2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

[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.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

While it may or may not be multiple colors, this game will be highly dependent on some type of dynamic feedback control.

The great TomNack has spoken.

[Mike Starke]

I think there is way too little information to determine anything. This thread has turned into what we want to see in this year's game, rather than what we really think the game is. Let's all be patient, and either wait for another clue, or wait until kickoff.

[Tapoore]

Try changing the URL of the clue link. Change the "?id=3720" part to another number.