2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

[Dancin103]

Here, here is a thought...I don't know if anyone has already said this but here is something to help the thought process...for the last few years the pattern has been 2 years of an original game and then a game that includes things from previous years and then it starts all over again. So I can see what everyone has been saying with the 1999 game that included floppy disks and a movable platfom puck that you had to get up onto.

[Mister_Juggles]

hmm, I've done my fair share of speculation, but most of what I've thought of has already been said. There is one thing, however, that I haven't seen mentioned: there is no red in the picture. So...(it sounds farfetched, but notsomuch as some of these ideas ) perhaps it *is* a 5-team game....but there is only one team. Maybe it's 5 bots doing something to score points in a certain time period, but it isn't team vs. team, but everyone work together on the same team (which does sound more FIRSTy to me). If they did this, the tourney-style finals would have to be different, and I think it would have to be a higher scoring game in order to prevent 4 different finals matches having the same score of 62 or something.

[Not2B]

5 pads for robots.

Your robot doesn't leave the pad. As in, no wheels.

Maybe you get to use a teather bot, but otherwise it's big arm robots with stationary platforms.

BEST has done it before... and it would be different.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Not2B

5 pads for robots.

Your robot doesn't leave the pad. As in, no wheels. ...

This would force us to think about arms and manipulators, instead of drivetrains. If I was on the GDC and wanted to move FRC further in the direction of robotics (and away from RC cart design), this is one idea I might try.

[JennGriffin]

Hmm...the robots not moving around. Sounds interesting, but would it be interesting to watch? The robotic arms would have to have a long reach to reach across the playing field. We will all know soo enough.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by robotics1739

Hmm...the robots not moving around. Sounds interesting, but would it be interesting to watch? The robotic arms would have to have a long reach to reach across the playing field. We will all know soo enough.

Suppose each robot could only reach halfway across, to hand a gamepiece to an alliance partner? Hand-off required for scoring ...

[june_2008]

Connecticut was the fifth state to ratify the Constitution.

[Nawaid Ladak]

well, here we go.....

you get FIVE cards in a hand of standard poker

FIVE cards are placed on the table when you play Texas Holdem

the Dimand plate loks like a poker chip

FIVE of dimands

thats just one idea

my next idea

the clue was released on the 21st. FIVE days till the end of christmas (FIVE golden rings)

there are FIVE rings for the olympic rings

Has anyone seen the ebay ad on tv with the dimand ring going through the pipes and stuff. thats what i just got to thinking.

next idea.....

football+Hockey

(the dimand plate, with a PUCK)

Feild goal posts with difffrent rings and balls. thats my idea

i'll post a link to a video of what i think the game peice could be.
back tommorrrow

[thefro526]

Three Words: Giant Metal Stuctures

I belive that the diamond plate may refer to a large metal stucture only large enough for 5 robots or gamepieces.

[AntiSleep]

This is Team 1444s Christmas gift to everyone out there.
OK, so I've done some intense thinking and I believe this theory fits most of the aspects of the clue.

So the background is blue - like the Oceans of Earth - the oceans drive weather all around the world by affecting temperatures and pressures of landmasses near them. Now, diamonds - as in the diamond plate - are also created under the influence of temperature and pressure. Now say you took 5 bananas, like the one seen in the background of the image. Bananas contain carbon, so if you placed them under intense pressure and heat, you would have five artificial diamonds. This takes an impressive pressure of about 8.3 GigaPascals, (reference ) which is about 0.05 giga-torr. Artificial diamonds vary in clarity based on impurities in the substance that was used to make them. 5 bananas would probably produce a very cloudy and foggy diamond. This would look remarkably like the ice on a hockey rink. A hockey rink is also rounded with flat sides, much like the rounded diamond plate would be if a pressure of about 5000 PSI was exerted on either side. I've also seen that the "5" appears to be in Arial font. System of a Down (reference) has written a song called Aerials. The first portion of this song is 3 mins and 50 seconds long - perhaps representing the round time. There is then a Hidden track at 3:57 entitled Arto, named after a musician. Perhaps, the robot will have to use tone recognition this year instead of vision from last year. The 5 is also bold. BOLD appears to be an acronym for Barcode of Life Data-Systems (reference). This group appears to deal with the organization and cataloging of the different species on earth based on DNA. Perhaps this means there will be 5 pucks that need to be shot into goals in some specific order.


Now that the game is out good luck with your designs! Happy New Year and you can thank us by bringing some good competition.

[Gabe]

What if the game pieces were polished aluminum that would reflect colored lighting to throw off everyone's light sensors, hmm?

Edit: It's 5:02 a.m. there is nobody on CD. Happy New Year!

[rocketdawg3000]

Don't forget...the cylindrical diamond plate could represent a 0 as in 50

[MarsBOtkid]

It looks like a clear blue ball with a diamond plate with number 5. It really looks like a ball if you look close enough

[MarsBOtkid]

Do you all remember the hint at Nationals last year Green, yellow, blue, red LEDs.. the guy said be prepared for the future.

[geeknerd99]

Basketball is played with 5 players on each side, isn't it?

(Not that it's gonna be 5vs5 this year. That's just not gonna happen)

5's gotta either stand for: something to with goals, some sort of time interval, or simply a reference to a backbot.

What if instead of a true water game, they make a "water game"? There's sections of "water" that give you a penalty when you drive into it? No, that sounds too much like FLL. FRC games seem to be very abstract, instead of real-world based.

I like the idea of a central diamond plate platform. Triple Play was kinda boring with the lack of elevation and Aim High only had ramps on the ends. But we could get 14 ft/s across the field though both years. Perhaps we can catch some big air with a ramp in the center.