pic: Game hint

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Originally Posted by WillItBlend

Oh btw I believe the other end of the cable is an exact replica, so maybe thats how FIRST saved money on shipping these out, they just snipped these in half lol.

Have you ever tried to put a cable assembly back together that has been simply "snipped in half". I work at a place where we make cable assemblies for all kind of companies including FIRST sponsors & supporters and leaders in technology like Harris, Raytheon, DEKA, & more, and we make terminated (ie: snipped) cables for specific reasons that the customers request of us.

If your theory is correct, I doubt we will get the other half, but rather a full cable with a mystery connector on the other end.

Originally Posted by vivek16

EDIT2: You know you are addicted to FIRST when you have been sitting here on the game hint page for 7 hours on a sunday...

That's kind of sad. No offense.

Originally Posted by vivek16

wait a minute... Is that piece of paper in the picture smaller than 8x11? I hope so. Other wise those led's must be huge!

It looks square. 8x11 is not square. lol

Originally Posted by richardmcc2

But how can it be an official email blast? I'm the alternate contact for my team and did not receive an email. I've received every other email that has been sent to frcteam@usfirst.org, but not this one I want one of these things soooo badly now....

Originally Posted by dragon ninja

hmmm, i couldn't think of any other way that some TIMS contacts would not recieve a supposed email blast.

What if this item was only sent to certain teams? I don't know why that would be, but I remember our team signing up for experimenting with a board from National Instruments a few years ago. Maybe they selected teams who would receive this board this year by a lottery of past electrical based award winners & people who signed up to use that expierimental software as well back in the day?
AKA: Rookies need not apply?*** I don't know. It doesn't sound like the "level playing field advantage" that every team has had in the past if it is in fact part of the 2008 competition, but if not every team has gotten one or will not be getting one then maybe that explains it? idk.

We got one of the 2008 boards btw.

Originally Posted by Libby K

also...
Maybe the fact that only some people have gotten it has to do with their status? Who's paid for their events?

That could be a factor as well. Good thought Libby. Just one more thing to think about when teams say they haven't gotten theirs yet.

*** See below post.