Red Herring + Google = Dave Lavery

[Bongle]

Originally Posted by Beth Sweet

Pasta referred to the pool "noodles" that we had to use as bumpers

Ah, that makes sense.

And it reinforces my point. During the 2006 game hint discussion, if someone said "hey guys maybe the pasta means that we'll have to make bumpers in this specific fashion using this particular material that resembles pasta", it would have seemed WAY off-base. The amount of indirection that it takes to come up with that makes almost any answer valid, which makes it a red herring. Since it is difficult to determine which phrase is a red herring and which isn't, the clue isn't particularely useful, except as something fun to guess at. Very few teams would have been convinced enough to start ordering parts for a ball-shooting robot based on the hint.

M. Krass figured out "Shovel's Show", Corey Balint guessed shooting.

But that means very little, since practically no matter what the game eventually was, there probably would have been someone that guessed a logical game from the hint. What if one robot had to stand on a weighted zone to enable scoring while the other 5 had to shove pool noodles or something similar into high-mounted slots in the playing field? That would also be a logical guess, but it turns out it was shooting balls instead. If the game came out, you could say "bongle guessed shoving pool noodles".

Actually, that'd be a really cool game that has got me all excited.

There are weight-sensing platforms for both teams. Only one may be activated at any time. While a team's platform is activated, scoring is doubled for that team. A team may only sit on their platform for maximum 30 seconds, and may not activate their platform twice in a row (the other team must activate theirs first). Platforms are placed so that scoring from them is possible, but very difficult so that it takes a real engineering effort to be able to. Scoring is basically anything, but I think the platform mechanic would be a cool kind of tradeoff: double your scoring, but play as a 2-robot alliance while that is going on.

Edit: Reading the 2006 game hint thread is REAL fun. There are people that are tantalizingly close in some respects, but very far off in others.
Here's the thread: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...light=M.+Krass
Remember not to post in it, it IS a year old.