2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

[Andy Grady]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

I've also been thinking about dlavery's "LMAO" user title.. so I looked around. There is a card game called MAO that looks interesting to think about. 5 seconds per turn, sometimes 5 cards dealt, "point of order.." A game with no rules, basically.. I guess FIRST probably wouldn't do that?

Mao does have rules...I have been taught them from old members of team 237. You just aren't told what they are. I might be able to start up a game at kickoff or at the CT Regional this year if anyone is interested.

As for the game hint...usually, when FIRST posts hints, the meaning isn't THAT hidden. My guess...all you are looking at is a screen shot of Dave's animation. A blue inner tube scored in a goal that has a diamond plate bottom with the point value of said goal painted right inside of it. (i.e. 2004 when point values were painted right on the balls).

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by Andy Grady

Mao does have rules...I have been taught them from old members of team 237. You just aren't told what they are. I might be able to start up a game at kickoff or at the CT Regional this year if anyone is interested.

As for the game hint...usually, when FIRST posts hints, the meaning isn't THAT hidden. My guess...all you are looking at is a screen shot of Dave's animation. A blue inner tube scored in a goal that has a diamond plate bottom with the point value of said goal painted right inside of it. (i.e. 2004 when point values were painted right on the balls).

Last year's clue was pretty darn smothering of the real meaning.. but you are certainly correct.. someone may have already figured out what this "5" means..

[DonRotolo]

Eh, for my 2 cents, I go with the innertube thing mentioned about 10 pages back. We have to put plastic cylinders (there's a photo posted somewhere of Dave holding one) into these recepticales made of torii (is that the plural of torus?) that have diamond plate in the middle - and there are five such goals.

Yes, this is my first and last post in this thread.

Don

[JaneYoung]

How did this thread grow so fast?

[Tetraman]

Originally Posted by Jane

How did this thread grow so fast?

cause the hint isn't what we want.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Jane

How did this thread grow so fast?

Originally Posted by Tetraman

cause the hint isn't what we want.

Correct. What we want is wild, baseless speculation. The more improbable, the better! What else do we have to talk about?

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by Richard

Correct. What we want is wild, baseless speculation. The more improbable, the better! What else do we have to talk about?

What do you get from the "5"?

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

What do you get from the "5"?

Rings.

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by Richard

Rings.

Like that (--^) type of thing?

Interesting..

Given past indicators, all you innertube guessers may be right.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Like that (--^) type of thing?

Interesting..

Given past indicators, all you innertube guessers may be right.

Yes, but the ring-posts are robot features defined by a special rule, and rings may be placed on the robot only in ways defined by other special rules. Ring points are multiplied by a factor determined by the level on a special field structure, resembling a stair-stepped pyramid, to which that robot can climb at the end of the match. Higher levels will accomodate fewer robots and give larger ring-point multipliers. The highest level holds only one robot, and its multiplier is five.

[Simon Strauss]

Id like to point out that it may be significant that the five is infront or ontop or the diamond plate depending on your perception, which in FIRST is synonamous with the wall seperating the drivers and bots. This may mean that the drivers will be either on the field or elivated, an interesting idea that might be difficult to do safely.

[adlai]

Diamonds typically crystallize in the face-centered cubic crystal system and consist of tetrahedrally bonded carbon atoms.

Boxes and Tetras!

[capnrmorgan]

I think it is like five spots on a die. I believe there will be 5 circular platforms, 4 corners and one middle that you will have to end at (poss. bonus for middle) with one robot that is odd man out. Could be scoring positions 5 goals in a 5 dot die pattern. Or giant fuzzy dice for the game piece. (It would fit the triangle, circle, square theory. Just more to think about.)

[Jimmy Cao]

I think there'll be 5 robots, all competing over 1 objective, with no alliances.

My reasoning: There is a big 5 in the picture (duh), and that is written over a large metallic plate. That plate, in my mind, represents this "objective". I think this objective has something to do with climbing something.

Just my 2 cents.

It'll be fun, no matter what the game ends up being ^.^

[Eldarion]

I am personally going to reserve judgement until tomorrow.

The first thing this reminded me of was those old black and white countdowns to the start of a show. The countdown always started at "5"...