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Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

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it could possibly be a count down. 5 days till 2007Clue2.jpeg
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I bet in 3 day game hint 2 will come and it will be the # 4

15 /5 =3 ???

how did you get five days
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Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

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Over 200 posts based on a mere scrap of information.

"A man's life in these these parts often depends on a mere scrap of information." -- Clint Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars

No wonder Dave has updated his team role to LMAO.
Ahem..
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LMAO....
with only 4 periods.
But then keeps dropping the last period at the end of the posts lately.

1 Autonomous period, 1 Red period, 1 Blue period, 1 Both perioid, 1 Autonomous period at the end.

BAM!! You have your long awaited Autonomous at the end of the match request.

Talk about an exciting finish. (or maybe it's a pipe dream.)
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Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

Well, after wading through 14 pages of information wasteland, I found two, maybe three, legitimate bits of information.

1. The picture is a frame from a video. No EXIF, compressed, etc. (ArtDutra04)


2. The blue ring on the outside has gloss indicative of a torus. (Greg Needel)


3. There is an operator station on the far right of the image.
(No idea. somewhere towards the end of 14 pages of boredom)



Ahh, time for assumptions!

The blue thingy, number, etc. is most likely a splash screen/transition for Dave's video. Meaning, that the five has much more to do with how the game, or maybe just Dave's video is organized. Five consecutive periods, five ways to score, five important points, whatever.

If the blue thing is in fact a torus, it would make sense that Dave would incorporate it into his animation, including his transitions. Torus may show up somewhere.


The operator station in the far right of the image supports the assumption that this is simply a transition shot- a transparent torus flies over the screen, that's pointing towards the field, allowing for a position, focus, or time change.



No game can be remotely investigated through the game hints, so I won't try. But I am disappointed that there isn't a riddle...

EDIT- Ironic... This is my 1,000 post!
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Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

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Anyone else notice that Dave hasn't posted anything in this thread?

He can't. He's paralyzed by laughter.
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Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

Stuff from Wikipedia I found curiously interesting about 5:

In chess, the fewest number of moves a pawn makes to a queening square.

The smallest Euro banknote. It shows an antique bridge.

The word "punch" comes from the Hindustani for five.

International Maritime Signal flag for 5

I think that right there gives me a darn good idea of what the playing field might look like. Perhaps at the center will be a diamond plated circle for [insert scoring objective here]

Otherwise, there are no words to this hint curiously as well. Just a number. I'm suspecting it will be the same bot system as last year, 6 on field, etc. etc.

But that flag, and how the clue presents itself as a signal like the flag is what seems worth investigating.



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edit: another curiosity: if one takes a quick glance (not at all paying much attention, no analysis) at the picture would they get a first impression that its the number 5 on a golf ball instead of diamond plate???

edit2: one of team 66's former advisers first thought of a pool ball when I described the hint to her...

edit3: something tells me everyone is looking too hard into the technical details of the photo... really nothing too conclusive yet. Last year the key was a simple phrase and linking it to the correct answer (shovel's show = "just shoot me") yet everyone took the first few thoughts, which turned out to be wayyyyy off, and did practically an essay on it. When I look at this year's game hint I think of what possible game elements have we seen in previous years, how consistent have the past years been, etc. etc. realistically speaking.

Our goal is to make Dave Lavery tremble with fear that the secret has been leaked. Otherwise he will just die laughing on the floor. Keep him alive and keep him wondering if he really made too easy of a hint.
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Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

I really like the inner tube idea, because it does look a lot like it.

Also, wanted to point out, if it is a manhole cover, Neenah Foundry in Neenah, Wisconsin is the largest producer of manhole covers. Try doing some research on them lol.

Honestly, that probably has nothing to do with it, just thought I would post my overly geeky knowledge...
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Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

If the picture is a manhole cover, than maybe the playing field will have two levels, one will be some thing like a street or sidewalk, and the other will be something like a sewer system, and the only way to get between the levels is through one of five manholes.
There could be five levels, but that is a lot less likely.
As for what the actual game will be, I don't know. It would be fun to do a sort of paintball or lasertag thing with a field like that.
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Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

The musical note G is 5 notes away from Middle C. G begins Greg Needel. So this year's game piece must be Greg, especially after he gave the "official clue" out
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Re: The REAL Game Hint

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You guys are quick.

The time stamp on the email I got directly from FIRST was 9:50:03.

The other CD posting time stamp was 9:46.

How'd THAT happen??
Someone read and answered their email.
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Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

Greg was actually paid off by the GDC to "leak" his "official" hint. Thats where the real clue is! Maybe we should start over-scrutinizing everything he says.....
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Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

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Can you spell "OCR"?
Wait, Optical character recognition? or did you mean the Office for civil rights? Or was it OverClocked Remix?

In any case, I think that this is most definately from an animation, but don't you guys think Dave would have done a better job on rendering the diamond plate if it were his finished game animation?
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Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

this look like a leader/countdown http://video.google.com/videosearch?...ith+countdown+

Que the final countdown
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Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

Maybe a 5 bot free-for-all???...with flying manhole covers...lol...guess we are going to have to wait anf find out
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Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

going off of last years use of an obscure and contrived pop culture reference (david spade) i think we should apply that to this clue. so lets start with the diamond plateing. here is 3 probable options:

*Swedish pop star Amy Diamond released a CD in May of '05 (5-05) and track number 5 is called "one of the ones". implys to me that there will be a type of gamepeice that there is only one of durring each match.

*Micheal Diamond born in 1965 is a member of the band Beastie Boys who recently released a cd titled "To the 5 Boroughs" the boroughs refer to the NY boroughs leading me to believe that the game will have 5 distinct areas

*Dustin Diamond is better known as Screech from Saved by the Bell. in part of the series he has a robot named Kevin (5 letters). Kevin was a more humanoid robot than has been commonly seen at FIRST competitions, so this year the robot will have to meet certain requirements to look humanoid.

But maybe im wrong about the pop cluture references, and maybe there is something to this whole water deal. in the royal british navy "HMS Diamond" was the name given to a 5th rate ship and had 32 guns. the game must consist of a total of 32 points that the alliences fight over.
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The most destructive of all storms on the planet are F5 tornadoes and Category-5 hurricanes.

And you thought last year's game was brutal...
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