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Re: 2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast
We already know that water isn't safe for robots, especially since incidents during gameplay are unpredictable and it's considerably more difficult to design a water-safe robot.
With all the past discussion of the water game idea, I think the clue was intentionally made to hint at water because they knew we'd try to interpret it that way. It was inevitable that the clue would falsely hint at a water game.
On a related thought, this is another possibility for the game:
There will be five diamond plate cylindrical boxes, set up in two antiparallel lines from smallest to largest for each alliance, with the lines in a lengthwise orientation on either side of the field. Five zones separate the cans in pairs. Four tori are placed on the edges of the middle zone. Robots must pick up the small cans and transfer the contents of the can from one can to another and through the tori in order to put the contents into a funnel on each end of the field.
The smallest cans are filled with...jello powder! The funnels attach to pipes that lead to tanks of water (hence the water clues) and the field automatically prepares the jello for the award winners.
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