2013 Game Hint!

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Originally Posted by daniel_dsouza

Great question! I'd like to say no.

In 2011, our hint was another picture "music/song/artist/singer" related. She sang the song "Locomotion". The name of the game that year was "Logomotion". Did anyone connect "Locomotion" to scoring inner tubes on pegs to form the FIRST logo with a minibot endgame? I think not.

This year might just be the same thing: a hint to the name of the game, which really can not tell us anything. Especially because (according to CD patterns), this year's game will not be sport oriented (Rebound Rumble sort of implied basketball).

I don't know about the minibot pole, but I do know several people that got Logomotion-->making FIRST logos-->inner tube game.

People in 2010 figured out that Hint #2 was an extra gate, and therefore there would be a field split into 3rd by a barrier we weren't supposed to carry robots over. Some even deciphered Hint #1 as a ball track and connected it with soccer (because it was a World Cup year and/or they determined the scale).

I don't remember much useful coming out of 2009, but 2008 was the IR year. It was also the GPS coordinate year, and there were people that found the tortoise and the hare statue and determined it was a race (presumably NASCAR-style given field size limitations).

...Now, if you're asking whether anything useful was done as a result of a game hint, that's less clear (barring the IR sensor). If any teams trusted their conclusions enough, they certainly could've gotten a head start on everything from barrier traversers and NASCAR drivetrains to soccer ball possessors and inner tube grippers, among others. Whether anyone did is another story. It's a bit of a leap of faith.

EDIT: and what efoote said.