[FRC Blog] 2014 Game Hint

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by Christopher149

Hmmm.... There have been some suggestions that the game might be a redo of 2004's (10 years ago) FIRST Frenzy. The game featured a pull-up bar very similar to Block Party's. Also, FVC (FIRST Vex Challenege) debuted with a scaled-down FIRST Frenzy, so will FRC this year be a scaled-up Block Party?? FIRST Frenzy also had steps, which may be what is shown on the one monitor.

There's very little actual support for it, but I love the idea of flipping the relationship between FTC and FRC teams-- they've had games similar to ours, it's our turn to have one similar to theirs.

It also fits with Frank's comment-- a scaled up version of the Block Party pendulum/ramp/bar assembly would be a sight to behold.

[DampRobot]

Originally Posted by Christopher149

You know, if you rotate that image, it looks rather like a shallow staircase.

I'm impressed! That is something!

[Joseph1825]

Here's what I got when I used base10 to binary to Morse to english.

First set of numbers


e rnt
s e

or another way

t kr
o t

second set of numbers

(ststi)(vvi)(vil) u
hkl

another way


e dou
rkm

do what you want with that.

[kcy0511]

After simple research on First Frenzy it is said that it combined elements from different years which supports the recycling theories from earlier.

[Anthony4004]

Originally Posted by RB73

Combining that with what I said MUCH earlier in the thread about the feet in this image: http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default...ff-Filming.jpg

Endgame: 30 points for fully climbing stairs, 15 for being off the ground but not completely up them

30 and 15 were chosen arbitrarily.

I think this is really cool because of that huge robotics competition that is happening this weekend. The Robotic Olympics they were calling it. Now if only we could get a ton of money for winning.....

[peronis]

Originally Posted by RB73

Combining that with what I said MUCH earlier in the thread about the feet in this image: http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default...ff-Filming.jpg

Endgame: 30 points for fully climbing stairs, 15 for being off the ground but not completely up them

30 and 15 were chosen arbitrarily.

I love the feet thing. Stairs seems likely and frightening at the same time. I'm going to be dreaming about a drivetrain that can climb stairs now.

I wish the official game hint would elude to stairs as well to confirm, but maybe it is trying to hint at game pieces, and the picture hinting at the field elements.

[Gigakaiser]

Minibots race up a staircase.

[sanddrag]

I have absolutely no credible lead on this, but in the extremely slim chance that I hit the mark here, I'm going to go ahead and guess the game piece will be manufactured by One World Futbol. Hopefully I don't get a knock on my door tomorrow.

Can anyone connect anything to this place?

[TheCrayButton]

So far I have heard Hockey and Baseball. Go to this link and vote on which one you think it is. http://www.yopyip.com/#!poll/cmb9

[Kathysmith]

"Who's on FIRST" is too good of a game name to pass up. I feel certain that if they don't use it this year, they will in the near future.

[Anthony4004]

Originally Posted by Kathysmith

"Who's on FIRST" is too good of a game name to pass up. I feel certain that if they don't use it this year, they will in the near future.

Im pretty sure that is trademarked. So they would have to come up with something else.

[OzzyArmas]

So guys.... I was doing some research on the Andy Mark Drive Kit. The kit from this year is smaller and weighs two pounds less than last years.

[Flimsor]

If you'll all still remember that picture from a while back in the thread of Dean, Woodie, and the other man who's name slips my thought, I think that the connection it made to the hint was much too good to be a coincidence. First of all, the clue was not numbered,as they have been in the past, meaning there easily could be another clue that would have been made too obvious had they numbered this one 2, or any other number for that matter. I don't know why they would say that there's no clue in the picture if it's just supposed to be an unrelated image, unless they wanted to attract a little bit of attention to it (though I would like to know how someone got all of those details. Then someone found it matched the triangle given by the clue very closely if rotated and flipped. Quite possibly, when they said that there's no clue in THIS picture, they meant the original, meaning there could easily be one when rotated. When rotated, it matches up just right with the number three, and the triangle. I feel that the three is easily just more evidence that it should be that way, because there's have tended to come up quite a lot from FIRST GDC, and it could easily just be some confirmation. Now, given that long winded explanation, I think their feet do mean something as someone mentioned. The number of feed go up in ascending order as the chairs go up in the picture. This could easily mean a scoring element where points are awarded for either climbing higher, or putting something higher. We haven't had an arm game in quite some time, so I'm leaning slightly towards game pieces going up, however the weight limit sign someone found was just way too suspicious, so it just as may well be robots since it is easier to climb with a lighter robot. The clue when put into google maps is just too darn relevant, so I'm thinking it's a combination of the two. I don't think there's too much within the clues left, but I could be wrong (and I certainly wouldn't mind it if it gave us more info).

[CASN8R]

Originally Posted by Whippet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockford,_Illinois

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchester,_Illinois

8234/57 gave coordinates to a farm in Idaho.

61126/1963

Rockford, IL in a 1963

Supposivley in:
July 8, 1963 ----- Winnebago County farm officials decide to seek federal disaster aid because of severe drought conditions. Rain finally falls on July 13, and more is predicted.

July 29, 1963 ----- Winnebago County, one of five Northern Illinois counties declared disaster areas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, after the worst drought in nearly 30 years.

62326/15806

62326 is a zip for Colchester, IL. So comparing the distribution of the residents' age, the number of 15 yr olds is 26, 80 yr olds is 12, and 6 yr olds is 30.
If you Google 261230, it pulls up many different brands of air pressure sensors.

So not really sure what all that means... But I gathered farms, droughts, and air pressure sensors.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by OzzyArmas

So guys.... I was doing some research on the Andy Mark Drive Kit. The kit from this year is smaller and weighs two pounds less than last years.

Yes, Andy already stated that the new kit is lighter than the previous version.