Will we ever get a hint #2?

[Alan Anderson]

Perhaps the lack of an official second hint is a hint.

[Chexposito]

2005: tetrahedral (open shape) game
2006: nerf ball game
2007: tube game
2008: exercise ball game
2009: open shape sphere game
2010: soccer ball game
2011: tube game

pattern?

Originally Posted by Chexposito

2005: tetrahedral (open shape) game
2006: nerf ball game
2007: tube game
2008: exercise ball game
2009: open shape sphere game
2010: soccer ball game
2011: tube game

pattern?

YES! All of them are GAMES! /sarcasm/

[Ninja_Bait]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

YES! All of them are GAMES! /sarcasm/

True, but you're missing the REAL pattern. This is a cycle that MUST end in 2012: water game!

Originally Posted by Ninja_Bait

True, but you're missing the REAL pattern. This is a cycle that MUST end in 2012: water game!

GENIUS! This is a once-in-a-life-time-completely-awesome-totally-original idea! And yes, that is one word.

[JohnSchneider]

Dont people use exercise balls in water?

[Chexposito]

Originally Posted by Ninja_Bait

True, but you're missing the REAL pattern. This is a cycle that MUST end in 2012: water game!

i openly welcome our large game piece overlords

[FIRSTtm134]

Originally Posted by Ninja_Bait

True, but you're missing the REAL pattern. This is a cycle that MUST end in 2012: water game!

Bill DID say that it was a heavy field..

To answer the original question: Yes, we will get a "hint #2". It may not be for this game, but eventually, we WILL get a "hint #2".

All sarcasm aside, I think that the first hint was a bit early, and though it's shame on FIRST for making this long waiting period between hints, I can assume another one is coming in the days ahead. If memory serves correct (though I don't trust my memory), we got a hint a few days before kickoff in 2011.

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by Chexposito

i openly welcome our large game piece overlords

In FIRST's efforts to make FTC mentoring quasi-mandatory, they will make us play with 16lb bowling balls. you have to bowl the balls on a lane, using the high speed sensors. you have to use minibots to reset the pins

[Chexposito]

Originally Posted by ratdude747

In FIRST's efforts to make FTC mentoring quasi-mandatory, they will make us play with 16lb bowling balls. you have to bowl the balls on a lane, using the high speed sensors. you have to use minibots to reset the pins

i was saying more in volume, but i can imagine the carnage of 16 lb bowling balls being thrown across the field and at mini-bots

Originally Posted by ratdude747

In FIRST's efforts to make FTC mentoring quasi-mandatory, they will make us play with 16lb bowling balls. you have to bowl the balls on a lane, using the high speed sensors. you have to use minibots to reset the pins

I'd like to throw a bowling ball at minibots...

[JaneYoung]

I would so love another game hint!

It feels kind of like a happy puppy waiting for someone to throw that tennis ball. Waiting.. waiting.. waiting... I really hope I don't start drooling, jumping, and barking - that would be embarrassing even for me.


Jane

[Dkt01]

Maybe the next hint will be a lightly-encrypted fake game manual.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Guys, the second game hint was a donated parts list from Banebots. Sadly it, like the gearboxes, has a 2-5 week lead time.