2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by cgredalertcc

Could this clue possibly hint to five robots on the blue alliance? Just a theory

5 vs how many though?

We better not be making a return of X vs 0 like in 2001.

Worst game to understand and play ever.

[cgredalertcc]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

5 vs how many though?

We better not be making a return of X vs 0 like in 2001.

Worst game to understand and play ever.

well its possible it could be a 5 0n 1 but that seems a little unreasonable to me. Maybe they added two teams and its a 5 on 3? Like I said before its a theory.
There is however one problem the grief caused by the slant of a game setup towards one alliance. I don't think that the officials would want to deal with it.

There has also been a recently recorded trend of the game pieces where they follow the pattern of the first logo: triangle=tetra, ball=circle, square= ?

there are a few things we do know. one the playing field is going to be about the same size due to venue. Chances are the floor is going to be carpeted aside from ramps and such thr floor will also probably be relatively flat. Raising the playing field would be extremely hard based on the materials costs.

Also does anyone know if the fish picture was a real clue or not if so I have some additonal theories about that.

[robbekid]

I am surprised no one mentioned this or i missed it in the 15 page madness...

that 5 looks like something on the side of a racecar.....

[cgredalertcc]

Originally Posted by robbekid

I am surprised no one mentioned this or i missed it in the 15 page madness...

that 5 looks like something on the side of a racecar.....

You have a point there that brings a totally new aspect. A speed challenge. The only problem I see is that it looks like a run of the mill presentation background. Still it is a possibility

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by robbekid

I am surprised no one mentioned this or i missed it in the 15 page madness...

that 5 looks like something on the side of a racecar.....

Someone did mention a 5K in connection with the clue a few pages back...eek, I don't quite want to think about that.

[Mike Hvorecny]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schuetze

What no Rock n Roll lyrics to decipher or wondering metafors in the clue, just a number on a simple background

I've got nothing

Okay, here we go. You have to drive you robot up a Stairway to Heaven, and slide back down on a manhole cover all within 5 minutes. how does that sound?

[Tottanka]

As a metter of fact, our last year's regional organizer said that he has heared that this year's competition will include stairs-climbing robots..
=]

[raymaniac]

Originally Posted by Tottanka

As a metter of fact, our last year's regional organizer said that he has heared that this year's competition will include stairs-climbing robots..
=]

Are they going to climb 5 kilometers of stairs?

[Tottanka]

=]
i think not, and if in a more cercastic way ill take it seriously, i actually think that there is no 5k stairs anywhere in Israel =]

and now serioulsy..
one of my team members has seen a smiling face and a lock above it in the hint's right side, refer to it as you wish' i ofound no head, and even if i did, i cant see what it gives us..
On the other hand' this Diamon plate might also looks like a number "5" pool ball, wich is a yellow ball..hm, yellow, like a bannana... and - pool' hm like a pool with WATER...

it might also be a Golf ball, adn you gt 5 shots to put it in the hole or something, i dont know =\

[raymaniac]

Originally Posted by Tottanka

=]
i actually think that there is no 5k stairs anywhere in Israel =]

Of course there is...

[LightWaves1636]

Okay my sister came up with paranoid ideas. or weird or whatever. I printed out the picture and my sister looked at it upside down, she said "hey it's a 'g'". That's about it from her, I would go on but her guess is a bit out there. My guess for the blue background, maybe instead of carpet there'll be new terrain. My co-captain's been making the this guess for the past three years,"my guess would be some terrain", probaly because he loves 4-wheeling though. My sister says maybe there are five golden rings that to retrieved in water with islands made of diamond plate. another team member took a guess at maybe there are a seris of objectives we have to complete before time runs out(he was looking at the lego league pictures). That last guess one of us have is, it's only the first clue because of when I saved the picture, the files name was '2007Clue1'.

[cgdtgurl07]

maybe they'll have 5 individual platforms for the robots to go on instead of one one big one on each end like past years.

[Tri_Lam]

anyone else see the audience in the background of the pic???

[Faith]

Maybe the banana should be taken more literally

I like the rings, and the field like a five of diamonds card

...with a platform in the center instead, and the diamond's are towers.

Then in four places (similarly placed to the diamond's but closer to the center) are four banana shaped towers with rings on the stem.

The goal is to get the rings off the bananas onto the diamond's, or get rings from your hp and do the same. Then end up on the platform in the middle.

Now the bananas are incorporated, the diamond plate and the five are explained, and so are the rings around the diamond plate

On the other hand, maybe the human players need to run on a treadmill while the robots go. In that case, I volunteer to be human player

[JaneYoung]

I just read (re-read in parts) all 38 pages.
There's some good stuff:
puns, jokes, ideas, poetry - neato...

I did not see this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Plate_%28Mars%29

In a lot of the thread, esp. the first 15 pages, there are references to levels and baseball suggestions like home plate.

I thought this interesting anyway.