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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2

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It seems like it is pretty well established that the first two numbers indicate a location, but with GDC, you can never be too sure.

Anyway, I thought it was interesting to start off with 342.24026 as a temperature (in Kelvin of course), so
342.24026 kelvin = 69.09026 degrees Celsius

I don't know, what you can do with that but I thought it was interesting, maybe there was a day that had that temperature that has signifigance? Or maybe someone on the GDC wants everyone to know more about global warming. This hint is starting to remind me the one that corresponded to Triple Play, quirky stuff.

The relation of Trinity Church to National Treasure, I think there maybe something to come out of that, like the fact there will yet again be three teams on an alliance. A few random facts about the history of the church,
Maybe one of those two facts can lead to something, if not it's odd history.

Oh and as an Art History Geek, the Church is in a Romanesque Style, which means the arches are rounded, maybe that has something to do with the field.
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THE WATER GAME CONNECTION!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!
So Trinity Church and Copley Square are located in the Back Bay Section of Boston and for those of you who do not know what that means....

Back Bay is a section of Boston that used to be the Back Bay of the City....before they filled it in with Dirt, Clay, Mud, Rocks, and whatever else they could find.

So that means...the game starts in water, and they fill it in with a bunch of stuff. Then as the temperatures begin to rise (see the first thing I stated, about global warming) the environment on the field changes and all of a sudden it goes back to a water game, so teams are challenged to stop the water from coming back and flooding the game area again, kind of like preventing global warming.

Ok I'm done, yeah I looked up the coordinates of the numbers in different orders, looks like I stumbled upon a Red Herring several times. Have fun figuring this one out!


At least other people are speculating about a water based game, a group of us have been having the feeling that this year would be a water based game for two reasons

1. The brand new battery we used last year is waterproof, we may need to use it again this year

2. At the end of last year's kickoff, if you recall, Dave, Woodie, and Dean were all floating on the ringers on water, and they said "I can't imagine what we can be doing next year".....

Thats all i got
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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2

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A TRAFFIC CONE!
If that's the case, the Michigan teams should do very well--the orange barrel is our state tree
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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2

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At least other people are speculating about a water based game, a group of us have been having the feeling that this year would be a water based game for two reasons

1. The brand new battery we used last year is waterproof, we may need to use it again this year

2. At the end of last year's kickoff, if you recall, Dave, Woodie, and Dean were all floating on the ringers on water, and they said "I can't imagine what we can be doing next year".....

Thats all i got
I believe it was EricH who stated it best...
"At first, "water game" was funny. Then it went to silly. Now it's just dumb. Not to mention unrealistic for FIRST."
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Re: Got It!

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Having come back, and read EVERY darned post, didn't anybody notice the infamous Dave's latest post (#48, on the page 24)? In the signature part on the bottom, it adds (and I think this is a new thing):

For the two - this season is for you.
I missed that...but with 4 channels for the IR, could it point to a revert back to 2-team alliances? There was discussion re: fixing the alliance-choosing method....
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I missed that...but with 4 channels for the IR, could it point to a revert back to 2-team alliances? There was discussion re: fixing the alliance-choosing method....
I agree it probably has teams of two or three. Wouldn't it be cool with three or four teams playing?
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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2

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If that's the case, the Michigan teams should do very well--the orange barrel is our state tree
don't forget the state motto:
"road work ahead"
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..... didn't anybody notice the infamous Dave's latest post (#48, on the page 24)? In the signature part on the bottom, it adds (and I think this is a new thing):

For the two - this season is for you.
"the two"
Could be the two hints we received, or........ could be Spirit and Opportunity. Two almost exclusively autonomous robots. You know the story.
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I agree it probably has teams of two or three. Wouldn't it be cool with three or four teams playing?
Especially if, as some have suggested, we are playing a football like game and you combine two teams of two to make a four team super-alliance. Would also make the bracket structure REALLY interesting this year.
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Re: Got It!

No, the season is for the two, the game is never for the hints; the hints are for the game. The season is for two of something else. (Teams in an alliance perhaps, i.e. its for the years we used two bots per alliance)
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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2

Ooooooh, I just thought of another thing, how about FIRST employees or workers in a one team alliance against the other teams typed example:
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()-team 1
[]-team 2 [] F {}
{}-team 3
\/- team 4 \/
F -FIRST workers

And the FIRST people try to stop the others Like the House Robots on Robot Wars(unbiased control).
Sort of a King of the Hill thing.
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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2

It would be very hard to do that with teams in alliances, something FIRST seems to like. They aren't much for mono-e-mono (positive thats NOT how you spell it, oh well) matches.
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"the two"
........ could be Spirit and Opportunity. Two almost exclusively autonomous robots. You know the story.
the game might have a more important or longer autonomous mode
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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2

I just noticed a sponsor listed in a signature of a poster in CD. It is Nanosolar.

http://www.nanosolar.com/

I remembered a couple of posts in this thread regarding Nanosolar. In the company vision statement, they mention global warming. Global warming has been talked about regarding the hints.

I just thought it interesting.
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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #2

By the way the last post I did, well, the text is messed up. It was supposed to be in a cross (clockwise) with Team 1 on top teams 2, F, and team 4 on the right, center and left(respectively) and team 3 on bottom.
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Re: Got It!

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No, the season is for the two, the game is never for the hints; the hints are for the game. The season is for two of something else. (Teams in an alliance perhaps, i.e. its for the years we used two bots per alliance)
accually your on to something maybe, because if you look at dave's sig at the very end the that, "My other car is still on Mars" sig and if you click on the Car part it sends you to the NASA page for the 4 year aniversary that Spirit is still functioning on Mars (they said it should of lasted only 90 days, but look at it now)
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