pic: 2007 Game Hint?

[Jay H 237]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

I think the banana's just there for a joke. Remember how Dave's game animations always have a splash screen at the end about "Havabanana Productions" (or something to that effect)?

I thought of something (my apologies to Gwen Stefani) in that he could be just trying to tell us that a water game is bananas,
B-A-N-A-N-A-S. Let me here you say a water game is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S. The water game is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by sburro

I see three blue, red, green

I attached a small portion I photoshoped and played with the contrast a little to see the colors

Exactly what I was talking about. Thanks. You can see Yellow and possibly Orange as well. And guess what? That's 5 colors.

[Collin Fultz]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

I thought of something (my apologies to Gwen Stefani) in that he could be just trying to tell us that a water game is bananas,
B-A-N-A-N-A-S. Let me here you say a water game is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S. The water game is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S.

I was thinking along the same lines, but took it a bit deeper.

Gwen was the lead singer of No Doubt for a while.

Maybe Dave is trying to say that there is no doubt that there will be water in 2007

[Tazlikesrobots]

Looks like someone has attended a MATE ROV competition. But an underwater competition could add another element. The ability for a robot to move in any axis (x,y,z)!

[Joe J.]

I was looking at this picture and those colored dots on the back of the robot, if you zoom in on them a few times and they kind of look like people. the red dot is the body/shirt, the light colored circle is the head which looks like it has to black dots as eyes. Awhile back there was that picture of the curling robots on a FIRST Field (I think Dave posted it but I can seem to find where it is to be sure) anyway I have it on my computer, and I looked at the top edge of the picture and you can see the first row of the audience and the reflection people on the robots back look just like the audience in the curling picture.

Maybe I've been reading the 2006 Hint Discussion thread to long and its making me see things....

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Philmont629

Awhile back there was that picture of the curling robots on a FIRST Field (I think Dave posted it but I can seem to find where it is to be sure)

It was actually an external link that has since been broken.

If it's not somewhere else in the galleries, I will upload it there later.

edit: I couldn't find it in CD-Media, so I uploaded it.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...le&picid=12245

[|20807 61|2|_]

Maybe our robots will have to be run by water? I have no clue its a long strech but i mean would they really be that mean to make us make our robots water resistant/ cause i can see a lot of robots failing at first attempt.

[Faith]

Originally Posted by Billfred

By the way, why does the short blue robot always get picked on? It got a 2X ball to the head in FIRST Frenzy's animation (not to mention the jumping up and down trying to hang), whacked in the head by a big hand as it tried to climb the ramp in Stack Attack, was jerked around by its human player in Triple Play (and was the only one lacking an arm), and now this!

And this year's animation hit it with way more then 2 balls...

I kind of feel sorry for the little bot...

[nuggetsyl]

maybe the robot is looking though glass. Like looking at a fish tank for something. That is why the picture is distorted.

shaun

[|20807 61|2|_]

Originally Posted by nuggetsyl

maybe the robot is looking though glass. Like looking at a fish tank for something. That is why the picture is distorted.

shaun

this is a good idea. im thinking the banana has to do with us having to maybe "climb" on top of something pick it up and bring it across a line before being tagged? kinda like capture the flag? cause the water distorts the picture and the blue line going down the center with the fish on the other side maybe symbolizing the other team? and why does the robot look sad? this can mean so many different things. gosh dave why do u make this so hard

[Alekat]

I honestly don't understand why people try so hard to see something that isn't there. Any sane person knows there will be no water game.

Water=Bad for Bots!

I guess it could be fun though, at least for Dave.

[Adam McLeod]

Seems like a Salinger reference to me..."A Perfect Day for Bananafish".

A Bananafish being a fish that goes into a banana hole, then stuffs itself with bananas, thus becoming too engorged to escape the hole.

Crazy guy...

[geeknerd99]

Originally Posted by Alekat

I honestly don't understand why people try so hard to see something that isn't there. Any sane person knows there will be no water game.

Water=Bad for Bots!

I guess it could be fun though, at least for Dave.

Well, I don't think many people were expecting projectiles this year either. Who knows what the GDC will come up with next? Time travel?

[b-rant]

well maybe the robot is considered as part of a name because it's trying to be like the fish but there is a banana on it so maybe "banana fish"?
well i know banana fish is a magazine from japan but it's also a brand of crib bedding so maybe in the 2007 game there will be no ramp onto a platform but the robot will have to get onto the platform all by itself

[David Sherman]

I think the four colors being reflected on the robot may indicate we will have not just blue and red alliances but green and maybe yellow too. That would be a lot of robots on the field. One thing that keeps popping up in my head is the little plow bot is always used as an example of building strong or limitations of designs...so this may be not something that will happen to all robots. The blue line looks like it is part of the blue starting box. Not quite sure why he felt like putting fish in. I also think having projectiles this year made the game more exciting, I don't think they will get rid of the projectiles idea...just tweak it.