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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

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a game piece obsessed with a shovel’s show
2001’s game piece (balls) obsessed with making a comeback. (Mulligan=redo)
Or
Golf balls marking the return of balls as a game object, with the object being to scoop them up.
I don't think FIRST would implement golf balls as as the main scoring object. They are too small for a 3'x3'x5' FIRST robot. (Although it would be a good one for a Vex game.) If golf balls were the main scoring object, and a robot scooped up several hundred, and then somehow spilled them all out, it would be horrible for field reset to try to round up every last golf ball. (Click on the link to see what I mean. )
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

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I don't think FIRST would implement golf balls as as the main scoring object. They are too small for a 3'x3'x5' FIRST robot.
It was just a random thought. If anything, I'm leaning towards the mulligan (golf term for redo) part of the equation, rather than a golf ball itself.
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

Okay, so let's play word association ...

"five 'bots tangling with pasta"
- I also thought Pool Noodle

"a game piece obsessed with a shovel's show"
- shovel = spade?
- Sam Spade (portrayed by Humphrey Bogart) in "The Maltese Falcon"?

"and seeing Montana's green heights"
- Montana state tree = Ponderosa Pine?
- a tall, thin structure?


As far as digging below field level ...
What if the field included a ramp (Stack Attack), and the upper level involved digging down? Or perhaps you have to climb a ramp, traverse a pit full of noodles, to get to another place?


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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

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I don't think garden hose would be be easy to manipulate, and it would be a strange game piece. (not that strange is bad)
Are the bigger/wider hoses easily/cheaply available? Fire hoses are bigger but they dont hold the traditional round+hollow macaroni or hose shape unless they are filled with water.
I still like the idea of PVC elbows or footballs.
How about six foot lengths of 2 inch PVC pipe?
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Or perhaps you have to climb a ramp, traverse a pit full of noodles, to get to another place?
I love this idea! Couple it with my idea that the field will look like the Notre Dame Cathedral. Teams score balls in a tall structure like 2000. Except loose the ramp and hanging bar and add a ramp structure filled with pool noodles.
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

i am still leaning towards footbals. they are the only shape that hasnt been used yet that i know of.
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

Just a quick thought that I haven't seen here yet.

"Tangling" is another word for "fighting with". Is FIRST simply saying that we'll have a difficult time with this year's game pieces (again)?
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

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i am still leaning towards footbals. they are the only shape that hasnt been used yet that i know of.
There are plenty of shapes that haven't been used as of current.

Exhibit A: Jacks
Exhibit B: Spirals
Exhibit C: Hearts
Exhibit D: Stars
Exhibit E: Cones

You get the point.

I personally want to see either Jacks, Spirals, or Cones used in a future game(s) to spice things up and lead away from the normal in the box thinking of using the shapes from the FIRST logo.
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

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There are plenty of shapes that haven't been used as of current.

Exhibit A: Jacks
Exhibit B: Spirals
Exhibit C: Hearts
Exhibit D: Stars
Exhibit E: Cones
You forgot moons, clovers, horseshoes, pots of gold, rainbows and red balloons!
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You forgot moons, clovers, horseshoes, pots of gold, rainbows and red balloons!
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

If you take one of the pool noodles with the hole, insert a 1/2 in PVC pipe and wrap the whole deal in Duct tape you have a bauffer()
these are used as weapons in youth combat() in the SCA they are nearly ind3estructible and cheap to make, they are still somewhat flexible but stiff like dried spaghetti and the hint seems to me as though it is strongly hinting about pool noodles.

also the hint states:
"a game piece obsessed with a shovel's show
and seeing Montana's green heights"

it makes it sound as though the piece is obsessed with the shovels show and montana's green heights this could mean the the 5 bots will be the game peices, perhaps small and green seeking, or you have to retreive something that is up high and green and depsosit it in the little 'bot.
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

hmmmmmm . . . horseshoes.
readily available and nearly indestructable.
too bad there is nothing about them in the hint.
or is there?

edit: do they ride horses a lot in the mountains of Montana?

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hmmmmmm . . . horseshoes.
readily available and nearly indestructable.
too bad there is nothing about them in the hint.
or is there?

edit: do they ride horses a lot in the mountains of Montana?
I would lean away from real metal horseshoes, and more toward scaled up horseshoes. Redneck Style!

http://www.lilligren.com/Redneck/redneck_horseshoes.htm
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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

Double post again <sorry> ,but this one is way too hard to pass up.

Here's one for all you conspiracy theorists:
Lavery mentioned Tammy Trimble - A Google search on Trimble finds:
http://www.trimble.com/

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Trimble is a leading innovator of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology.
Still think indoor GPS is out of the question?

w0w. If that isn't supposed to be a link, then I don't know what the odds are for the coincidence.
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I would lean away from real metal horseshoes, and more toward scaled up horseshoes. Redneck Style!

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