No official FIRST game hint yet??

[Jaine Perotti]

Originally Posted by Swampdude

But I think we have a winner:
Donut Discord

I think you are REALLY on to something.

Desserts/Donuts and Posts... this game has got it all.

In fact, you can make a perfect anaolgy with this one:
"Life is short. Eat dessert first." :: "Matches are short. Get to the donuts first."

There is always a fight for scoring objects, and it always helps to be first! This reminds me of the 2003 game, when IMHO, the match was almost always determined by who could get to the top of the ramp and push over the boxes first. Perhaps this means that autonomous mode WILL be first, and who ever gets to the donuts(dessert) first, will have an advantage for the rest of the match.

Going back against my earlier opinions, I think that probably the number speculation (based on the triple play by John Neun and the '4 is kind of like 5') isn't really all that valid because there is too much ambiguity associated with these numbers (odd isn't it -- ambiguous numbers) within this context. The 3's and the 5's could mean infinitley many things in this case, and I am not sure if there is enough solid evidence based on what Dave has said to argue the existence of specific elements of the game associated with 3 or 5.

I do think that there is solid evidence that the number 4 may play a large role in this game.

Originally Posted by dlavery

Hey! that was my fourth post of the day! Woohoo!

However, I do not think that the number 4 will play a role in alliances because it has been stated that only 3 teams will be winners of each regional. However, that doesn't mean that there won't be changes in the alliance system from last year...and again the ambiguity of these numbers factor in. Who knows what they might do?

I really like the idea of there being 4 posts to hang or place donuts on. This takes the evidence provided and draws a reasonable conclusion.

As I thought about the quote more (Hey! that was my fourth post of the day! Woohoo!), I was wondering if there might be a way to somehow "claim" these posts...for example, if you put your alliance's color donut on top, then you claim the points in that stack/post for your own. If, for example, there were a total of 4 posts on the field, if you were able to claim all four of them for your alliance...you might be saying "That was my fourth post of the match! Woohoo!" Also, trying to get donuts onto posts would also be a good way to challenge human players. It would almost be like playing the game "Ring Toss". I think that "Ring toss" would add a good human element.

Overall, I think it is really difficult to tell what Dave means by all of this, and in interpereting clues, we should be careful not to be lead astray by our own complex interperetations...in other words, we shouldn't be over thinking it.
We should probably avoid this: "The word 'dessert' has 7 letters, which, when multiplied by 4, equals 28, which is a multiple of 14. And when 5 is subtracted from 14, you get 9, which is the square of the number 3! That means that there will be 3 teams per alliance!"

Let's keep it simple...and keep on guessing. This is fun.

--Jaine

PS. I had a thought about what the donuts could be made of. I know that there has been some speculation about inner tubes; what about those 'floaties' that little kids wear around their waists before they know how to swim? Those are pretty easy to get a hold of and probably less expensive than inner tubes.