**FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #3

[MiniNerd24]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

150 replies, and I'm surprised no one has come up with this. The Vet takes care of the gerbils between matches, of course.

Seriously, whoever noticed the wording "Games Hint" may be on to something. That corresponds with Dave's "For the two" signature.

Edit - where did "Games Hint" appear? On the FIRST site (which only has #2 up) it says "Game".

Are you hinting at a two-in-one game?

[SteveMcGarrett]

Originally Posted by Teammax

OK I did not read through all 11 pages of this so I hope I am not repeating anyone. I do think we figured out the clue (almost )

If you ju8st take the letters from the sentence you can spell

"infrared lights" and have the following letters left over

v-u-r-e-t-t

Now if I can just figure out what to make of the last letters we will be all set

vurett=vet rut

back to the triple play difficulties?

[sayso_411]

Originally Posted by Spider-Man

Time for some more crazy speculation.

<speculation align="crazy">

Connections. That First Corps of Cadets building is right across the street from the Commonwealth Mall. There many statues along the length of the mall. Other than the Alexander Hamilton one near Arlington Street and the commons, all of the statues are made of bronze.

The statue that is generally in the same direction as the First Corps of Cadets (which according Team 384 aligns with hint #2) is of Samuel Eliot Morrison, which has a brown finish or patina. Bronze has a natural patina called verdigris that is that light green color that the Statue of Liberty retains and the statue on the next block of William Lloyd Garrison.

That natural patina or verdigris when a statue is near the sea will include cuprous chloride which has a tetrahedral chrystal structure.

The statue of Morrison instead has a light brown to dark brown patina, which according to this site is achievable with ferric nitrate, which has an octahedral coordination geometry. The creators of the statue hurdled the obstacle of the natural bronze patina of green to choose a different color.


Conclusion. Therefore, through loose connections in the hints (excluding #1), I propose that we will be dealing with octahedron game pieces.

As far as the first hint, I think there will be information provided to robots in autonomous that will either be color based or infrared based and it will be up to each team to decide what method to choose. As far as different colors go, I think hurdling the original green color to choose one of their own could suggest that FIRST is going past the monochromatic vision targets.

</speculation>

I think that they might use different colors, good find

[cprogrammer]

I believe that the game will consist of stacking up boxes, then stacking pyramids on top of those boxes to cap them. THe obelisques gave me the idea in copley square

[MiniNerd24]

(totally off topic here) 2039 finally received it's first game hint (the IR gadget)!!!
(back on topic) How about this for a game? Each team (2 teams of 2-3 people) uses their robots to stack and build (or interfere ) with tetras to make some sorta lifting system (a ramp) to get to a goal (for oodles of points) or the closest to the goal (using different sized "blocks" (bigger ones means more points) to get points) wins. You can interfere with the others building process by blocking with your robot.

[team1203 4life]

alright i give up i have read over 1,000 post about the game hints and my brain hurts i give up i'll just wait the remaining 44526 seconds till the kickoff

[BanksKid]

i would just like to let everyone know that i am currently sitting under my desk in the fetal position with blanket in hand and thumb in mouth.....partially because i havent slept in the past 50 hours B/C im way to excited for kickoff in a mere 11 hours 55 min....partially because these hints have dirven me mad.....

[geeknerd99]

I fell asleep a few hours ago (I've been in the shop all afternoon making ready for tomorrow), and I woke up and thought it was morning. I looked at my watch, and it said 9:37. I panicked because I need to be on campus at 9:30 for kickoff. Then I realized that it's still Friday night and I just passed out reading my psych textbook.

I can't help but say. I'm excited. I have a feeling this year will trump all thus far.

[hipsterjr]

After taking part in the great "fake clue" thread, I'm back here . So, I'm thinking that field elements will in some way be movable and obtain point ( sort of like the vex challenges) and/ or be activated by the IR sensors. I do believe there will be climbing as well.

[ALIBI]

Has anyone else taken a look at the 2008 FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITION AT-A-GLANCE in the FRC Communications Resource Center? It was added 1/4/08. There are several interesting bits of information that debunk some of the guesses made about this years game. Take a look.

I tried to post the url here but it did not work.

The last part or the url "_08prekickoff" may indicate that things may change postkickoff.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by ALIBI

Has anyone else taken a look at the 2008 FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITION AT-A-GLANCE in the FRC Communications Resource Center? It was added 1/4/08. There are several interesting bits of information that debunk some of the guesses made about this years game. Take a look.

I tried to post the url here but it did not work.

The last part or the url "_08prekickoff" may indicate that things may change postkickoff.

This leads to it if anyone wants to check it out.

http://www.usfirst.org/community/res...er.aspx?id=640

Another thing is "FRC 2008 At-A-Glance" ...Not much that you can draw out from it though. But its full of fun facts about FIRST.

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by BanksKid

i would just like to let everyone know that i am currently sitting under my desk in the fetal position with blanket in hand and thumb in mouth.....partially because i havent slept in the past 50 hours B/C im way to excited for kickoff in a mere 11 hours 55 min....partially because these hints have dirven me mad.....

My work here is done....


-dave


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[Optimizer]

Originally Posted by sayso_411

Alright everybody... i think team 384 might have a slight breakthrough in the game hints!!

if you go to this link you will notice that, using the coordinate idea, i have found this

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=e...5&iwloc=B&om=1

if you look at business "B" it is called "FIRST Corps of Cadets Veterans" and is approximately 342 degrees in the direction of Copley Square!!!

if anyone can shed some light on my findings it would be appreciated by everyone.

Good Luck everybody from team 384!!
--this guess was found by Brad Wilson of team 384--

The biggest problem I see with this theory is its claim that this place is "approximately 342 degrees in the direction of Copley Square". To put it simply, this is factually incorrect - there's no way it's in that direction, from anywhere in the square! Sorry, guys!

[Optimizer]

Originally Posted by dlavery

My work here is done....

-dave


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Wow, what on Earth are you doing up at this hour? Aren't you in my time zone? I already caught some ZZZZZs, myself, and will catch some more soon.

BTW, I also thought that post was priceless, and look forward to my first FIRST kickoff tomorrow!

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Optimizer

Wow, what on Earth are you doing up at this hour? Aren't you in my time zone? I already caught some ZZZZZs, myself, and will catch some more soon.

BTW, I also thought that post was priceless, and look forward to my first FIRST kickoff tomorrow!

psssh. Sleep is for the weak.

-dave



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