9328490238209

[Marshingjay]

9+3+2+8+4+9+0+2+3+8+2+0+9 = 59

Psalms 59:1 Deliver me from my enemies, O God;
be my fortress against those who are attacking me.

fortress

stronghold

significance?

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by Marshingjay

significance?

no

[mrnoble]

New game: door-to-door evangelism

[Electronica1]

While I am pretty sure this isn't a hint, if you look up the number before and after the center zero you get dark pink and dark lime green. The only time in FRC I remember those colors is the vision targets in 2009. (if this was a hint, that could mean we will have 2009 style mobile goals with blue and red flags on top)

[tindleroot]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

New game: dock-to-dock evangelism

FTFY

[gegozi]

Its the sum of all the askii codes of all the characters in the encryption password possibly...
or some other mathematical equation...

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by MrMARVINMan

This number (9328490238209) when converted from hexadecimal to text, becomes 39 33 32 38 34 39 30 32 33 38 32 30 39. When these numbers are plugged into in ASCII table, they become these characters: ‘! &”’RS !& RS’.

I'm not certain what 'converted from hexadecimal to text' means if this is the answer. I can get a lot of different answers, but that one isn't among them. Also, the character translation isn't square. In decimal, where 39 is an apostrophe (not a single open or close quote), R and S are 82 and 83, which are not represented.

Interpreting the original number as decimal gives "0x01" as the last byte, which can't map to 39 no matter how hard I try. Interpreting it as hexadecimal gives "0x09"; no better. Having 9s, it can't be octal. As far as I can tell, MrMARVINMan's post is all smoke that doesn't even bother with mirrors.

Edit:

Originally Posted by gegozi

Its the sum of all the askii codes of all the characters in the encryption password possibly...
or some other mathematical equation...

An average ASCII code is about 75. To reach this sum, you'd need about 128 billion characters. Even if they averaged 128 (just above the highest true ASCII value), it would take 75 billion characters. Doesn't seem likely!

[Shifter]

Interesting that the FLL field mat had a similar (even if unrelated) "easter egg" cipher this year:

http://ev3lessons.com/images/resources/puzzles/2015.jpg

And yes, some teams did decrypt it.

[angelah]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

. Or, if the game piece is not an American style football, it will be the JW Hol-ee Roller, because that looks more like a soccer ball, and fits more closely with the more global style of "football" and is offered through multiple outlets in red and blue, and is durable. In fact, I think that is more likely. It was previously suggested as a game piece in this post in 2006.

EDIT: And wouldn't ya know it, the Hol-ee Roller comes in a football shape too. Here's your game piece guys.

The Hol-ee Roller shapes (hexagons) match the pattern on the edge of the red flag in the Stronghold video. And the blue flag has the corresponding oblong cut-out shape from the football toy in the same place.

ETA: And those are made of rubber.... Something about a rubber duck clue in the "security breach" video...

[matthewdenny]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

EDIT: And wouldn't ya know it, the Hol-ee Roller comes in a football shape too. Here's your game piece guys.

sanddrag has spoken.

That would be a really cool game piece.

[Foster]

Ascii? Lets do Old School. Use the numbers on the phone pad and covert to words. Too lazy? Use this one: http://phonespell.org/

we-at-I-90-a-eta-09

It's clear, Frank is on the road looking for Corn Dogs. He's on I90, his ETA back is on the 9th.

But as with all clues, it's not much of a help, since I90 runs from Seattle to Boston. Coast to Coast. Oh wait is Coast to Coast a clue? Or I90 the clue since it goes past Cambridge in Boston, and there is a Cambridge in England that would have been there in medieval times?

[mwmac]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

EDIT: And wouldn't ya know it, the Hol-ee Roller comes in a football shape too. Here's your game piece guys.

sanddrag has spoken.

For those of us given to game speculation at this time of year, this post has plenty of food for thought. One more item, the newly-adopted FRC blue color http://www.firstinspires.org/home is a near perfect match for the shade of blue for the postulated game pieces http://www.amazon.com/JW-Pet-Company.../dp/B0002DJX9Y, http://www.petsmart.com/dog/toys/jw-...6-catid-100118.

[gegozi]

Originally Posted by mwmac

For those of us given to game speculation at this time of year, this post has plenty of food for thought. One more item, the newly-adopted FRC blue color http://www.firstinspires.org/home is a near perfect match for the shade of blue for the postulated game pieces http://www.amazon.com/JW-Pet-Company.../dp/B0002DJX9Y, http://www.petsmart.com/dog/toys/jw-...6-catid-100118.

I hope we don't need to shoot this, if this is our game piece, since the aerodynamics would be extremely complicated.

Plus, aren't all the different components supposed to be related?
As in the castles and 9328490238209

[mwmac]

Originally Posted by gegozi

I hope we don't need to shoot this, if this is our game piece, since the aerodynamics would be extremely complicated.

Plus, aren't all the different components supposed to be related?
As in the castles and 9328490238209

Two things:
Robotics is the hardest fun you will have...

Sanddrag referenced the Battle of the Golden Spurs at which the opposing forces were very dissimilar i.e. mounted knights vs. infantry. I think the GDC might well consider having two game pieces with different gameplay characteristics and design considerations.

[SquishyIce]

9328490238209 is somewhere around the national debt at this point in 2008.

Overdrive mk. II anybody?