[FRC Blog] 2014 Game Hint

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Mullen

People are looking at the wrong road sign for the 8234/57 on google streetview. Don't look at the weight reduction sign. Turn to the right, you will see a Junction sign. The second set of numbers, 61126/1963, also brings up a location in TX that just happens to be on Junction Hwy. What happens at a junction? Either 2 or more things become 1, or you are are forced to make a choice between which route you want to take.

The name of the game will be "Conjunction Junction".

The robots will be tasked with hooking up words and phrases and clauses.

You're welcome.

Also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPoBE-E8VOc. Learn something today, children.

[IKE]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

The name of the game will be "Conjunction Junction".

The robots will be tasked with hooking up words and phrases and clauses.

You're welcome.

The pit scouts will be going around asking teams "What's your function?"

[WaterClaw]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

The name of the game will be "Conjunction Junction".

The robots will be tasked with hooking up words and phrases and clauses.

You're welcome.

Derailed. Pun intended.

[bbdickins]

They're Cartesian coordinates. It's a hockey stick.

Originally Posted by cgmv123

8234/57 = 144.45614035087719298245614035088
61126/1963 = 31.139072847682119205298013245033
62326/15806 = 3.9431861318486650638997848918132

Notice how they're all non-terminating decimals? Let it be known that the game will be irrational this year!

[Cheetahbest]

Just out of curiosity sake I googled space baseball to see if it actually happened or if it's some obscure game I've never heard of. And this is what I found.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...--himself.html

Does this mean the robot has to do all of it at once

[MoistRobot]

Weight reduction means... Hovercraft!
I'm predicting hovercraft hockey and I won't hear any different...

[MechEng83]

Originally Posted by QuantumPangolin

Notice how they're all non-terminating decimals? Let it be known that the game will be irrational this year!

Math clarification: the numbers are rational. They are expressed as one whole number over another -- the definition of rational. A more accurate representation would be to say that the game is non-terminating....

Originally Posted by MechEng83

Math clarification: the numbers are rational. They are expressed as one whole number over another -- the definition of rational. A more accurate representation would be to say that the game is non-terminating....

Right, but you can't just take the hint as-is. That would be too easy . . . gotta do some unnecessary conversions first!
Though a non-terminating game sounds just as fun.

[raptaconehs]

Don't know if this matters at all but in 2014 it will be the 25 anniversary of the NFL.

[MooreteP]

Originally Posted by raptaconehs

Don't know if this matters at all but in 2014 it will be the 25 anniversary of the NFL.

Umm, where did you get this from?
It's going to be SuperBowl XLVIII last I checked.

[Pratik Kunapuli]

Originally Posted by raptaconehs

Don't know if this matters at all but in 2014 it will be the 25 anniversary of the NFL.

The NFL was created in 1920 (source).

[CASN8R]

Originally Posted by raptaconehs

Don't know if this matters at all but in 2014 it will be the 25 anniversary of the NFL.

It is the 25 anniversary of Madden Football guys.

[Cash4587]

Originally Posted by raptaconehs

Don't know if this matters at all but in 2014 it will be the 25 anniversary of the NFL.

Just because it is the 25th of madden does not mean that the nfl is also 25 years old, just a thought. That was probably where you got 25 from..

[Johnson.2937]

Maybe we are looking at the message the wrong way instead of 8234/57, 61126/1963, 62326/15806 maybe we should look at the comas as arbitrary separators of larger numbers and the actual numbers look like

8234/5761126/196362326/15806