FRC Blogged - 2013 Manual Decryption Test

[johnmaguire2013]

Originally Posted by Tyson

the links are at the bottom right, not the big icon.

right click, save as.

and looks like they just fixed the arena link.

here, just click this link http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default...d_Markings.pdf

Thank you.

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

Is it just me or is it missing some of the regular sections (The Tournament, The Robot) in addition to The Game? I remember last year they released the encrypted manual in 5 parts. Maybe another simplification?

FIRST has used the title "Game" for two separate things for a couple of years now. Take a look at last year's archived documentation.. There is a section titled "The Game", but that section, along with others, is in the "Game Manual" section.

The items FIRST previously released for this year are all part of the Administrative Manual. This lets them easily separate administrative stuff from that stuff that tells us how to build the robot.

[Grim Tuesday]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

FIRST has used the title "Game" for two separate things for a couple of years now. Take a look at last year's archived documentation.. There is a section titled "The Game", but that section, along with others, is in the "Game Manual" section.

The items FIRST previously released for this year are all part of the Administrative Manual. This lets them easily separate administrative stuff from that stuff that tells us how to build the robot.

This is true but last year instead of releasing a consolidated PDF as the encrypted manual, FIRST released each section (ie The Game, The Tournament, The Robot, etc...) separately encrypted. It was annoying and I'm glad they're sending out the consolidated version this year. I only remember this because I still have all of the encrypted files from last year sitting on my hard drive.

[johnmaguire2013]

I remember this too. It was incredibly frustrating.

[KingLinkTiger]

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