Will we ever get a hint #2?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by RoboMaster

No way, I'm still hopeful! They must give us more than one hint! We will demand it! We will riot and picket! We will boycott (ok maybe not)!

Has there ever been only one hint? I seem to remember not...

Back in My Day...

We didn't get ANY hints, and we LIKED IT! (1992-2002)
We only got ONE hint, and we LIKED IT! (2003-2007)
We got THREE hints, and we ALMOST SOLVED THEM! (2008)
We got TWO hints, and we LIKED IT! (2009-2011)
We got ONE hint, and we WANT MORE! (2012)

You kiddies don't know how good you have it! Back in my day, all we got for hints were equations, song lyrics, and unintelligible riddles about John Neun, purple, pasta, 5 'bots, and similar matters, if we were lucky! Then we got a picture! And then some wise guy decided that multiple hints were better than one hint, so they started giving us too many!

[GiannaLeigh3]

Another flash update earlier..... I got so excited and then crushed in an instance. This suspense is killing me >.<

[Djinn74]

Watch them release the final game hint one hour before kick off.

Then Chief Delphi will be flooded by people waiting for the broadcast while surfing the internet on their smartphones.

People will be too busy discussing the second hint to listen to the broadcast, and we will have to rely on the manual.

IT WILL BE LIKE THE APOCALYPSE (Or maybe not).

[Grim Tuesday]

I still predict a hint release today.

Flash update IV. Either that or Bill goes all the way to Flash XI, and then he says 'fully updated' and we get a hint.

[Sean Raia]

I see what you did there

[FIRSTtm134]

I think the next hint is "flash" meaning fast meaning something to do with those high speed counters

[Sean Raia]

That seems very logical. Now what is a clever game name they could come up with regarding speed?

[Ninja_Bait]

...Overdrive...

[FIRSTtm134]

Rapid Fire

[davidthefat]

Laser tag?

[Sean Raia]

Flash Flood? (oh god no)
Flash Focus?
Hot Flash?

Edit: all the recent games have been clever wordplays on one word. There goes my ideas
Edit2: BoulderDASH anyone? Actually, this fits in with Daves "ROCK the boat" red herring, and Bills PEAK behind the curtain (sort of) I know im really grasping at straws but hey, its entertaining.

[om23]

Since we know that there will be a lot of lights in this year's game, that "FLASH" might be what its codenamed/called, all the teams are being provided with Kinects, and that for some reason Bill (FRC director) posted Flash I, II, & III.... what does all this mean?
A game where there are flashing lights and the object is to control your robot to somehow interact w/ the lights?
Use the Kinect as part of the game (extra points)?
Do 1, 2, 3 have anything to do w/ the game or is it just to mess w/ people and are there more "Flash Update #" to come?
Just WATCH, they're probably just messing with our heads...
what do you think?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by FIRSTtm134

Rapid Fire

I think you might have something there. High-speed counters from Hint #1, by my count, are enough for 4-6 goals/field with spares in case something takes a direct hit from something fired rapidly.

The lots of lights from Hint #1 are the RSLs and stack lights for the two new fields.

[om23]

Originally Posted by EricH

I think you might have something there. High-speed counters from Hint #1, by my count, are enough for 4-6 goals/field with spares in case something takes a direct hit from something fired rapidly.

The lots of lights from Hint #1 are the RSLs and stack lights for the two new fields.

You and FIRSTtm134 bring up a really good point with "rapid fire." thats probably a lot more realistic and it goes along with previous games. but im feeling that the game might be a little more complicated this year due to the addition of the kinect.

The problem with hint #1 was that the list was basically the same as last years. one of my mentors told me that the only difference was that there was an addition of lights or something along the lines.

[Guppy294]

This may sound ridiculous and I may be reading too much into it because it says on or after, but on the FIRST WPI Think Tank webpage, it states

Kinect for FIRST Robotics...
...Presented by Alfred Thompson, Microsoft, at the 2012 FRC Kickoff Workshops. Video and/or slides from the presentation will be available on or after 6-Jan-2012.

Perhaps they will release a game hint the day before kickoff? OR they will throw someone out from the GDC into CD to be fed to the starving hint-hunters of FRC!