[FRC Blog] 2014 Game Hint

[StAxis]

Originally Posted by RoundTabler

When graphed in wolfram alpha it does form a circle...

More precisely a sphere.

[mhos1997]

Picture?

[raptaconehs]

Originally Posted by RoundTabler

When graphed in wolfram alpha it does form a circle...

Well I think that gives us a decent indication that it could be similar to Logomotion atleast with game pieces.

[mechanical_robot]

If you type in "61126/1963" into Google Maps it should show a map of course. Anyways many people are pointing out the obvious post office well what about the water tower that is near it? There is a water tower.

Water game anyone?

Maybe we have to climb a water tower this year hahahahah

[valeriemoore]

Logomotion didn't have any spherical game pieces though. FIRST has been following a pattern for a while now where they go back and forth from a ball like object to an irregular object.

2013: Ultimate Ascent - Frisbee: Irregular
2012: Rebound Rumble - Basketball: Ball
2011: Logomotion - Tubes- Irregular
2010: Breakaway - Soccer Ball: Ball
2009: Lunacy - The open air cells: Irregular
2008: FIRST Overdrive: Trackballs: Ball
2007: Rack 'n Roll: Tubes: Irregular
2006: Aim High: Balls: Ball
2005: Triple Play: Triangles: Irregular

It would make sense for the game piece to be a ball this year. I think that the graphing is brilliant, and that part of the clue is that it is a spherical game piece, but that each fraction is also a game hint.

Originally Posted by raptaconehs

Well I think that gives us a decent indication that it could be similar to Logomotion atleast with game pieces.

[Orion.DeYoe]

Originally Posted by valeriemoore

Logomotion didn't have any spherical game pieces though. FIRST has been following a pattern for a while now where they go back and forth from a ball like object to an irregular object.

2013: Ultimate Ascent - Frisbee: Irregular
2012: Rebound Rumble - Basketball: Ball
2011: Logomotion - Tubes- Irregular
2010: Breakaway - Soccer Ball: Ball
2009: Lunacy - The open air cells: Irregular
2008: FIRST Overdrive: Trackballs: Ball
2007: Rack 'n Roll: Tubes: Irregular
2006: Aim High: Balls: Ball
2005: Triple Play: Triangles: Irregular

It would make sense for the game piece to be a ball this year. I think that the graphing is brilliant, and that part of the clue is that it is a spherical game piece, but that each fraction is also a game hint.

What if the numbers somehow relate to the different possible patterns for games (ball/no-ball, sport/no-sport, etc.)?

[Willem Bohrer]

When you put the three destinations stated thus far into google maps you form a triangle.

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by valeriemoore

Logomotion didn't have any spherical game pieces though. FIRST has been following a pattern for a while now where they go back and forth from a ball like object to an irregular object.

2013: Ultimate Ascent - Frisbee: Irregular
2012: Rebound Rumble - Basketball: Ball
2011: Logomotion - Tubes- Irregular
2010: Breakaway - Soccer Ball: Ball
2009: Lunacy - The open air cells: Irregular
2008: FIRST Overdrive: Trackballs: Ball
2007: Rack 'n Roll: Tubes: Irregular
2006: Aim High: Balls: Ball
2005: Triple Play: Triangles: Irregular

It would make sense for the game piece to be a ball this year. I think that the graphing is brilliant, and that part of the clue is that it is a spherical game piece, but that each fraction is also a game hint.

I would be very careful making up 'patterns.' Many thought that there was also a 'sports game pattern' too:

2006: Aim High - Mesoamerican ballgame
2007: Rack 'n Roll - Abstract
2008: FIRST Overdrive - NASCAR
2009: Lunacy - Abstract
2010: Breakaway - Soccer
2011: Logomotion - Abstract
2012: Rebound Rumble - Basketball

So 2013 was expected to be an abstract, non-sports game, but then they threw Ultimate Frisbee at us. Boom, pattern broken.

Also, I would call 2009 ball, not irregular in your 'pattern.' The game pieces were called 'Orbit Balls' after all!

[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by valeriemoore

Logomotion didn't have any spherical game pieces though. FIRST has been following a pattern for a while now where they go back and forth from a ball like object to an irregular object.

2013: Ultimate Ascent - Frisbee: Irregular
2012: Rebound Rumble - Basketball: Ball
2011: Logomotion - Tubes- Irregular
2010: Breakaway - Soccer Ball: Ball
2009: Lunacy - The open air cells: Irregular
2008: FIRST Overdrive: Trackballs: Ball
2007: Rack 'n Roll: Tubes: Irregular
2006: Aim High: Balls: Ball
2005: Triple Play: Triangles: Irregular

It would make sense for the game piece to be a ball this year. I think that the graphing is brilliant, and that part of the clue is that it is a spherical game piece, but that each fraction is also a game hint.

That pattern goes back farther than that. The ones I know for sure are that 2002 and 2004 had balls and 2003 did not, but I've read that the pattern extends into the 1990's.

[brandon.cottrell]

Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell

That pattern goes back farther than that. The ones I know for sure are that 2002 and 2004 had balls and 2003 did not, but I've read that the pattern extends into the 1990's.

2004 - FIRST Frenzy - Ball
2003 - Stack Attack - Box
2002 - Zone Zeal - Ball
2001 - Diabolical Dynamics - Ball

Sorry.

[DampRobot]

Originally Posted by Willem Bohrer

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When you put the three destinations stated thus far into google maps you form a triangle.

Just saying, any three noncolinear points will form a triangle...

[Abhishek R]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

Just saying, any three noncolinear points will form a triangle...

Yeah, I was just about to say that. Still, important to note the number 3.

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by Abhishek R

Yeah, I was just about to say that. Still, important to note the number 3.

The number 3 is as useless as triangles are. I can also make 4's or 2's or 1's out of anything they throw at us.

[Sean Raia]

Originally Posted by seg9585

Regardless that stat helps no one but the person who guessed it.

Consider for a minute the solutions to last year's clues -- who could without a doubt describe the game as it was, after the game was released, based on the clues provided and solved beforehand?? That whole "A ROSE KISSED..." poem, what did this have anything with pyramids and frisbees over general speculation or vague correlations?

Dinner missed = plate/frisbee.
Holding weight= climbing the pyramid.

If youre here to discuss the relevance of game hints, youre in the wrong thread. If youre here to relate your favorite show or sport to the next frc game, youre in the wrong thread. The water game talk is common, but its been ridiculously overdone this year. Then again, I have no say over how you interpret the hint. Just keep it productive. Work off of others. This is how we get closer to answering these things.

Also I want to point out that in 2011 we were shown a picture of a LOCOMOTIVE well before the first game hint came out. Keep an eye on prior blog posts.

[Kabir Manghnani]

I added the numbers and found their geo-coordinates im getting Forest City, PA. gonna keep working on this..