2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

[CE Mexican]

Hey guys its me again, I was screwing around with the clue in photo shop, and this is what I came up with. To the right of the plate there is something that looks like a face, with what to me looks like a set of pit crew head phones on. My father then looked at the pic and said that the plate almost looks like a number plate from a racing vehicle.

[Chief Samwize]

WIth all these different game ideas the one that appeals to me the most is the hockey game. Imagine 6 robots chasing around a circular object on a slipery surface. there could even be five "pucks". I would love a game like that.

"and team (insert team number here) passes to its team mate team (insert another team number here), one times it, scores!!!

[Brandon Holley]

I Honestly think that the blue background was intended to be nothing but a blue background and i think dave is having some fun with us by putting these little things in there ie: the banana and traffic light.....kudos dave!

[Kyle A]

I give up reading through all of these. Every time i get back on, there are more and more pages of stuff. I can wait the 14 days to find out what the game is going to be. I have seen some good ideas though. Maybe in the next two weeks I'll have enough free time to read all the post.

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by MORT~11

I Honestly think that the blue background was intended to be nothing but a blue background and i think dave is having some fun with us by putting these little things in there ie: the banana and traffic light.....kudos dave!

I disagree, I think there may be things hidden in that background.. 5 things?

You may be right, though.. we'll find out in a couple weeks!

[Atomika]

Originally Posted by MORT~11

I Honestly think that the blue background was intended to be nothing but a blue background and i think dave is having some fun with us by putting these little things in there ie: the banana and traffic light.....kudos dave!

I agree. The blue background is probably just to make people talk about the probability that there will be a water game.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a bunch of random blue swirls.

[Greg Marra]

I doubt that the blue background is just pure chance.

I think FIRST is changing the alliance colors to prevent things like the Red Advantage we have seen in the past. I think the two colors this year will be Blue, and "clear-plastic-blue". That way, neither side gets an advantage.

[Spark Hawk]

You know, I was thinking about the whole "squish meets squash, rise and wash" quote, when I had a thought. "Squish meets squash" makes me think of two things colliding, and "rise and wash" makes me think of said things recoiling from the impact, and possibly getting splashed. When I put those together, I got... BUMPER BOATS! Now that could be interesting, but I'm not sure how it would play as a FIRST game, but still, it could be fun...

Originally Posted by Spark Hawk

You know, I was thinking about the whole "squish meets squash, rise and wash" quote, when I had a thought. "Squish meets squash" makes me think of two things colliding, and "rise and wash" makes me think of said things recoiling from the impact, and possibly getting splashed. When I put those together, I got... BUMPER BOATS! Now that could be interesting, but I'm not sure how it would play as a FIRST game, but still, it could be fun...

Can anyone tell me for sure where the whole 'squish meets squash' quote originated, because I'm having some trouble finding information to back it up...
If it has any merit, I think I might have found something possibly (emphasis on the possibly) relevent. On the TV show Numb3rs (which I've never seen) they used something called a squish-squash algorithm which makes me very scared, lest the same concept be used in the game...

In the 2005 May 6 episode, "Noisy Edge," lots of folks in Los Angeles see a glowing-white aircraft that doesn't appear on any of seven military or civilian radar tracking systems. Charlie analyses the recorded radar returns with a "squish/squash" noise-reduction algorithm that not only tracks the aircraft their systems could not see but forms a photographic image of the aircraft clear enough [3] to identify who designed it. This is not some outside-the-box mathematical insight: These radar systems are designed by smart electrical engineers for the sole purpose of resolving locations of aircraft, with the best noise-reduction, image-resolving power their smartest engineers can muster. So any squishing and squashing that can see more airplanes would already be built into these sophisticated detection systems.

-Adam N. Rosenberg on his website
Here's the link to the page where the quote came from: http://the-adam.dyndns.org:2069/adam/numb3rs/two.htm

[Kyle]

I can really tell that this game clue is driving everyone here crazy because 1 year ago today there less then 600 posts in the 2006 Game hint thread and as of right now there are over 720 in this one.

[Josh Goodman]

What I think is hilarious is people don't decide to read the posts before they post, so we're right back at the beginning! YEAY!!!

[Kyle]

Maybe there is 5 human players this year that have to stand on diamond plated sensors, I don't know why that would be true or for what type of game but I can't wait to find out.

[Don Wright]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlgiritpmfo

I predict we'll be seeing the GDC wearing powder blue tuxedos and singing this song at kickoff.

Anybody see the four different colored lights in the background of the video?

[nuggetsyl]

5 stands for the number of places a team can score.

[Atomika]

Originally Posted by Don Wright

Anybody see the four different colored lights in the background of the video?

I did, although it might just be irrelevant.