2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

[Alex Golec]

"five 'bots tangling with pasta"
Five? such a strange number, it goesnt seem to work out if you want equal alliances. I really have no clue what to make of that. Pasta reminds me of those foam noodles. that kids always take to the pool. Those could be really fun scoring objects, but might induce the same dread and annoyance as the floppies did in 99.

"a game piece obsessed with a shovel's show"
what does a shovel show? You move stuff with it, so if the show the process of liftinf stuff up into a goal or something like that? Could indicate a highly offensive game where a lot of scoring is required.

"and seeing Montana's green heights"

well, green was the unofficial color of the CMU, so this might suggest it's comeback. Montana is a rather large state, this + the word heights seems like it points to there being a large object in the middle of the field, like a huge green goal or whatnot.

To summarize, my thoughts on it are:
1) Foam noodles.
2) Use of the CMU Cam
3) A large green goal/tower the size of montana in the middle of the field.

I'm not quite sure the litereal meaning of "Five 'bots tangling with pasta." It could be scary. Six was quite crowded last year, but it made for even alliances.

Well, only 2 weeks left. I'll definitely be watching the evolution of this thread with interest.
_Alex

[phrontist]

Originally Posted by Alex469

"and seeing Montana's green heights"

well, green was the unofficial color of the CMU, so this might suggest it's comeback. Montana is a rather large state, this + the word heights seems like it points to there being a large object in the middle of the field, like a huge green goal or whatnot.

Montana is also an extremely popular brand of spraypaint, particularly amongst graffiti artists. My brother has several nice hues of green...

5 Makes me think that perhaps we'll be going back to two on two matches, with the "placebo" coming back, perhaps this time in a way essential to the game. It could be a target of some sort.

Does anyone have the exact wording of the VCU "snow" hint? I was there, but I can't remember...

[Mike AA]

I don't believe the game pieces will be noodles at-all. Mainly because this isn't an item which any team in the northern states will have an easy time finding due to the fact we don't swim much during the winter. I do however believe there will be something stored which gets dumped like the balls got dumped a few years back from above the human player. Then the item, easiest item to make is baton shaped, gets picked up and stored into a "goal", likely a box?

-Mike

[Bill Moore]

Originally Posted by Mike AA

I don't believe the game pieces will be noodles at-all. Mainly because this isn't an item which any team in the northern states will have an easy time finding due to the fact we don't swim much during the winter.

Pool noodles can be ordered online at any season. Just as bins were ordered in 2003, and balls in 2004.

Repeat after me: "The Internet is my friend."

[sburro]

Originally Posted by Bill Moore

Pool noodles can be ordered online at any season. Just as bins were ordered in 2003, and balls in 2004.

Repeat after me: "The Internet is my friend."

Imagine all noodles in the US and Canada all sold out in minutes. I better buy stock in a noodle company

[Swan217]

Originally Posted by sburro

Imagine all noodles in the US and Canada all sold out in minutes. I better buy stock in a noodle company

In that case, you better start now and buy up all of the noodles before the season starts and everyone else rushes to buy them.

In terms of the original clue, I've got a song stuck in my head:
On top of Mount Pasta
All covered with Cheese
I lost my poor meatball
Because somebody's robot went berzerk in autonomous mode

Or something like that...

[sburro]

Does five robots equal bigger field?

[Andrew Blair]

Originally Posted by sburro

Does five robots equal bigger field?

If its five total, logically it would call for a smaller field. it was 3v3 this year. 3+3=6. Yay for math!!

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by sburro

Does five robots equal bigger field?

A bigger field than when there was 6? Probably not. But that's if the five 'bots refers to robots.

Everything in this clue has multiple meanings.

I'm not going to assume that "five 'bots" means five robots.

[Dan Richardson]

well keeping with the historical joe montana perspective you could look at it like this. In 1984 Joe Montana led the NFC in passing for the second time, and won his 2nd superbowl.

In the book 1984 2+2=5 so putting everything together It will be a 2v2 set up.

[sburro]

Originally Posted by Stud Man Dan

well keeping with the historical joe montana perspective you could look at it like this. In 1984 Joe Montana led the NFC in passing for the second time, and won his 2nd superbowl.

In the book 1984 2+2=5 so putting everything together It will be a 2v2 set up.

But according to last year, more teams were at each reginal allowing first to due 3v3. A 2v2 would only work with less teams at eah regional OR less playing time per team, something I do not think first wants to do.


OR

smaller field and two field per regional

Sorry I ment 5v5 on the last post

[ducttapehaxor]

Maybe the 'bots hint might be referring to 5 bots dots placed on the field, it would also help to fit that the bots dots are regularly in groups of 5 or 6 (this case 5)


from google searched define: bots dots
Rubberized circular bumps that are aligned in groups of five or six to represent dashed road lines. Bots Dots replace painted road lines in sub-tropical or tropical climates. They are not used in colder climates as they would be ripped off by the snow plows.

[ChuckDickerson]

My guess is 3v3 like last year but there will be some sort of task at the beginning that there will be some sort of race to do first. The first alliance to get this task done gets to disable one of the opposing alliances robots thus making 5 active robots on the field. Autonomous will again be at the beginning thus making it more important to disable an opposing robot.

I vote pasta = pool noodles as scoring objects.

[Elgin Clock]

http://www.tedsmontanagrill.com/

I like that Montana reference a lot better. And guess what? It's owned by Ted Turner, founder of among other things, Turner Entertainment, based out of Atlanta, GA.

That quite possibly has to be more than a coincidence, and if it's not that's just amazing.

Also, dealing with the Montana FIRST connection; of the 10 teams form Montana, none are registered for The Championship event, but 9 out of 10 are definitely sponsored by NASA.

[Dan Richardson]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

http://www.tedsmontanagrill.com/


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so what are you saying, elgin, is we are going to be using inflatable BUFFALO!!!!??? WOot