern) this morning, in New Hampshire, with an HTC Evo 4g smartphone. Good old exif.

(my code is compiling, give me a break)

[bardd]

Originally Posted by Jared341

(my code is compiling, give me a break)

http://xkcd.com/303/

[rmhooks573]

oh my goodness!! What does this mean!?!

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by rmhooks573

oh my goodness!! What does this mean!?!

It means 12 weeks of game hint speculation -

[Samwaldo]

personally, as a driver, i would LOVE a 3 minute match! more time, more competition, bigger scores

[wasayanwer97]

Red, blue, and yellow pins, photo of Rick Astly.... YES! IT'S A WATER CHALLENGE!!!!!!

Now that that's out of the way...

I think that the recurring number 3 was just added to troll us. I would love to see a close rerun of triple play though (Never gonna give up the game??) It's my favorite game, so this would be so cool.


As far as speculation into a third alliance goes, 2 vs. 2 vs. 2 would be really interesting, but it's reading a bit too far into this. IF we're going to pay that much attention to the pins, we might as well consider a 4 vs. 2 vs. 2 with some sort of twist on scoring and multipliers as well as heavy cooperation.

From the picture we can speculate the challenge may have some play on music or sounds though. Vocal commands during hybrid?

Screen shot was taken at 3:00, so longer match maybe?

If we go by the "You know the rules and so do I" , I think of Lunacy. It was 4 years ago, so some teams probably still have at least a few members who were there during that year. Would explain the white wheels, and perhaps 'roll' refers to the reappearance of a moving goal. I would like to see this too.

Equally possible is that we're just providing some lunch-break entertainment for the people in the GDC. Can't wait to see what they send out next.

[jawebste]

Good catch. That metal bar resembles the Bishop Wisecarver track for bushing wheels in the FIRST Choice parts selection.