2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

[AndyB]

What is a diamond? It's a rhombus. Where did the word rhombus come from?

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

The origin of the word rhombus is from the Greek word for something that spins. Euclid uses the word ρομβος; and in his translation Heath says it is apparently drawn from the Greek word ρεμβω, to turn round and round. He also points out that Archimedes used the term solid rhombus for two right circular cones sharing a common base. For more on the origin of the word, see rhombus at the MathWords web page.

Could this mean that there are quick periods, or that the goals are in the corners such that the robots must constantly be turning around to achieve an objective?

[AndyB]

sorry to post so repetitivly, but whta if the "round and around" part means that there is a central goal in the middle that robots must navigate around due to it's size (similar to the center goal in the 05' game).

[StephLee]

I'm never sure whether I'm reading too much into a clue, or not enough...


My scattered thoughts so far:
-It would be quite hilarious if this were all the first in a series of countdown pictures like some people have mentioned. After all, the GDC has to top Greg for his prank on us recently.
-I wish sanddrag's clue was the actual clue, because I had far more ideas for it than for this.
-5 of something...I'm personally leaning towards a 5-sided platform or 5 "bases"' of sorts. Maybe the last bit of the match is autonomous and you have to find your way to the bases autonomously, from wherever you are on the field. Each robot could be assigned a certain color before the match, and they have to go to the base that displays their color.
-NO WATER! Please...*twitch*

[AndyB]

Well, if we have determined the it is from the countdown video, might we consider the song: "The Final Countdown" by Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Countdown_(song)

Europe has 5 members.

[dubious elise]

Dear Mr. Lavery,

Congratulations. For the fourth year running (at least, in my case - I am sure that others have a few more years to add on to my tally), you have successfully ruined my Christmas holiday with your untimely release of a most obfuscating, but no less tantalizing, hint.

As I have not yet been able to find a banana in the image (which I am sure is lurking somewhere) nor have I had the time to count the individual treads on the diamond plate in the hopes of revealing some magical number, I shall field no further comments other than to say that I eagerly await a true 3v2 game.

Sincerely,

Elise

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by dubious elise

As I have not yet been able to find a banana in the image (which I am sure is lurking somewhere)

Look in the lower right corner area of the picture, I am seeing a banana. Let me adjust some of the levels in the image, and edit this post once I have enhanced it.

EDIT: Here we go. There's no doubt about it. That's a banana.

[James1902]

What if there was a tall,rotating cylinder, bolted down in the middle of the field that was seperated into five different segments that could either raise/ lower the score of the team puting in the scoring objects. ex. one segment could raise by 1 point, the next 2, the next one take off 1 point ect ect that would make some interesting stratigies for not just scoring but for controling the rotation of the goal.

The dimand plate could represtent the material used to seperate the goal, or a ramp/ platform of somekind.

Or we could all just conceede that were never going to guess this and enjoy our holiday for once without racking our brains. But knowing us that's probably not going to happen

[Viper37]

We've all been racking our brains over here at my team, so our web designer decided to have some fun with is.

Look at the banner.. http://www.teamspyder.org/index.php

[clean399]

So i saw that someone else had said that IFI isn't selling the kit bot transmissions any more so I looked around their website and I found that they are releasing a next generation of traction wheels soon. My thought is that like last year we are going to have to climb something but this year I think it will either have less space for the robots to get on or is going to be steeper.

[Viper37]

I became an awfully big fan of ramps. They are so fun to drive up and down on!

[Jeff K.]

Originally Posted by clean399

I found that they are releasing a next generation of traction wheels soon.

We've known that for a while. IFI revised their wheels to fix some problems and make them look slicker.

Sanddrag might be onto something with the banana. haha or might just be Dave's new way to sign his masterpieces.

[Viper37]

I get it.

5 pound weight limit.

[Kamikaze]

And the real answer is, of course, a multiplayer 5-disk Towers of Hanoi puzzle...

[Athleticgirl389]

Originally Posted by wpdrummer

Or we could all just conceede that were never going to guess this and enjoy our holiday for once without racking our brains. But knowing us that's probably not going to happen

I love that idea!!!! My brain is hurting trying to get into the minds of those who comeup with the clue for us. It's probably somthing so simple as painting a 5 on diamond plate and the field is a blue color lmao.

[Tetraman]

If the banana in the five is real...that means that whatever the blue thing is, is also what the blue bot was holding in the dlavery pic.