Official 2005 Clue Thread

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by SilverStar

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

Look through the posts - Yes.

Fit of laughter? Idk.. maybe?

All this guessing is making me want to ask just one simple question.

Dave, how is that animation coming along?
Are you spending a 3rd straight winter break behind the screen of a computer running 3D Studio Max making some more funny robots do things that defy gravity?

[Tom Bottiglieri]

this is interesting...

http://www.waleapparatus.com/details/11_2365.asp

ACE (Amethyst Contrast Enhancer) glass can be used to "optimize the readability" of television displays under high ambient light conditions.

The banner sensors were susceptible to malfunction due to ambient light.

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Look through the posts - Yes.

Fit of laughter? Idk.. maybe?

All this guessing is making me want to ask just one simple question.

Dave, how is that animation coming along?
Are you spending a 3rd straight winter break behind the screen of a computer running 3D Studio Max making some more funny robots do things that defy gravity?

I don't use 3D Studio Max, because I refuse to use a PC. It's all done with Lightwave on a Mac.

-dave

[Pin Man]

also another thought... Maybe when they say PI, they mean something along the lines of a circle... like a circular field...

[Max Lobovsky]

Originally Posted by Pin Man

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

Ah, I didn't even consider the three elements in that quote. That does seem to indicate 3 players on the field, and I think its definitley possible for FIRST to make the 6 (well probably 12 for spares) robots neccesary.

[Paradox1350]

Originally Posted by SilverStar

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

Most def. We know Dave Lavery looks on the forums. If I was someone high up in FIRST and knew what was going on, I'd be reading this myself and laughing up a storm.


EDIT: And Dave himself proves my point between the time that I started writing this post, and the time that I hit submit . . .

Good luck finishing it up, Dave. Last year's animation was absolutely awesome ^_^

[Hieb]

Just to reinforce the baseball interpretation, most of Dave's recent posts, at least in the YMTC threads, have started with baseball analogies.

[Lil' Lavery]

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.

Pi - The Drum
You - George
Me - John

Forms a triangle!!!!
In the center of which is something they are holding!

What are they holding?!

UPDATE: They're all musical instruments. What does that mean? The trumpet seems closest to the center. Trumpets are used to wake people up. Maybe waking up is leaving auto mode. Whatever the case, I'm positive Lavery was indicating this album cover. It's just so like him. First Led Zep, now the Fab Four. And hey, he mentioned the fab four in another clue! Let me find it.

My dad has 832 songs by the Beatles on iTunes and owns every single beatles album released in the US and the UK. Interesting.....

[M. Hicken]

my vote is the hexagonal field

Crystal system: Hexagonal-R; 32 (trigonal-trapezohedral)
is the structural shape of amethyst as per
http://www.mineralminers.com/html/ameminfo.htm

based on the nature of First, i dont think they would do away with the teamwork. While 3 vs 3 would make staging a bit more hectic, it woud make the days run faster, in theory

just my $.02

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

My dad has 832 songs by the Beatles on iTunes and owns every single beatles album released in the US and the UK. Interesting.....

I thought I had caught Dave pirating music. but he owns them so I guess he's off the hook..

Until next time dave does something of legal "blur",
Tom

[bigqueue]

Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil

This is an offical game clue for the 2005 season from a FIRST e-mail blast on December 30, 2004. It is documented in this thread. It has been brought into the Rumor Mill for discussion to keep the E-Mail Blast Archive in a more pure state...Any ideas?

They both also had stolen base records a few years apart....I don't know if this means anything.

Check out:
http://www.ilbaseball.com/sb_rec.html

-Quentin

[bigqueue]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

My dad has 832 songs by the Beatles on iTunes and owns every single beatles album released in the US and the UK. Interesting.....

Perhaps if you play the game backwards, it plays another clue? (can you even do that with iTunes?)

[Bcahn836]

what about the game objects being baseballs and not kickballs or boxes?

[663.keith]

well a slice of pie (pi) forms a triangle, like a pyramid!

OK.... now that I got that off my back, I see two interpretations for the word between, one being between as something in the middle of these three things, or between as something in common.

my guess that the between refers to something in common, in this case, three. I do not think that a three on three alliance is conceivable because of all the logistic problems talked about in the the center is out topic. Saying that, I think that the three will be something to do with scoring objects, possibly three different types of things to score, or three places to score.

Also during the kickoff, Dave mentioned that the IR sensors weren't necessary this year (first Frenzy), but not the next (this 2005 season). I can imagine that the autonomous mode will be extremely important, possibly having the capability to score points during autonomous mode

just my $.02

[Arefin Bari]

Originally Posted by 663.keith

Also during the kickoff, Dave mentioned that the IR sensors weren't necessary this year (first Frenzy), but not the next (this 2005 season). I can imagine that the autonomous mode will be extremely important, possibly having the capability to score points during autonomous mode

just my $.02

But didnt robots score points during past two year's Autonomous mode. 2003 (stack attack) robots who broke the wall had boxes in thier zone after the end of autonomous mode. Past season 2004 (FIRST frenzy) team 190 hung during autonomous (50 points).

Baseballs, i am not really supporting that idea, (this might sound crazy, cause i dont think FIRST will make a game to throw baseballs around unless the whole field is in a cage and all the drivers and human players are wearing helmets and gaurds) i am thinking about safety. what if a robot has the capibility of throw the ball somewhere? wouldnt that be a safety issue?