pic: Game hint

[ggoldman]

I think i know who dave really is.....




Virtual DONUTS!!!

Originally Posted by dlavery

hey - Dave gets excited about ANY Krispy Kremes!!!



-dave



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[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by vivek16

lol

this is my FIRST "game hint season"... I'm pretty excited.

Ahem. "...game hint season..."

Don't forget the 3 periods on either side of the statement as laid out in the e-mail. It could be relevant.

[sishu7]

I've gotten a hint...

Can't comment on who said it, but I asked an insider "have you started building the field yet?"

I got the answer, "Actually, there isn't much to build..."

??? Any speculations combining this with the mysterious item received?

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by Kristian Calhoun

Emphasis mine.

Yes, but michelle said it first. Promise.

[sishu7]

C'mon... it's a decent hint (OK, not really). But it's something, right?

Where is all that FIRST creativity and speculation?

[Richard McClellan]

Originally Posted by dragon ninja

i was thinking of an explanation the email not being the usual FIRST email blast. Perhaps, if the email's were indeed falsified, the perpetrator(s) searched the CD members list for those listing their team role as a mentor, and sent the supposed FIRST email to them (accounting for alternate contacts who have not received the email). The email inconsistency and the fact that i cannot navigate to the circuit board documentation using the FIRST site (I can only get to it through the URL in the picture) both keep me hesitant to totally believe this is the real deal. But then again, maybe it is.

Nope, I'm the alternate contact and my team role is listed as "Mentor" and I didn't get the email. Also, I think it would be very difficult to extract email addresses from user profiles.

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?

This could probably be the reason. Our team has gotten either official or unofficial confirmation of the $6000 regional payment for BAE Systems, but the funds have not actually gone through yet and our status is still "Registered" but "Unpaid." Of the teams that didn't get the email and/or package...is this true for you too?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by richardmcc2

Nope, I'm the alternate contact and my team role is listed as "Mentor" and I didn't get the email. Also, I think it would be very difficult to extract email addresses from user profiles.

Easy to send an email via the profiles, but it would come from a chiefdephi address. No hoaxer would dare to do that if he was serious.

I think it has something to do with having paid.

[sishu7]

Originally Posted by sishu7

I've gotten a hint...

Can't comment on who said it, but I asked an insider "have you started building the field yet?"

I got the answer, "Actually, there isn't much to build..."

??? Any speculations combining this with the mysterious item received?

PLEASE...

I'll start. The piece sent to us goes on the robot, and interacts with field elements. The field is almost solely this, and so more software than hardware-based.

OR there is some device above some small central scoring location, but most of the challenge has to do with easily gotten manipulatives (beach balls, whatever)

Yes, I'm bad at theories.

Anyone?

[joeweber]

http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...%20_121007.pdf
Do you think it will use the back up battery , and will we still use the camera with it.

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by sishu7

I've gotten a hint...

Can't comment on who said it, but I asked an insider "have you started building the field yet?"

I got the answer, "Actually, there isn't much to build..."

??? Any speculations combining this with the mysterious item received?

ha. haha. Nice "hint" dude. It would take someone all of five minutes to create and validate a new account. ha. ha ha ha. GET TO DA CHOPPER, NOW!!!

[joeweber]

could the came peice have an area that you must trigger with the ir sensor, and it will change the lights from red to blue or blue to red? We may have to fight over getting to that spot to trigger it.

[wilmo]

air game anyone?

I like the laser-tag like game or the one where we tag bases with the ir, but very very very simple bots for that

[T3_1565]

I don't see a laser tag game, strictly based on the fact it would be boring for spectators to watch, I don't think it's a piece at all, but I do like the idea of it sending red / blue signals in auto so you having to find out which goal is yours

[synth3tk]

It IS the game piece!!! First team to destroy it with it's IR beam wins. Bonus points to the first alliance who can clean up the tiny fragments. Good luck, volunteers. No special handling instructions will be sent. God Speed.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by blakcheez

It IS the game piece!!! First team to destroy it with it's IR beam wins. Bonus points to the first alliance who can clean up the tiny fragments. Good luck, volunteers. No special handling instructions will be sent. God Speed.

lmao, ...nice