[FRC Blog] 2014 Game Hint

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by coollint

Why would they say there are no game clues in one specific photo?

Because they knew people would over analyze it since it has to do with Kickoff.

[Kevin Thorp]

Originally Posted by obaranow2015

I think I may have figured it out, the challenge has to do with wind.
so yah thats what I think

Like Dean Kamen, Sir James Dyson is an inventor (cyclone vacuum cleaners & bladeless fans), entrepreneur & philanthropist. Maybe Dean did some of his legendary persuading & got James to donate "Air Multiplier" fans to the Kit of Parts? Check out this fun video.

[mechanical_robot]

Originally Posted by Jets10123

The zip codes are Rockford IL, Zossen Germany, and Colchester IL where there was a place in England where it was named after. All three have had a civil war to be related to it and in 1963 that was the year MLK have his I give a dream speech about anti slavery. Also if you put 8234 on the map three cities come up. One in Lexumburg, Austria, and Switzerland which were all neutral countries in WWII as well as Zossens colors being blue white and green. And green has been a popular topic on chief Delphi. Therefore I believe in a war based game. Also as some one pointed out before 42 was Jackie Robinsons number, as he broke the color barrier for baseball, which is another hint at a war game.

This isn't battlebots this is FRC FIRST no war here. Hope there will never be a full out battlebots. I hate it when the people at my school whenever I tell them I do FIRST robotics team competition and they assume they I do battlebots I say "no" and then they say that our competition is not cool.

Anyways based on knowledge of past FRC games just drop the idea there is going to be a war game.

The most of generation of students in FIRST now probably will be creating robots for war though, at least that is my prediction. But you know what military technology pretty much always makes it way into civilian life for peaceful purposes. So I guess good can come from it. Like the Xb-47
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47B">Like the X-47b (click me)</a>. The x-47b was the first unmanned aircraft to land on the a aircraft carrier, anyways that technology will probably make it's way into self-driving cars. Anyways you get my point.

But I hope it is not Battlebots. In my opinion FIRST FRC is more challenging than Battlebots because Battlebots are basically the same every year (just destroying the other robot) while FRC robots change every year and there is a tough task every year and only have 6 weeks to build the robot.

Sorry for any typos on a mobile.

[chris_odonnell]

Originally Posted by obaranow2015

I think I may have figured it out, the challenge has to do with wind.

The first numbers are area codes, to Vilnius Lithuania, Rockford IL, and Colchester, all have wind turbine farms. Right now the museums of Lithuania, has an energy and technology wing, which includes wind. In 1957 the museum was destroyed in the soviet war. Rockford IL also has a wind farm, with 63 working wind turbines, and on April 4th 1963 the city had major damage due to a wind storm. Now, Colchester IL, and Colchester in UK both have wind turbine farms, but I can't figure out the last number, 15806.

so yah thats what I think

Running with your theory here... I tried out "15806 wind farm" in the googley, and there are some results, the most interesting ones perhaps: 1) http://www.thewindpower.net/develope...rgiequelle.php shows 15806 as the postal code for Energiequelle's address. 2) U-15806 as the case number in MI about a "long-term renewable energy contract between Detroit Edison Company and Tuscola Bay Wind, LLC".

[theCADguy]

Originally Posted by obaranow2015

I think I may have figured it out, the challenge has to do with wind.

The first numbers are area codes, to Vilnius Lithuania, Rockford IL, and Colchester, all have wind turbine farms. Right now the museums of Lithuania, has an energy and technology wing, which includes wind. In 1957 the museum was destroyed in the soviet war. Rockford IL also has a wind farm, with 63 working wind turbines, and on April 4th 1963 the city had major damage due to a wind storm. Now, Colchester IL, and Colchester in UK both have wind turbine farms, but I can't figure out the last number, 15806.

so yah thats what I think

The game probably won't relate to wind turbines specifically, but turbines rotate, which may hint to using a ball as a scoring object, or even a rotating goal.

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by Fielding S.

Ok, let me throw in my 2 cents.

I really like this Iron Man idea. The number 3 is prominent, yes? Baseball is a prominent theory, right? How many bases are there besides home base in baseball? 3.

I'm thinking of a baseball themed game that has a starting point and three "bases" where tasks are to be performed, such as climbing stairs. The goal is to pass all three bases and reach the starting point under a time limit. As for the objectives of each base, I don't know for sure.

There have been multiple people talking about the sphere, rectangle, and triangle. What shape is a baseball? A sphere.

As for the rectangle and triangle, have you seen the home plate of a baseball field? The shape of the home plate is comprised of two different shapes: a triangle and a rectangle. Also, the infield of a baseball field is called a "diamond". A diamond has four sides and is somewhat rectangular, so it could work as a field shape.

Just my thoughts.

Hmm. While some might find it odd that some people think about baseball in all of this, it's not actually that far fetched. Let's consider the facts.

This game hint was posted by FRC Director Frank Merrick. Now if I asked someone in FRC what they think when they hear the name "Frank", they will likely think of our noble director. However if I were to poll the average passersby at a mall or on the street, the first "Frank" they think of is probably Frank Sinatra.

Frank Sinatra, as most know, had unprecedented, decades-long success as a solo artist and movie star beginning from the "swing era" after World War 2 until his death at the end of the 20th century. He was so talented and loved that calling him simply one of the best selling solo artists of all time only begins to describe him. That descriptor doesn't include his critically-acclaimed role in The Manchurian Candidate, or his founding of The Rat Pack, or being part of the lead cast in one of the most successful musical films of the era, Guys and Dolls. Simply put, Frank Sinatra is a New Jersey native who accomplished more in any given year of his life than in anyone else's entire lifetime, earning such accolades like being one of the earliest recipients of the Kennedy Center Honor in 1983, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom 2 years after that, and earning the Congressional Gold Medal after going over the hump of being eighty years old!

"But what does Frank Sinatra have to do with baseball?"

Well, Frank Sinatra shares the state of his birth with current Cincinnati Reds third baseman and all around totally awesome guy Todd Frazier. Todd Frazier is very proud of his New Jersey heritage, being a major contributor to cleanup after Hurricane Sandy and having exclusively Frank Sinatra songs play as his "walk up" music (my personal favorite he uses is "My Way, one of Sinatra's later hits). He is also a bit of a local legend, having once saved a fan of an opposing team choking in a restaurant with the Heimlich maneuver, hit a home run without having contact with the bat, and being the best friend of occasional bat boy and Cincinnati native Teddy Kremer (who also has Down Syndrome). There's even a fun story where Teddy asked Todd Frazier to go "hit a home run" for him before he went up to the on deck circle in a game last season, and Todd proceeded to scorch the ball into the moon Deck in right field of Great American Ballpark, which was a total babe Ruth moment everyone deserves to know about. He won the NL Rookie of The Year in 2012, awarded by the MLB Player's Association (but not from those wretched media scum who voted for the insidious Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals).

Before being a MLB slugger, Todd Frazier was the winning pitcher for his hometown of Toms River, New Jersey in the 1998 Little League World Series, in a game where he also scored a home run as the first hit of the game. He later won Big East Player of the Year while playing for Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. Suffice to say, he is a great baseball player and my favorite baseball player on my favorite baseball team, the Cincinnati Reds.

What does this have to do with the speculation of baseball being related to the 2014 game? Not a darn thing. But, I figured if you are sifting through hundreds of posts chock full of rampant, unchecked, possibly logic-free speculation, you might as well read up on two really cool people.

Happy Holidays!

Also, I need bout tree fiddy.

[Meshbeard]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

Also, I'm gonna need tree fiddy.

tree fiddy?
loch-ness monster?
must be a water game

[safiq10]

Now this is first I've read of this thread. Now my reasearch AKA (over analyzing) is as follows.

61126/1963=Rockford Illinois>ups>Security FIRST=Rockford Illinois has Professional Hockey and Baseball teams there. The Rockford Icehogs & Rockford Aviators

8234/57= Weight limits reduced 25% effective Jan 1 to May 1st.= Pretty straightforward and has been discussed on CD enough.

62326> Colchester Illinois.
15806>Toques, Spain> toques translated means "to touch". In baseball you touch someone to get them out.

Personally I want hockey over baseball

[Camilo86]

The first numbers are zip codes, to Vilnius Lithuania, Rockford IL, and Colchester, all have wind turbine farms. Right now the museums of Lithuania, has an energy and technology wing, which includes wind. In 1957 the museum was destroyed in the soviet war (as said by obaranow2015). The first numbers in the second set “61126” when flipped you get the “62116”.In the middle numbers (1963) there was a very famous futuristic series (Jetsons, in spanish “Supersonicos“) show. I searched up “1963 supersonicos” (i speak spanish so that is why i searched up Jetson in spanish ) in google and found a youtube video. You can see in the description a brief description in which says “Canal 11 en 1963” (english translation: Channel 11 in 1963). 1963 the zip codes were started (which is why it makes sense to get the locations from the first set) and was also the year in which the Jetson were first shown in channel 11. From the number “62116”, 62 represents the first year of the Jetsons in the TV, 11 represents the channel 11 in which the video we found on youtube was shown as well as the year in which this video was uploaded to youtube (2011), 6 represents the day in which the video was uploaded to youtube.

hypothesis: We are thinking of an air game in which the robot has to lunch some kind of object into some sort of hole with turbines which will push the object (idea from Kevin Thorp’s video and connection to the turbine from the first set of numbers).

*We are still working on finding the what the last set of numbers mean, suggestions help.*

LINKS:
Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=supe...ed=0CAYQ_AUoAA
Video from Kevin Thorp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WNcjkZ6d0w

from joanku, camilo86

[Justin2648]

Alright, I wasn't going to post here but I found something interesting. If you go usfirst.org and look at the address of the loaded page it is http://www3.usfirst.org/. Is that 3 always there and if not, more 3's!!

Happy kickoff!

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Justin2648

Is it just me

It's just you. I get a www, both using my bookmark and using Google.

[Camilo86]

Weird. i don't get the www3... what web browser are you using?

[Justin2648]

This is what I get

[Camilo86]

I see...I tried putting 4,5,6 instead of 3 and the results were:
3: works
4:doesn't work
5: works
6: works

I don't think it has to do with anything. But who knows...

[Team3266Spencer]

Originally Posted by obaranow2015 View Post
I think I may have figured it out, the challenge has to do with wind.

The first numbers are area codes, to Vilnius Lithuania, Rockford IL, and Colchester, all have wind turbine farms. Right now the museums of Lithuania, has an energy and technology wing, which includes wind. In 1957 the museum was destroyed in the soviet war. Rockford IL also has a wind farm, with 63 working wind turbines, and on April 4th 1963 the city had major damage due to a wind storm. Now, Colchester IL, and Colchester in UK both have wind turbine farms, but I can't figure out the last number, 15806.

so yah thats what I think
Running with your theory here... I tried out "15806 wind farm" in the googley, and there are some results, the most interesting ones perhaps: 1) http://www.thewindpower.net/develope...rgiequelle.php shows 15806 as the postal code for Energiequelle's address. 2) U-15806 as the case number in MI about a "long-term renewable energy contract between Detroit Edison Company and Tuscola Bay Wind, LLC".

This seems pretty solid.