Dave's updated signature

[DonRotolo]

In a way, it's a little disturbing. Here we have several hundreds, perhaps thousands, of mostly intelligent people looking at the game hints, and the statement in the sig is that we "refuse" to see it because it does not conform to our expectations.

If we speculate that Dave's statement is related to the game hint(s), then what is it that we're not seeing? What doesn't conform to our expectations?

Is it reasonable to discard everything we learned in the past before evaluating this year's hint(s)?

Personally, I can wait until January 5th to find out what it is we may be accused of missing here, but....

I feel so inadequate.

Don

[JaneYoung]

The statue is holding a paintbrush in one hand and a palette and brushes in the other.

A palette is a thin oval board or tablet on which a painter lays or mixes his colors.

Choices? Selections?

[kramarczyk]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Choices? Selections?

That meshes with the capability of the IR board.
<edit>Choices = Engineering Decisions ???</edit>

[kramarczyk]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Dave was an evil genius in his previous life.

And there is proof!!!

http://thelaverytory.blogspot.com/20...e-on-mars.html

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

"The answers to one of the most oft-debated questions of the year is sitting right there in their hands, but they refuse to see it because it does not conform to their expectations."

Ahh, so we are scoring bananas into a pool of Jello.

[neutrino15]

It's a worldwide triathlon.

-The robot will need to:
•Fly to Japan
•Travel autonomously along the Silk Road while using the IR controller as a TV b-gone the whole way.
•Swim to Boston using only last years ringers as flotation devices and end at that square. Maybe signify the finish by placing bananas in a pool of jello..

It's perfect!

[seanwitte]

There have been questions floating around all year about a new control system. There it is, "right there in their hands". Since it doesn't "conform to their expectations" it is not obvious. There will be no control system and the robots will be driven with television remote controls.

[DonRotolo]

I hope not.

Maybe it's a lot simpler than we think: Copley Square. Oft-debated is 'what is the game piece?' Ergo, game piece is a square. Box, maybe.

It is fun to speculate, then see how close we got. "Shovel's show" and "Montana" indeed!

You know: Even if we guessed it 100% exactly, we wouldn't know until kickoff anyway...

[=Martin=Taylor=]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

I just saw that he has added this to his signature;

"The answers to one of the most oft-debated questions of the year is sitting right there in their hands, but they refuse to see it because it does not conform to their expectations."

Now, this is driving me even more crazy with the two game hint threads because he makes it sounds like we almost have the answer....

Don't you see?! The IR sensor won't be used to play the game.... It IS the game! We will have to pick up hundreds of IR sensors and dump them in bins.

That's what he means by "sitting right there in their hands."

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII

Don't you see?! The IR sensor won't be used to play the game.... It IS the game! We will have to pick up hundreds of IR sensors and dump them in bins.

That's what he means by "sitting right there in their hands."

What a waste of perfectly good money. Then again, so is investing in dave's hairbrain schemes... Although it would make for some fun rounds. The challenge is to not only dump them but not to break as many as possible!

[supertetelmanma]

"The answers to one of the most oft-debated questions of the year is sitting right there in their hands, but they refuse to see it because it does not conform to their expectations."


I know dave nromally tries to screw us up... and lead us in the wrong path every year.... but maybe hes expecting us to think that so this year he gave us a real clue.....

I can get to translations from this.... Some people in another thread said that thos coordinates were on a statue maybe there is some graffitti on their hands but we didn't notice it because we wouldn't ecpect FIRST to do that.....

Or maybe the thought to be coordinates were that exact for a reason and everyone who has been saying they are just a rough estimate is wrong... just because numbers that exace do not conform to our expextions.....


Or you could just take the third number.... It's not height its depth.... everyone in the area grab a shovel.... and lets start digging!!!!!

[JesseK]

So if his hints are always wrong/off we should indeed look at alternative coordinates, such as the ones that point to antarctica.

We should also look at our feet instead of our hands.

We should also expect a circle instead of a square.

So we're now looking for combinations of coordinates where (perhaps a monkey?) is playing its feet in a circle.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by JesseK

So if his hints are always wrong/off we should indeed look at alternative coordinates, such as the ones that point to antarctica.

We should also look at our feet instead of our hands.

We should also expect a circle instead of a square.

So we're now looking for combinations of coordinates where (perhaps a monkey?) is playing its feet in a circle.

If memory serves, Dave made a reference to a water spider in a post last year.
To me, the water spider legs are like the spider legs of the rack. It's a matter of interpretation and perspective.

[Chief Samwize]

So should we be looking at hands? Maybe the game peice/scoring structure will have something to do with hands. Or maybe we have to build debaiting robots.

-Sam

[Rich Wong]

Since we are dissecting Dave's every word, I am surprised that no one has dissected the signature phase just before the line “The answer to one…”

I notice the words “six or five” is in the paragraph. That maybe related to the five LED on the new sensor board.

Possible game scenario: Did the team tracked five stations or touch five zones?
The new sensor board maybe for referees to automatically record the number of stations or boundaries the robots have crossed. The sensor must be visible on the robot and the referees will read off the count on the board.