2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

[sdexp]

Based on the way FIRST has treated the hint in the past, this image seems pretty different. My conscience still tells me that the 5 has something either to do with sports or entertainment.

There must be a variety of levels, or platforms, and like Johnny 5, there will be some mini-projectile involved. I was told by my teacher that something related to basketball may even be put in for this. Tubes may connect these platforms, and contain some substance which revolves around the field in those tubes, activating some switch in the current platforms it goes through.

[Tottanka]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

This season, each team's decision regarding building field mockups may be a bit more complex than normal.

Oh my oh my oh my....

What am i supposed to be thinking NOW?!

Ok...
So that sure goes along with the water\fire balls shooting\volcano eruption on middle of the arena\Whatever theories that have been posted here, but lets get real...

I think that it means that there will be something heavy in the field, like a big platform of metal in the middle or something...
Maybe, it could mean that the fiels is a sort of RANDOM, meaning that there is some sort of spread, like someone mentioned before about bottles of H2O, though its not complicated if its random, as last year's arena was rantom too in a sort of way, the balls HAVE laid in random places, so its quiet the same...

And therefore, i think that the arena is going to be very complicated, and we are gonna need the whole arena to exersice our bot well, unlike last year when all we needed was to hang a Hoolah-Hoop to the window and nail the green light above it...

Oh boy Oh boy Oh boy...
3 and a half days to KickOff and i have already finished our website, what am i gonna do now in order to not stare at the clue 24/7 ?

[gondorf]

ok in the enlarged version of the game hint located on the decrypted file ther eis definitely a banana in the background. even the stem is shown.

current speculations believe we will be climbing a diamond plate aluminum tree and picking bananas.

[Joel J]

I can't help but see the ring around the diamond plate circle, and realize that it looks like the red/blue rings around the goal openings last year..

Here's what my sisters says (knows about FIRST, but only as that "thing her brother does", and hasn't ever been to a competition):

- it looks like a man hole cover
- shooting.. are you going to be shooting something?
- does it involve water?
- time: 50 seconds.
- tunnels/mazes
- a ramp? I always see ramps with that pattern on it (referring to the diamond plate)
- a course: ramps, corners, etc -- lots to do.

She pretty muched summed this whole thread up in about 5 seconds.

[gondorf]

OOOOOOOOOO 5!!!!
this is the fifth year of them following the usfirst logo! this means cubez! eureka! hmm... well there is a theory on the 5.

[Libby K]

Elgin's post earlier in this thread [on the previous page, but if I don't link it you can't see the picture attached]..I looked at the picture..

doesn't it kind of look like a jello mold? hmmmmm.....

Originally Posted by dlavery

-dave (I am still holding out for the jello-based game)

just adding to some of the absurd ideas.....

hope that doesn't drive anyone insane, I just feel like throwing in a completely wacky $0.02.

[Malenddruid]

The 5 of diamonds seems to be a good little hint...Maybe playing cards with the robots or some sort of card game. Possibly Innertubes as one of our mentors said...maybe a strategy game of some sort...Ferdi also says there will be 5 platforms we will have to jump our robot from...Highly unlikely but that's Ferdi for ya!

[Joel J]

1. balls: tennis, dodge, kick, playground, poof, soccer, etc..
2. Innertubes
3. floppies
4. tote boxes
5. tetras

There have only really been five unique game pieces. Are they all going to be present this year?

Nah.. no.. no way?

nO?

Nah..

[pogg]

He may be on to something with his idea of the five unique objects used in passed events reapearing in this years event. each object could be on a platform that total up to five in all.

[John Gutmann]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

- a ramp? I always see ramps with that pattern on it (referring to the diamond plate)

That is because diamond plate is easy to grip....

[underwood]

does anyone else see ripples in the blue background? maybe we must float five manhole covers across a pool or something...

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by sparksandtabs

That is because diamond plate is easy to grip....

Would you like me to tell that to my sister?

[Éowyn]

Originally Posted by underwood

does anyone else see ripples in the blue background? maybe we must float five manhole covers across a pool or something...

Float?!? that'd be quite a feat . . .

[Annubis]

I can guarantee it's nothing to do with water. I got an account for this just because of something I noticed in the picture that I don't think anyone has mentioned and thought you would all want to know. Maximize the picture after clicking on it and look very closely and look at the background very closely at the far right side near the center. What do you see? That's right, faces. Cartoon faces in a crowd, which points out many things. This is most likely a screenshot from the instructional video they are going to show saturday, whatever this object is it is upright and see-through, as well as quite large and circular judging from the size and distortion of the faces. You can also spot faces faintly in the top left corner suggesting that the object is towards the middle of the field since it is visible from such different angles. The rest is just speculation, but I'm guessing it is a large hollow goal or basket of some sort as opposed to an inner tube because i doubt an inner tube or anything inflatable would have diamond plate holstered to it. Another guess is that this is one of five near identical objects, or that there are a different number of these and the five is a point value. Does most of this sound at least somewhat plausible?

[mtaman02]

Originally Posted by Annubis

I can guarantee it's nothing to do with water. I got an account for this just because of something I noticed in the picture that I don't think anyone has mentioned and thought you would all want to know. Maximize the picture after clicking on it and look very closely and look at the background very closely at the far right side near the center. What do you see? That's right, faces. Cartoon faces in a crowd, which points out many things. This is most likely a screenshot from the instructional video they are going to show saturday, whatever this object is it is upright and see-through, as well as quite large and circular judging from the size and distortion of the faces. You can also spot faces faintly in the top left corner suggesting that the object is towards the middle of the field since it is visible from such different angles. The rest is just speculation, but I'm guessing it is a large hollow goal or basket of some sort as opposed to an inner tube because i doubt an inner tube or anything inflatable would have diamond plate holstered to it. Another guess is that this is one of five near identical objects, or that there are a different number of these and the five is a point value. Does most of this sound at least somewhat plausible?

Yeah that actually does. Rep Points if you hit the nail on the head - only one way to find out T-1 Day 21 Hours 20 Minutes