Game Hint Hint

[pfreivald]

12/21 --> anagram of 2112.

No Cotton Eyed Joe, no Gagnam Style, no Call me Maybe, no Party in the USA.

All Rush, all the time.

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[dellagd]

Dang! I was really looking forward to finding out what the hint would be. Guess we'll never find out

[Jay O'Donnell]

But then we won't be able to spend way too much time going over silly hints!

[pandamonium]

The important part of this post is that they are mindful of these forums and that is a good sign.

[Jessica Boucher]

I already got my game hint in the mail. It's cool.

[JB987]

May be worth checking out some of the Mayan games (hopefully excluding loser consequences in some of the games)...just a couple of their games:

http://library.thinkquest.org/5891/games.htm

[Don Knight]

12 21 12 reverse images of preceding number - mirrors there will be mirrors and 45 game pieces or would it be 54???

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by JB987

May be worth checking out some of the Mayan games ...

Based on some quick research, I recommend teams start designing manipulators to handle an eight inch diameter solid rubber ball weighing about three to four kilograms. Dropping the ball can have serious consequences ...

[coalhot]

I have a feeling that the Mayan aspect will have absolutely nothing to do with this years game.

[|DELTA|]

That would be very interesting. But I think that something like this is a bit to obvious. Anyone can look up Aztec culture and derive games playable by robots from it. Besides, we just had a ball game. I feel that the game is going to be some sort of stacking or arranging type of deal. Just a vibe, but....

[Austin2046]

Hmm, combining "never gonna give you up" with the end of the world i get that this years game will be... a robot version of keep away or kill the carrier...

game pieces in the center of the arena and alliances try to maintain control of them until the end of the match... because they're never gonna give them up, until the end of the world...

this does seem like a rather simple game though, and maybe not too spectator friendly.

[dag0620]

As to my thoughts on what this means, I'll keep to myself.

But I gotta say as the years go on, I enjoy the trolling by FIRST Staff, and it's been so good this year! A hint about a hint, I mean come on how could you get better than that?

Keep up the good work HQ, and keep our heads spinning in the crazy illogical fashion like always!

[dodar]

What the hint really means is that at the end of every match, a giant solar flare will destroy the field.

[Peyton Yeung]

What about field pieces that start together but drift apart? (Similar to the would falling apart)

Return of the hexagonal trailers/goals?

Peyton

[wasayanwer97]

Perhaps a normal period of play, and then some randomized, crazy event during the end game?