2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

[1359th Scalawag]

For the 2006 game season, the only place I saw that kind of steel was for the ramps. What if for this game, there were 5 ramps and instead of only scoring for being on the ramps at the end, they would have periods in the game and at the end of the periods you could get points for being on one of the 5 ramps? Kinda like musical chairs...

They didn't give us much to think about with just a "5" but we could still create our own game with all these ideas! I wonder if First watches these to get ideas for next game season...

[Tetraman]

You know...I bet the 5 is the amount of points you recieve if you put that blue ring on it.

[Aidan F. Browne]

It seems to me that it could be a big plunger button that you have to drive into to activate. Like maybe to release game pieces.

Or, if its a 5-robot free-for-all game, it could be that in autonomous there are five of these numbered buttons along the side of the field with different colored lights as below (RL, GL, BL = Red, Green, Blue light & Tx = Target x)

[RL] (T1) [RL] (T2) [GL] (T3) [GL] (T4) [BL] (T5) [BL]

At the start of the match the field computer randomly downloads a number to each of the robots 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. If you can drive into your button during autonomous you get a big bonus. Or get your game pieces early.

Or maybe there is one of these at each end. During the match if you can get to and drive into your opponents "5" button, then you disable them for 5 seconds or take 5 seconds off of their time, or earn 5 points, or take away 5 points... *sigh*... so many possibilities....

I'm gonna stop throwing out these silly guesses now so Dave can stop laughing at me.

[KelliV]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

It's quite obvious: this picture is a screenshot from a video.

If you keep it as a screen shot then the file name of 2007clue1 would make sense. In a editing program like AVID XPRESS PRO (which I use at school and is similar to Final Cut Pro which I think is the program the almighty Dave Lavery uses) you create new timelines each time you sign in (to keep track of edits/show progress etc.). These timelines use the original timeline name and add another number unless a new name is specified. In example if the name was "robots" the next time you edit it will be saved as "robots1".
This does the same thing if you take a screenshot from the timeline. So... I wouldn't get your hopes up for more still clues, but a short animation, but then again I haven't slept in around 5 days so I am a little spacey.

[TeknicllyInsane]

Here's an interesting theory about the game.
If you look at the past two games, we see that last year's game involved a ball, and the year before used triangles. This can be connected to the FIRST logo, which is a triangle, a circle, and a square.
If we follow the pattern, the game would logically involve some sort of box.
this box may somehow represent a goal of some sort, possibly pentagonal.(this would explain the 5 and the diamond)
I believe that the blue background is not water, which is a common belief, but either a light effect to throw us off, or simply the background of the Demo Video. (it has been suggested that the clue is a still-shot of the Demo for this year).

these are just a couple suggestions, not that I expect any to be true.
(i'm the one who thought that last year's game would require digging, due to it's reference to a "shovel's show" )

P.S: these views are not expressly mine, yet a collaborative work of my peers at Birds Of Prey.

[Eldarion]

Originally Posted by EricH

I'm going to say that this is from the animation (as has been said already.) However, I'm also going to say this one thing....

TRIPLE REPLAY!!!

I wish!!!!

[clean399]

I really don't think this is the real clue i think they are counting down until the real one. I have been messing with this one and I got what seemed to be a goal or the right side of the picture maybe we are looking down on that goal and it is telling us a point value or refering to an object with the same number that goes into it. Just a thought.

[TeknicllyInsane]

Originally Posted by clean399

I really don't think this is the real clue i think they are counting down until the real one. I have been messing with this one and I got what seemed to be a goal or the right side of the picture maybe we are looking down on that goal and it is telling us a point value or refering to an object with the same number that goes into it. Just a thought.

You know, I've heard that theory alot, and I was wondering a couple things.

1. have they ever given us a countdown before?

2. why do they label this as the clue on the official website? I mean, if it were a countdown, wouldn't the organization be misleading us, going against gracious professionalism?

[Tetraman]

So far...even with the hint...this is what the field looks like so far:

[clean399]

Originally Posted by TeknicllyInsane

You know, I've heard that theory alot, and I was wondering a couple things.

1. have they ever given us a countdown before?

2. why do they label this as the clue on the official website? I mean, if it were a countdown, wouldn't the organization be misleading us, going against gracious professionalism?

Isn't it kind of against gracious professionalism giving us a clue anyway I mean look at how much work we are putting into this when we don't really get anything and won't know anything until kickoff I think they are just trying to get us into the mood of thinking about stuff that you would not think of if you saw this say if you were at work if it was in your text book.

[TeknicllyInsane]

You know clean, you're right about that. The point of the clue is to get us thinking outside the box in order to solve a rather simple problem. It also gets us hyped up for competition times, amping us up for the big-league atmosphere.

[ChazA]

mabye the blue is water!

[TeknicllyInsane]

Originally Posted by gnorts1

mabye the blue is water!

that has in fact been suggested, but thinking realistically, I don't think that technology is even advanced enough where we can get waterproof parts for really cheap.
I think that an underwater game would be extremely fun, but it's highly unrealistic.

[Peter Matteson]

Since no one has gone too far down the Party of 5 line of reasoning yet:

5 = Party of 5
Neve Cambell was in party of 5
Cambell as in Cambell's Soup
A round aluminum disc = soup can lid
What this means is the plate we see is a lid we have to place on something.

Or I could diverge from that with:
Cambell's soup
Andy Warhol had a famous painting of Cambell's soup cans.
He had a similar painting of Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe sang diamonds are a girls best friend in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
Blonde means Platinum Blonde
Platinum is used in catalysts for Fuel Cells
Therefore we are using fuelcell robots.

This only my 5th season and can go on with these for hours now.
What have you done to me Chiefdelphi?
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

[Rich Kressly]

Dave talks about five here:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...02&postcount=9