[BB] The wooden beams have started creaking

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by BB

Speaking of Manual sections, Section 4.2.2 covers robot carts. Please be sure to clearly label your robot cart with your team number. There is no defined way to do this, we just want to make sure field personnel can identify what cart belongs to which team so we can keep things flowing smoothly on the field.

All this discussion of pallets and weight, and this important item isn't even noted (except in Taylor's introduction).

Koko Ed, lead the rejoicing!

[JohnSchneider]

Gaffers Tape = Lanes = g33s for everybody!

[Siri]

Originally Posted by Hallry

Does that mean that the amount of the first game item is going to weigh more than the steel elements? 0.o

Suspect the steel elements are less likely to break than the game-specific items. Hopefully, they're giving each field plenty of replacements if they're poppable inflatable or crushable.

Yay for robot carts!

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by stevend1994

But arguably, if we determined total volume, we'd still need to be wary, because let's say the game pieces are something like Tetras, and come in pieces.

I say we just organize a top-secret raid into FIRST HQ one night.

I wonder how much we could glean from their trash? hmmmm

Ben and Jerry's cups, KK boxes, a large cRIO, a box of tetrix motors, and assorted popped play balls. Yep all junk.

[gyroscopeRaptor]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

I wonder how much we could glean from their trash? hmmmm

Ben and Jerry's cups, KK boxes, a large cRIO, a box of tetrix motors, and assorted popped play balls. Yep all junk.

You forgot the Haagen-Dazs.

Is the name of the blogpost a hint in itself?

[Tetraman]

...two full pallets of gaffers tape...

*cry*

I was trying to do some math on this, knowing what I do know about the tape, but I can't really be so sure about so many variables that trying to determine how many tapes there are to spread across each event and off season event hurt my brain.

[rachelholladay]

The carpet tape is also used to repair holes that robots inflict upon the carpet. By the end of Archimedes in 2010 almost a fourth of the floor had tape on it because robots are surprisingly good at tearing through it.

I am going to go ahead and say I don't think its a water game. We are Beta Testing the Kinect and somehow I don't think you could do those gestures very well while submerged in water..

[Siri]

Originally Posted by rachelholladay

I am going to go ahead and say I don't think its a water game. We are Beta Testing the Kinect and somehow I don't think you could do those gestures very well while submerged in water..

That's it! The humans are in the water, the robots are on the field. Solves all (well...) the electronics problems. Start recruiting on your swim team, folks!

Perfect timing! 256 was going to make a new cart this year anyways, so we now might as well beef it up with our team name, number, etc, and make it so that the robot doesn't fall off every time we turn!

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by gyroscopeRaptor

You forgot the Haagen-Dazs.

Is the name of the blogpost a hint in itself?

Doubt they are ever hints. They are so abstract that even if you get some things you'll never have an idea of what to build or what the objects are. They can see how much we run with one little word they put in a sentence and I bet they have a ton of laughs seeing us yell water game any time they make a reference to a storm.

[Alex.q]

Although there have been quite a few references to water games lately. Could be that they are just manipulating us, but someone brought up elsewhere this is the 100 year anniversary of the Titanic, so that could possibly explain water references. Additionally, "the wooden beams have started creaking" could references a sinking ship. Also, the Titanic was a disaster, which kind of relates this to a "2012 end of the world theme." Not saying that we can figure anything out about the game from this, just suggesting ideas.

Also, since they know we always guess water game, it would be ironic to use a clue that actually did describe a water game because nobody would take it seriously. Of course there could be multiple levels of reverse psychology here, so I will stop speculating now.

Originally Posted by Alex.q

Although there have been quite a few references to water games lately. Could be that they are just manipulating us, but someone brought up elsewhere this is the 100 year anniversary of the Titanic, so that could possibly explain water references. Additionally, "the wooden beams have started creaking" could references a sinking ship. Also, the Titanic was a disaster, which kind of relates this to a "2012 end of the world theme." Not saying that we can figure anything out about the game from this, just suggesting ideas.

Also, since they know we always guess water game, it would be ironic to use a clue that actually did describe a water game because nobody would take it seriously. Of course there could be multiple levels of reverse psychology here, so I will stop speculating now.

While I doubt this year really will be a "water game", your speculation on the Titanic seems very accurate, so I wouldn't be surprised if that was the actual game! Now.... What could that mean for an FRC game???

[Cory]

Originally Posted by rachelholladay

The carpet tape is also used to repair holes that robots inflict upon the carpet. By the end of Archimedes in 2010 almost a fourth of the floor had tape on it because robots are surprisingly good at tearing through it.

Not that it particularly matters, but that's not quite accurate.

Carpet tape is solely used for attaching two pieces of carpet together. It contains an unmelted glue which is melted by a heated iron and then the two seams are pressed down on top of it.

Gaffers tape (which you are referring to) is used to patch holes in the carpet, lay down lines on the field, etc.

[~Cory~]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

Doubt they are ever hints. They are so abstract that even if you get some things you'll never have an idea of what to build or what the objects are. They can see how much we run with one little word they put in a sentence and I bet they have a ton of laughs seeing us yell water game any time they make a reference to a storm.

We had loComotion by Little Eva down pretty well last year...

[Marc S.]

I think its funny that so many people are actually taking the water theme literally. It's entirely possible that it could be a water game and yet have not a drop of water on the field.

2009 was a moon based game where robots drove over "Regolith", a very flat and slippery material(although actual Regolith is made up of loose dust, soil, and rock) on a field called "The Crater".

Maybe next years game uses "Water", a dry slippery material(similar to "Regolith"), on a field called "The Ocean".
While I'm at it, the game piece could be a sinking ship(Titanic's 100th Year anniversary), or several classic video game items(Atari's 40th and Nentindo's 20th anniversary). That's my first guess for the next season.