[BB] The wooden beams have started creaking

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by 1075guy

Look at Bill's choice of words.

4x 1000lb pallets of game specific steel elements
3x 1500lb pallets of a game specific item + 1x 1000lb pallet of a different game specific item.
<multiple> pallets of game pieces

That means these heavy pallets are not the game PIECES, and there's some distinction between steel elements, and 'item'-s of which there are at least 2 unique things.

Based on the numbers, the 1500lb pallets could be a team specific item, and the 1000lb pallet could be an alliance specific item, assuming the same itemcount per pallet, which I'm fully aware is a totally unfair assumption.

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I'm not sure what to make of the term 'item'. We've had FIELD ELEMENTS, and GAME PIECES before, but 'item' seems to imply that its not part of the FIELD, but also not a GAME PIECE, and its not a KOP part, because those are being assembled in a separate facility.

I know you discounted it being for the KoP, and I can't argue with your logic... but there are a couple of facts that could argue that the items are part of the KoP:

• There are somewhere around 1600 FRC teams registered for a single event - or at least, there were a month ago. The number may have gone up, who knows. (http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2011...-my-inbox.html)
• A Kinect (which we know we're getting in the KoP) weighs about 3 lbs. I couldn't find stats for it by itself, but bundled with a game Amazon pegs it at 3.1 lbs (http://www.amazon.com/Kinect-Sensor-.../dp/B002BSA298)
• If you do the volume measurements based on the dimensions Amazon provides, 1600 Kinects could fit into 3 crates, if those crates are 4x4x8 (or maybe a bit wider and shorter). That sounds reasonable to me.

Of course, given how the paragraph is worded, it sounds like the "items" are something that stays with the field. But the coincidence here is hard to ignore!