2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

[Ian Curtis]

In keeping with the Italy theory, a Sabot is a type of wooden shoe worn in some European countries. Hmm..... Five shoes tangling with pasta?

[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/


.

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

[Adam Richards]

Originally Posted by Stud Man Dan

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

No, inflatable clowns!

[Freddy Schurr]

Is this serious, I would of thunk that they release Dec 30

[Nathan Pell]

I did some googling on the shovel issues; I thought this was interesting since last year's hint had a musical reference to it.

"Pank Shovel's music is as unique as its members. Their sound is a Punk Rock/Hip-Hop hybrid that crosses boundaries and challenges the genre's traditional misogynistic stereotypes. Their songs strong lyrical content describes real life experiences with childlike imagination."

So could the "Shovel's show" mean Pank Shovel and one his songs?

[Pat Roche]

Sorry didnt have time to go through all the posts this might be a repeat. The last two lines look like they belong together making this a riddle(obviously).

five 'bots tangling with pasta
a game piece obsessed with a shovel's show and seeing Montana's green heights

[AmyPrib]

In reading some info on the state Montana, here was an excerpt:
"...and the dry farming was very successful with the comparatively new and valuable crops of durum, or macaroni wheat, and Russian barley, which is used in straw for winter feed to sheep and neat cattle."

Macaroni = pasta... Maybe instead of corn on the field, it's wheat, or hay, or possible a mess of pvc batons (like said many times). Heh, who wouldn't love to have wheat all gnurled up in their drivetrain.

I don't think they will be pool noodles. Those tear apart very easily, can you imagine robot claws digging into those things?

Also, Montana's green heights. Joe Montana and Trent Green both quarterbacks, yeah? Both had some great successes and "heights".

Montana, as stated has a lot of varied terrains and physical elevations. I definitely think there will be a vertical aspect to this game, but, in what way who knows.

Minerals and Mining have been the lead industry in Montana since the 1800's. Lumber, forests, logging shovels... a game piece obsessed with the shovel's show... maybe...some animal in the forest who doesn't want the logger to tear down the lumber... lol.. I don't know where to go with that yet.

Just a few incoherent thoughts as of now.

And yes Freddy204, this hint came directly from the FIRST personnel.

[phrontist]

Originally Posted by Andrew Blair

Secondly, the 5 robots tangling is probably not to be taken literally, but consider this for the strategy people: What if the format was 3 vs 3, and 1 robot from either alliance had to voluntarily agree to sacrifice their driving ability (i.e., stay on a pressure pad), in order for either alliance to play. So, for example, for 15 seconds into the gameplay after autonomous, if noone had gotten onto the pressure pad, noone would play till like the last 25 seconds, or not at all. If nothing could be worked out between opposing alliances, the best autonomous would win the day. Man, I hope thats not it though. Bit too evil for my liking...

That would be great!!!