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Did anyone figure out the rick astley hint from last year my guess was rick rolld flick rolld its frisbee but i am wondering was that actually the hint?
No FIRST was just trolling us.
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"No one ever really understood any of Dave's hints."??? How can you say that??!?!! I understood every single one of them!!! (and so did Bill Murray!)


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I can't believe I missed this. Murray stared in the movie Osmosis Jones http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181739/ = Water Game! sorry had to .
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Re: When will the first official game hint be released?

I don't know if anyone remembered the survey FIRST sent out from last year, but they asked a question about procuring game pieces on it (which wasn't really a hint). I would think the GDC would do something along the lines of ultimate ascent, by having easy to procure game pieces.
In looking at past games, it seems like the GDC really likes sports (1992 - tennis balls, 2008 - yoga type balls, 1994 & 2010 - Soccer Balls, 2012 - Basketball, 2013 - Ultimate Frisbee). I LOVE how they work with sports themes, so we can relate our work with robots to games & game pieces that many people are familiar with.
The GDC gave us a somewhat difficult challenge by making us work with frisbees last year, so maybe this year is another odd game such as a football game, golf game (ouch) with WATER features , or maybe even a NASCAR/Indy Car type #racingrobots game?

But really...
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The GDC gave us a somewhat difficult challenge by making us work with frisbees last year, so maybe this year is another odd game such as a football game, golf game (ouch) with WATER features , or maybe even a NASCAR/[url="http://www.usfirst.org/aboutus/frc-teams-join-indycar-racers-charlie-kimball-and-josef-newgarden-for-the-ultimate-roborivalry-trackside"]Indy Car type #racingrobots]
In one of the Behind the design videos, they talked about how one member of the GDC suggests a football game piece every year.
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In one of the Behind the design videos, they talked about how one member of the GDC suggests a football game piece every year.
Unlike a water, game, I'd bet it will actually come up one of these years. And I'm thinking that next year could be that year.
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Unlike a water, game, I'd bet it will actually come up one of these years. And I'm thinking that next year could be that year.
I wonder how we can make that out of COTS parts and build it as quickly as possible...
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Re: When will the first official game hint be released?

What if the hint is already released but RP-1 style? Like, all you have to do is print out the FRC Blog page, look for occurrences of typographical errors, those will spell out the location to the secret... oh nevermind, way too complicated ;-)
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Re: When will the first official game hint be released?

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What if the hint is already released but RP-1 style? Like, all you have to do is print out the FRC Blog page, look for occurrences of typographical errors, those will spell out the location to the secret... oh nevermind, way too complicated ;-)
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What if the hint is already released but RP-1 style? Like, all you have to do is print out the FRC Blog page, look for occurrences of typographical errors, those will spell out the location to the secret... oh nevermind, way too complicated ;-)
It just hit me upside the head what you meant with "RP-1". You mean Ready Player One, right? That was a fantastic book.

On to the speculation: maybe the errors of threes and fours, coupled with dates, produce something like Morse code.<evil laugh>
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Did anyone figure out the rick astley hint from last year my guess was rick rolld flick rolld its frisbee but i am wondering was that actually the hint?
From my understanding that was never technically an official "Game hint" all that was labeled with that picture was "A look inside the GDC lab" I think we all just got a little excited and speculated it like crazy
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From my understanding that was never technically an official "Game hint" all that was labeled with that picture was "A look inside the GDC lab" I think we all just got a little excited and speculated it like crazy
So your saying i guessed the game based off a troll?
Also by the pictures they keeping posting up on facebook and twitter with throw back Thursday it seems they keep showing ones involving kick balls? coincidence
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I think that Ryan Hall did some research last year that showed the average date of release for game hints was December 21st.
Taken from this thread from last year (and updated info for 2013):

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Did some investigating myself:
2013 (Kickoff Date: 1/5/13) = 1st Game Hint (12/21/12)
2012 (Kickoff Date: 1/7/12) = 1st Game Hint (12/02/11)
2011 (Kickoff Date: 1/8/11) = 1st Game Hint (12/21/10), 2nd Game Hint (1/4/11)
2010 (Kickoff Date: 1/9/10) = 1st Game Hint (12/24/09), 2nd Game Hint (1/6/10)
2009 (Kickoff Date: 1/10/09 ) = 1st Game Hint (12/4/08), 2nd Game Hint (12/11/08),
2008 (Kickoff Date: 1/12/08) = 1st Game Hint (12/15/07), 2nd Game Hint (12/21/07), 3rd Game Hint (1/02/08)
2007 (Kickoff Date: 1/13/07) = 1st Game Hint (12/21/06)
2006 (Kickoff Date: 1/7/06) = 1st Game Hint (12/23/05)
2005 (Kickoff Date: 1/8/05) = 1st Game Hint (12/30/04)
2004 (Kickoff Date: 1/10/04) = 1st Game Hint (1/6/04)
Based on this data:
1. On average, a 1st game hint would be released 21 days before Kickoff, which would be December 14th, 2013.
2. On average, a 2nd game hint would be released 15 days before Kickoff, which would be December 20th, 2013.
3. On average, a 3rd game hint would be released 10 days before Kickoff, which would be December 25th, 2013.
4. The most common day for the first hint to be released is also December 21st.
5. The most common day for any hint to be released is also December 21st.
6. The second most common day for any hint to be released is January 6th.
7. 2012 was the first time after 4 years of more than one hint being released.
I actually totally forgot that I even did this research last year...thanks for reminding me!

And I'll add on:
8. The only year that there were 3 game hints was 2008.
9. Out of the past 10 years, there was only more than one game hint for 4 of them (interestingly, these were 4 consecutive years).

My guess for this year's game hint (yes, I think there'll only be one): Friday, December 20th (since December 21st is a Saturday).
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