2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

[dez250]

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[dez250]

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

My thoughts:

...the next part of this is the number 5, since this is an anniversary year for first you start at year 1992 and add 5, 1997. ...

But wasnt 1997 the 6th game, 1996 would be the 5th year, wouldn't it?

[killerofkiller]

Greg, I defiantly agree with your pic, you can see how the texture changes slightly out side of the plate. so it could be an inner tube or a wheel of some sort. also i wounder how accurate the size of the diamonds are. can anyone calculate the size of that? ( im not sure if diamonds come in different sizes on diamond plate)

[Arkorobotics]

Robots can be crazy at times, inner tubes can pop.

But the inner tube idea is not to shabby. I like the idea where it might be the amount of points you get "5", and that plate, tube, object whatever you want to call it, is an element.

[Greg Needel]

Originally Posted by killerofkiller

Greg, I defiantly agree with your pic, you can see how the texture changes slightly out side of the plate. so it could be an inner tube or a wheel of some sort. also i wounder how accurate the size of the diamonds are. can anyone calculate the size of that? ( im not sure if diamonds come in different sizes on diamond plate)

Assuming that the diamond plate is a normal tread pattern I place that piece being a circle with and aprox diameter of 22 inches.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Sometimes I find it easier to look at what something IS NOT to figure out what it is:

IS NOT:

• 5 robots on the field. There's enough of a problem with teams getting matches in now, and with all the new rookies this would make things worse.
• A reference to a prior years game. There are very few people left in FIRST who can think back that many years. Then again, there is a history section on the FIRST page

In another note, I see the same 3 colored "stop light" as I did in the bannana hint.




Does anyone else see the same?

[Billfred]

This year's game element, I'm calling it now, will have something to do with the Cheesy Poofs. Here's my evidence:

1) What's the Poofs' team number? 254.

2) Go to the Members link on CD, and sort by reputation. Who's in the fifth position on the list? Cory McBride of 254.

3) What was the predominant color of the Poofs' robot this year? Blue.

4) 254's main sponsor is NASA Ames. NASA's insignia? Mostly blue.

5) Also hailing from NASA Ames is one Mark Leon, an emcee whose relevance to this post should be painfully obvious if you've seen him in action.

6) At Cal Games this year, Mark Leon was unintentionally run over by Paly's robot going into autonomous. Where was Mark? Right in front of the blue alliance station.

I'm saying it now: There will be 254 bags of Cheesy Poofs on the field this year.

(And if you believe any of this, I've got a deal for you on a bridge in Brooklyn...)

[ZZII 527]

Just throwing it out there: the relative size of the diamonds indicates that if it is some kind of platform it may only be large enough for one robot. (But of course there may be 5 of them...musical chairs at the end for bonus points perhaps?)

[Robyn Needel]

Originally Posted by KathieK

diamond plate = baseball diamond? baseball home plate = 5 sides

You might have something here. Since all the games have some element of sports, maybe this is the year for baseball...

If this is a game element, it's obviously designed to take some punishment or it wouldn't be diamond plate. We could all be fooled by the size, it could be small and not manhole sized.

Maybe it's a multiplier? Or as others have said, 5 teams on the field? a 5th wild card team? 5 ways to score?

[ThomasP]

Originally Posted by Imprudent

maybe its just me, but I can't see any of the plate through the 5. Is it possibly just an optical illusion to those of you who can see it? Often, if you convince yourself that something is there, you will see it, despite the fact that it really isn't. As well, staring at the hint for as long as I have has proven that the picture can shift, giving it a different perception (perhaps the plate through the 5?). Im not saying those of you who do see it are wrong, im just saying that I can't see it. If you could possibly highlight where you see the plate through the 5, it would be gratly appreciated.
I was also planning on sleeping well tonight...im dead tired...but that seems to be impossible now, as I am having troubles sitting here and not yelling around the classroom for ideas

EDIT:
I see them too!

I was playing with the image in Photoshop and got this...



All I did was open the image, equalize, and brighten.

[Mike Starke]

I honestly don't think that the diamond plate has anything to do with the game. I think that the 5 and the diamond plate are from kickoff when they cylce through the sponsors, and then they finally give the countdown. So
I think that more clues are to come.... with a 4 being on the next one... maybe a riddle for the last one?

[mikemax]

hmm....im confused about all of this...but everyone here has amazing ideas...i dont know if this could help...i doubt it will but the first thing i thought of when i saw this picture..was the fantastic 4...although the number is a 5 it still looks like the fantastic 4 symbol in color shape and even the 5 is the same font as the 4 in the original fantastic 4 symbol



coinsidence? or am i just crazy?

[Dylan Gramlich]

i am saying we are doing something with round diamond plate circles which will be the scoring game piece, this one for example will be worth 5 points. u will have to probably stack them or move them around. hailing back to the game using "floppies" and possibly even stack attack. build a tough robot these things will cause some damage!

[rees2001]

Originally Posted by mikemax

coinsidence? or am i just crazy?

Just Crazy...Like the rest of us for spending all of this time looking at a image of a 5.

[Sislith]

I don't know. Looks like team colors though.