2013 ACTUAL game hint!!!

[nathan_hui]

As far as I'm aware of, there isn't a smaller kinect. And the normal container for the kinect is not 4 x 1 x 1.

Originally Posted by MechEng83

Unless it's bigger on the inside....

In which case we all better be ready for a really, really good game (It shall be called: Wibbly Wobbly Gamey Wamey stuff.)

[ahartnet]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

Do they make those?

No, I'm pretty sure they don't. Also, I thought the kinect was something like a foot long, but only an inch deep/wide. Looking up the dimensions show it's actually 11"x3"x3" leaving me to believe that it's not a reduced set of kinect features.

I just wanted to do some pure speculations.

Also, I think with the lyrics "never gonna let you down" and the "holding weight" portion of the puzzle...we'll need some strong robots.

[Nick Lawrence]

Originally Posted by ahartnet

2) 4" x 1" x 1" sounds like it could be a smaller kinect?

I normally don't post in these, but I seem to remember that this box was the RSL last year.

-Nick

[ENIAC]

What I see possibly happening is Kinect data being processed onboard the robot by a RasPi, if our suppositions turn out to be correct.

[EricPalmatier]

Interesting. Perhaps the RSL this year is a 4 color 1" diameter light pole. its square cross section would be 4X1X1. the top light could be Orange, with the bottom three lights indicating alliance color and other important game specific information. Allen-Bradley does have lights on the market like this. Similar lights can be seen on those automated check out systems common in grocery stores. just an idea.

[Johnny_5]

Maybe the game is oriented around the seal idea. Since the Navy is involved in FRC this year, and the lyrics reference a seal and "a dinner missed" (holding weight). And Rick Astley sings "Never gonna let you down".... maybe this is a helicopter game?


Just some speculation....

[JB987]

Anybody ever see footage of the team related task the Seals struggle with while undergoing hellish training on the beach? Teams of 8 or so have to pick up big, heavy log and carry/hold it for a real long time...makes you wonder, huh?

[Gir_450]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here but I think we'll all figure out what this hint means sometime soon. xD

[inkspell4]

Why are you all saying that the navy is involved?

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by apalrd

Nope.

Stack Attack very very very quickly devolved into a game of destroying the opposing alliances stacks and becoming king of the hill, at all costs. Wedges were legal as long as you didn't actively lift them. Flipping was common. Destruction was great. It's kinda like battlebots from the point of view of the boxes, and a giant mess from the point of view of everyone else.

A match video of Stack Attack, courtesy of Andy Baker. 111 will win the championship by sitting on the ramp for the entire match.

FUN FACTS ABOUT STACK ATTACK:

2003 was 1114's rookie year.
1114 was one of the only teams that actually built a working stackerbot. I can't help but wonder if this experience of missing the game analysis helped drive them to become the powerhouse they are today.
StangPS was WAY ahead of its time. Most teams still today lack a system as powerful as StangPS was, back when we had the BASICStamp 2sx's which only gave 26 bytes of user variable memory IIRC.

[DanielDTech]

Originally Posted by inkspell4

Why are you all saying that the navy is involved?

Go on page 40

[Kevin Thorp]

Originally Posted by JB987

Anybody ever see footage of the team related task the Seals struggle with while undergoing hellish training on the beach? Teams of 8 or so have to pick up big, heavy log and carry/hold it for a real long time...makes you wonder, huh?

Wow... That would be a new twist. Two (or more) robots having to work together to carry long heavy game element.

[malanis]

so, a teammate of mine, who for 2 years now have guessed the correct game piece (tubes, and balls[though he wasnt thinking basket]) seems to think it will be tetras, not from any hints, just from a hunch i guess. and there seems to be talk about them coming back in this thread. also, a tetra is a fish. water game.

[IisMathwizard]

I wonder if the Game lab issues the game hint each year so we can come up with some weird and wacky new game ideas for them to tone down for next year's game.... huh... i wonder...