2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

[Eric Scheuing]

I think I've got it.

There will be a 5 foot high circular diamond plate platform in the middle of the field surrounded by a square pool of water. Water game!

[1086VEX]

Originally Posted by Eric Scheuing

I think I've got it.

There will be a 5 foot high circular diamond plate platform in the middle of the field surrounded by a square pool of water. Water game!

maybe its like this but with stationary robots, like some have mentioned...
it would be pretty interesting...

~Alex~

[BobC]

Originally Posted by Eric Scheuing

I think I've got it.

There will be a 5 foot high circular diamond plate platform in the middle of the field surrounded by a square pool of water. Water game!

I really don't think there is going to be any water. The arenas where these events are held would worry about a leak.

[Vincent]

uhhh....this thing working? oh well...never been here before, ok but yeah, i noticed someone said something about a history between the game clues and baseball, well i dotn nkow if anybody mentioned this yet or not(to many pages to read through) but isnt the home plate a five sided diamond?(the five and the diamond plate it rests on), just thought id put thta out there

[charlie1218]

While looking at the picture at avery magnified view, with a little refining and sharpening I see 4 things distinctly: 1) in the right side I see two wires feeding into the DP 2) I see a blue outer cricle around the DP circle, possibly 5 raised, ble platfroms? 3) a bust of a person in the upper righ corner, to me Sir Isaac Newton, Possibly gravity will play into this competition as a big thing 4) below that I see something that either looks like the face of baby, or a bald white male smiling intensley, Youth is key?. My two cents. I will dig in further tommorow with a High Def monitor.

[pogg]

In the blue background there are two groups of five smiley faces, one on the right side and the other on the left side of the DP.

[Tri_Lam]

Originally Posted by pogg

In the blue background there are two groups of five smiley faces, one on the right side and the other on the left side of the DP.

yay somone else that sees it! humm i dont c anyon the left side though the one on the right is in your face this just means the background is really an animation

[pogg]

the group on the left are along the rim of the DP. they are very mall but they are there.

[1086VEX]

i actually see 2 groups on the right, one is mid picture and the other is in the upper right. just thought i might point that out.

~Alex~

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by pogg

the group on the left are along the rim of the DP. they are very mall but they are there.

Whoah! There are people on both edges of the diamond plate! In the upper left edge of the diamond plate, and the center right edge of the diamond plate in the large image on FIRST's website.

http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedImage.../2007Clue1.jpg

Not only, are they faces, but they appear to be the faces of the crowd that have appeared in previous Havabanana productions, just stretched a little, as though they were looking at a rounded object.

EDIT: The people are in the blue at the edge locations that I mentioned before. Sorry, I was thinking faster than I could type.

In response to Joel: IDK. Recently, as when I was messing with it in photoshop last week, it was smaller. Perhaps the the GDC realized that the people were not visible in the smaller image. I know I couldn't detect them.

[Joel J]

When you said that I thought of the HAL 9000.

BTW: when did the picture get larger?

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

Not only, are they faces, but they appear to be the faces of the crowd that have appeared in previous Havabanana productions, just stretched a little, as though they were looking at a rounded object.

From our perspective, could we be looking out at the people through something, like a lens?

EDIT: are you seeing the color in the diamond plate? pinky red, speckly.

[Tottanka]

Ok..I've just done some Photoshop on the photo...
I have nitced that the "5" in the picture has the diamond pattern on it, meaning that the picture was made in a few steps:
First they made the background
Then they put a silver colored ring
Then they put the 5 on it
And onlt then, they made the daimonds...

So that actually means that the 5 and the platform have something to do with each other.... and i personnaly think that that means the 5 isnt the number of bots in the game or anything like it.
The "5" has something to do with the diamond platform. But what?

Maybe the "5" is some kind of a shadow falling from somewhere?

I really wanna figure it our before kick-off. DAve, help us please, help..mayday...

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Tottanka

I really wanna figure it our before kick-off. DAve, help us please, help..mayday...

He has. He gave us the hint. More than that we will not get from him until Kickoff.

[Tottanka]

Guys...we have recieved an updated clue...
look at the update date..January 2nd...

The new one shows a few more things that i have noticed...
there are 2 crowds: top left and center right' as people have already mentioned

AND..i have got a pruff that robots WILL NOT be stationary...
loo at the top right cornet, there's a wheel there...that sais it all