[FRC Blog] 2014 Game Hint

[SteamlyPunk]

Searching Google for the 61126 zip code I got this thing:

And going on youtube looking for 'Rockford 1963' I got to this video.
I don't know about you but imo drones would be a pretty cool concept.

[Neima]

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

The game will be a re-do of Aim High but with footballs and a different end game.

the thing with a football shooting game is there are already really nice football throwing machines and i feel like first likes us creating things that aren't already made for a mass market

[Calvin Hartley]

Dave Lavery just tweeted this:

Originally Posted by @davelavery

Three miles of wear and tear on @MarsCuriosity's wheels, and they are still going strong nasa.gov/jpl/msl/mars-rover-curiosity-pia17551/#.UrTJnKUeq4R …

Three miles! Is this a very subtle hint, about the number 3?

(Sorry Mr. Lavery. You were bound to be roped into this at some point.)

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by SteamlyPunk

I don't know about you but imo drones would be a pretty cool concept.

Leave that to the college kids http://collegiateaerialrobotics.org/

[MooreteP]

I swore to myself that I wouldn't post.

I think there will be three alliances, the third one being green.
Hence the water bottles and a coordinate system clue.

Three or four years ago at the CMP they showed a third color implying a three alliance competition in the future.

I think that suggestion has come true.

If so, the question is how many teams on each alliance?
2v2v2 or 3v3v3.

I think they transitioned us to smaller perimeters last year to prepare us for a crowded field of 9 robots.
Tough in smaller district competitions for match scheduling, so, maybe the matches will be longer this year.

Maybe autonomous will be at the end?

Or in the middle.
Driving in a circle stacking tetras on our opponents.
With well hung Ubertubes and a bridge over a tunnel.
2x Bonus balls on a stairway to heaven.
Each alliance will form a pyramid with one robot climbing on the other two.
Big Coopertition points if all nine robots climb on each other.
And there will be regolith. Covered with corn.
For the endgame each alliance will drive into the pits and knock over their opponents totes and steal their batteries.

I'm still working on the point values.
And each team should start prototyping a TARDIS.

Remember, you heard it here FIRST

Oh yeah, almost forgot.
SuperSoakers to short out your opponents electrical system.


When's the next ChiefDelphi Anonymous meeting?

[Fielding S.]

I saw the reference to "Who" and I saw something someone said about The Who, so I searched it on Google. I clicked on their Wikipedia page, hit Ctrl+F and searched for "1963". The only result was a list of performances from The Who (even though they were not officially "The Who" yet) from 1962-1963.

On Friday, December 20, 1963, The Who performed at Forest Hill, England. What I found interesting--and slightly startling--They performed multiple times there, but in the listing for Friday, December 20, Hill is spelled with three L's.

Just thought it was interesting.

[ykarkason]

Guys!
Here's the shitz:
Here are the points mapped in a Cartesian coordinate system:

Here's the photo from the kickoff filming blog post:


Take a look at the shape of the water bottles on the floor! Odd, euh?

3 bottles, 3 people. 2 green screens, 2 red lights, 2 blue lights = 3 alliances of 2 teams each!

Now what's more?
Woodie and Don Bossi are sitting whilst Dean is standing. Two Bottles are on the floor and one is lifted. Can it mean anything?!

[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by Neima

the thing with a football shooting game is there are already really nice football throwing machines and i feel like first likes us creating things that aren't already made for a mass market

I don't think the challenge would be throwing/shooting the balls, but picking up and storing them without jamming.

[NanoCollins]

Originally Posted by SteamlyPunk

Searching Google for the 61126 zip code I got this thing:

And going on youtube looking for 'Rockford 1963' I got to this video.
I don't know about you but imo drones would be a pretty cool concept.

A flying game would be cool. Nobody ever said our drive system ever had to stay on the ground. (but that could get dangerous... spinning blades of death-type situations are good to avoid)

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by ykarkason

Now what's more?
Woodie and Don Bossi are sitting whilst Dean is standing. Two Bottles are on the floor and one is lifted. Can it mean anything?!

And look, their stools form a triangle too!

It's almost like any non-linear arrays of points we find makes a triangle! That sounds an awful lot like geometry!

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by ykarkason

3 alliances of 2 teams each!

OR OR OR.... 2 alliances of 3 teams each! Man, wouldn't that be crazy?!?

[Neima]

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

I don't think the challenge would be throwing/shooting the balls, but picking up and storing them without jamming.

In that case it could be

[Johnnybukkel]

Originally Posted by Hallry

OR OR OR.... 2 alliances of 3 teams each! Man, wouldn't that be crazy?!?

You seem to be clinically insane good sir...

[RoundTabler]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57_%28number%29
Interesting stuff here.

[Calvin Hartley]

Originally Posted by ykarkason

3 bottles, 3 people. 2 green screens, 2 red lights, 2 blue lights = 3 alliances of 2 teams each!

Now what's more?
Woodie and Don Bossi are sitting whilst Dean is standing. Two Bottles are on the floor and one is lifted. Can it mean anything?!

You sir, have an eye for the details.

Is that an Altoids tin on the ground in front of Woodie? Does anybody know how many Altoids are in a regular size tin? After some quick google searching I came up with many different numbers that appeared to be guesses, the most credible looking was about 70. High quantity game piece maybe? Will we be placing them in bins of some sort?