Official 2005 Clue Thread

[Levin571]

Mu in lower case greek looks like a U
Me is John Neun speaking and Neun is like the greek letter Nu
and between these letters and Pi in the greek alphabet are both Xi and Omicron

Any ideas come from this?

[JoeXIII'007]

Originally Posted by phrontist

Look at this bloody album cover people! John Lennon (Neun), known for his rosy specs, and George Harrison (Burns) have a drum between them. A circle! Pi! Muhahahaha! George Burns was in the movie the beatles made about this album. This makes perfect sense. Everything is coming together.

Phrontist, the album cover you're talking about (and had an attachment for) is from The Beatles and the title of it is "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band". There are 13 songs on the soundtrack:
1.-(The title)
2.-With a Little Help From my Friends
3.-Lucy in the sky of Diamonds
4.-Getting Better
5.-Fixing a Hole
6.-She's Leaving Home
7.-Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
8.-Within You Without You
9.-When I'm Sixty-Four (64)
10.-Lovely Rita
11.-Good Morning Good Morning
12.(Title) Reprise
13. A Day in the Life

It looks like a lot of this album from the cover to the title of the songs could in fact be FIRST related. Good Lead Phrontist!

Now for sure, we're definitely having a Hexagonal field. FIRST has done it before, and they sure will do it again. Probably this time around.

(Sorry if this repeated anything)

-Joe

Originally Posted by phrontist

Everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that this year is going to be called FIRST Frenzy: Something. Now what was unusual about last years game, in the context of all the others. All the elements were recycled. The kickballs, the big yellow ball, the goals, the bar: all from past years. Now look at the games that last years game didn't have anything in common with:

• Stack Attack
• Toroid Terror
• Hexagon Havoc

Remember that spotlight about one-one-one-one-one-one? Maybe that's what we'll have? 6 teams on a hexagonal feild! w00t!

Following this train of thought, you would have the barrier in the middle of the field from Stack Attack. That fits with the "something" preventing people from interacting with each other.

[phrontist]

Originally Posted by MisterX

Thanks Ted Boucher for pointing out the Burns thing I cant believ I missed that....
Let me focus on season 8 shall we were it is strongly argued that Monty Burns is at his strongest strength compared to other seasons
During an opening couch scene of one such episode it is a direct parody of the previoulsy mentioned album cover, being very closly similar to the animation of it as scene in "The Making of Sgt. Pepper"
It is during this season too that Homer takes his trip after eatting Wax (need I say that several characters in the album cover are wax figures) On this trip lyrics from the Beatles son "I am a Walrus" are quoted
Also some believe that Barney's belch during the "trip" is a reference to the final chord in "A Day in the Life"

However my main point of season 8 is that the PYRAMID Homer climbs to see the coyote looks exactly like the one in "Yellow Submarine" now, maybe we to might need to climb the pyramid (previously stated by many as a field piece)

edit: Also I just had pointed out to me (thank you Justin) that in Season 12 (FIRST began in 1992 and this clue came out 12 years later) the Beatles make a cameo dressed in their Sgt. Peppers garb to recruit teens to join the army a.k.a. ALLIANCE!

I just saw yellow submarine yesterday, and if I remember correctly it's a zigguratish pyrmaid, with multiple levels, like pyramids stacked atop one another. Oddly enough Amethyst crystals are essentially a bunch of pyramidal forms atop one another:

Originally Posted by Princeton Amethyst Rendering Explanation

The model for the crystal consists of approximately 450 transparent, intersecting polyhedra. We use volume ray tracing to modulate the color and amount of light trasmitted through the crystal, according to a 3d rgba texture. For this modulation, we used a random turbulence function, and added dark splotches (yes, that's the technical term) by increasing opacity along random walks through the 3-d texture.

Taken from here

Maybe we'll get to climb up a ziggurat!

[Steve Howland]

The greek symbol Xi, as referred to in Levin571's post, looks like this:
http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/prime/...greek/gr11.gif. This would support the barrier idea, especially the capital Xi.

[phrontist]

Originally Posted by JoeXIII'007

Phrontist, the album cover you're talking about (and had an attachment for) is from The Beatles and the title of it is "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band". There are 13 songs on the soundtrack:
1.-(The title)
2.-With a Little Help From my Friends
3.-Lucy in the sky of Diamonds
4.-Getting Better
5.-Fixing a Hole
6.-She's Leaving Home
7.-Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
8.-Within You Without You
9.-When I'm Sixty-Four (64)
10.-Lovely Rita
11.-Good Morning Good Morning
12.(Title) Reprise
13. A Day in the Life

It looks like a lot of this album from the cover to the title of the songs could in fact be FIRST related. Good Lead Phrontist!

Now for sure, we're definitely having a Hexagonal field. FIRST has done it before, and they sure will do it again. Probably this time around.

(Sorry if this repeated anything)

-Joe

Fixing a Hole - Hole in the center?
Lucy in the sky of Diamonds - Diamonds man! Diamonds! "Girl with kaliedescope eyes"! John lennon! Rose glasses! Muhahaha!
With a Little Help From my Friends - Alliances!

Oh, and I knew bloody well the album title.

[roberthan]

I have serval theories:

• since both baseball player made unassited triple plays, maybe instead of having a timed autonomous mode, the autonomous mode will continue for 30 sec until certain condition are achieved
• maybe just free for all with three robots or three teams 2vs. 2 vs.2
• the purple glasses might mean if you look beyond the red & blue teams you might see something

[Levin571]

Another possible idea is that even though red and blue are against eachother they have to work together in order to complete one or more of the objectives on the field

[phrontist]

Ooooooh! Of course this ties into the big beatles conspiracy theory, with all it's hints. Remember, on Sgt. Pepper these lyrics appear:

So let me introduce to you, the one and only Billy Shears!

Billy Shears was, of course, Ringo's stand in. But a lot of people thought he was william campbell, winner of the Paul look alike contest. He was a FAKE, or dare I say...

PLACEBO!

Oh yes, and that would mesh nicely with my last post! (The one about borrowing from previous years)

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Levin571

Mu in lower case greek looks like a U
Me is John Neun speaking and Neun is like the greek letter Nu
and between these letters and Pi in the greek alphabet are both Xi and Omicron

Any ideas come from this?

Sure.. Unnoficial FIRST Fraternity. Delta Omicron Xi. DOX
Freaky...

[phrontist]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Sure.. Unnoficial FIRST Fraternity. Delta Omicron Xi. DOX
Freaky...

GASP!

Originally Posted by phrontist

Ooooooh! Of course this ties into the big beatles conspiracy theory, with all it's hints. Remember, on Sgt. Pepper these lyrics appear:



Billy Shears was, of course, Ringo's stand in. But a lot of people thought he was william campbell, winner of the Paul look alike contest. He was a FAKE, or dare I say...

PLACEBO!

Oh yes, and that would mesh nicely with my last post! (The one about borrowing from previous years)

Can you clarify the link to your last post?

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I wonder if the FIRST game designers look through our speculative posts and have a fit of laughter.

[Jaine Perotti]

While wearing Amethyst colored glasses...

What if the actual drivers station wall was purple...?

...if there are certain objects on the playing field that were purple, they would then be difficult to see.

...look closely...

hmm... very interesting indeed.

[Bcahn836]

i mean this Beatles conspiracy does kinda hold up look at last years game hint Led Zeplin lyrics

[Pin Man]

Originally Posted by Max Lobovsky

I think its pretty clear from the shape of amethyst gems and from the triple-play clue that we are going back to the hexagon fields with 3 teams. Now for the "Pi, you, and me" part...

"pi, you and me" maybe something like one team vs another team vs like a FIRST made robot?