pic: Game hint

[Graham Donaldson]

Originally Posted by www.divsys.com

Every one of the teams will be getting one of these. They were shipped out in batches. 1500parts and cables is no 8hour task.

BMW

Provided that www.divsys.com is a real user, which I'm sure they are, I'd say that this proves once and for all that this is not a hoax. Why didn't we ever think of production issues when we were wondering why not all teams had gotten them?!?!? [smacks self on forehead]

EDIT: Bill Moore sent me a message with a very good point that Diversified Systems is based in Indiana, and Joe got his from NH. My idea/response is this (and I quote, from my PM): "Only thing I can think of- divsys is sending them on to FIRST HQ, who packages them and then sends them out to teams, in accordance with who has already paid??? Saves giving divsys the team list and complicating things for them."

Originally Posted by Libby K

How do we know this is a hint for 2008?

Seriously. Knowing the GDC (or specifically, Dave...)

Funny you should say that, Libby- I was thinking the same thing in engineering today. Has anyone ever looked to see if the game hints relate to the next year's game, or something crazy like that? I mean, if Dave's on it, you really never can tell...

[Branden Ghena]

I have read through all of the posts on here, but I couldn't find this...

Has any team apart from Team 330 actually received the IR Sensor yet?

[T3_1565]

well the email that was sent did say "...game hint season..."

[EricH]

Originally Posted by tawnos23

I have read through all of the posts on here, but I couldn't find this...

Has any team apart from Team 330 actually received the IR Sensor yet?

Yes. Start on page one, and 846 got theirs.

[Branden Ghena]

Thanks

[Ed Sparks]

Team 34 got one today. I'm going to post a model in the FirstCadLibrary just for fun in a day or so.

[legomaster3945]

Originally Posted by T3_1565

well the email that was sent did say "...game hint season..."

yes but it also said look for the gift
not exact quote i didnt want to dig it up again
but i remember game hint season but to look out for FRC anf GDC gift

Edit* not sure if we recived either email or the chip yet we had no school today

[T3_1565]

true enough, but the chip did come with a piece of paper that said visit http://usfirst.org/decgift (or close to that)

We should really get a tally going of who got the email and who got there part

EDIT: For some reason I cannot start a new thread, so can someone else do it? and if Bradon sees this can you PM me as to why I cannot create a new thread??

[razor95kds]

766 has just received the chip (mailed to my brother who graduated from the team 3 years ago). it came in a package labeled "FRC game hint"

[synth3tk]

It's on the first page, but the exact link it redirects to is http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc...t.aspx?id=7600

[T3_1565]

I thank you for the link blakcheez I just noticed something interesting!

http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc...t.aspx?id=6616 this is the 2008 email blast archieve! why isn't the game hint email here???

[synth3tk]

That was brought up earlier. An answer is yet to be found, but so far this whole thing still seems legit. Could be dave working his defunct "magic" in the background...

[Nica F.]

To follow up on the hint not really affecting anything outside of autonomous mode, I agree.

I really think that this hint won't affect the game for a lot of teams. If you think of Aim High and all the emphasis on the green light, many teams just used set angles and others positions where they knew they could make a goal.
For the Rack and Roll game the use of the green light again, could be avoided by teams who decided to just take a shot at dead reckoning. And others, didn't bother at an autonomous mode because the work on the camera would just be too much to handle.

Of course if the sensor, universal remote, or whatever crazy contraption that can help you find every goal imaginable would help during the game for certain advantages but in the end thats a lot of hype for something that only affects one aspect of the game (if it does happen to affect only autonomous mode that is).

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Libby K

You realize if you keep messing with our heads, we're just going to stop paying attention to you? Then it's no fun for you.

Pssst....everyone...IGNORE DAVE!

Can't be done. It's like when you're driving down the highway and see an accident on the other side. You know you should just keep going - but you've GOT to slow down and look. That's how it is with Dave's Head-Messing (DHM). You know you shouldn't waste time, but you try to figure it out anyway.

[T3_1565]

oh I didn't get a chance to read all 27 pages lol. It wouldn't surprise me if Dave told the webmaster of the FIRST site to hold out on putting that email in the archieve for a couples days so we mention it and say its a hoax when it isn't!!!!!

When will it end
When will my mind be a peace now that a hint has arisen???





oh well it's super fun who needs sleep anyways