FRC Hint video

[EricH]

Originally Posted by CalTran

Usually a picture of some sort. 2010 it was pieces of the field, drafted and isolated. 2011 it was some lady hugging a column (I think that hint signified locomotion?) and idr any hints for this year (2012) besides the kinect

Back in my day, we didn't get any of these pictures, and certainly not more than one in the same year. You young whippersnappers have everything handed to you! We figured the answers, going uphill both ways, with slide rules and 4-function calculators....


In all seriousness, you're missing multiple hints. In 2011, the first hint was the cover of the album that Locomotion was on and the second hint was the FIRST logo. In 2012, the Rockwell donation list made a pretty puzzling hint...

Now, back to some of the classics:
2003: y=ax^2+bx+c, a reference to the scoring system
2004: Some lines from Stairway to Heaven, by Led Zeppelin, referring to the stairs and the bar on the field.
2005: a riddle, involving Pi, amethyst, two players to make unassisted triple plays, and other references to 3, pointing to the game name, Triple Play
2006: "Five 'bots tangling with pasta, A game piece obsessed with a shovel's show, And seeing Montana's green heights." In shape, that was a roundish riddle; in hindsight, it covered what you'd do with the game piece, the offense/defense periods, and the CMUCam vision targets.
2007: Image from the game animation, showing a scored game piece on the #5 column, top peg.
2008: The doozy of doozies. Hint season opened with every team getting hint #1, an IR receiver that would work with a standard remote, in the mail. Hint #2, a couple weeks later, was GPS coordinates leading to a statue of the tortoise and the hare in Boston. Hint #3, "Vets hurdling FIRST tetras", was most of the password to the encrypted manual--scrambled, of course, and without punctuation.
2009: First the opah. Then, a riddle that lead from the Zamboni plant to the maker of the game piece to a couple other places.
2010: As noted, pictures of field pieces/areas.
2011: See above.
2012: See above.

You know you've been in FIRST way too long when you can remember all those hints... even down to exact wording... and only have to look up the most recent.