Game Hint #2

[njamietech]

i like the idea of a hockey style game (ice optional). but thats mostly because I am from Calgary Alberta and as result I am a HUGE flames fan.

GO FLAMES GO.

anyways,

I think a hockey game is possible. I also like the idea of a triangluar field. we have had other field shapes but never a triangle.

however, i think a little more investigation is needed.

[MCahoon]

There are two species of opah - one of which is only found in the Southern Ocean waters around the South Pole (ice game?) 34th parallel south to the Antarctic Polar Front

[smurfgirl]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Pucks, hmmm... maybe combine 2002 (the year with the big pucks if I recall) and a slippery surface with multiple levels. Each team is trying to give away the pucks.

Does this make anyone else think of that picture with the curling robots on a multi-level ice field? I've been searching for it here, but to no avail.

[RMiller]

For what it is worth, that stadium in Dover, OH is not on Evergreen Dr. Rather, it is on 7th St and Evergreen Dr is housing.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by smurfgirl

Does this make anyone else think of that picture with the curling robots on a multi-level ice field? I've been searching for it here, but to no avail.

I linked to it earlier in this thread.

[RMiller]

Originally Posted by EricH

Dave posted this a while back. 'Nuff said.

Here

[JesseK]

If you assume Paramount, CA and Dover, DE, you can also make the conjecture that teams will have to go all the way from one side of the field to the other side of the field to complete the task.

[Zach Purser]

Originally Posted by RMiller

For what it is worth, that stadium in Dover, OH is not on Evergreen Dr. Rather, it is on 7th St and Evergreen Dr is housing.

That's a good point. And we know that Dean hates sports, so maybe a football field is a bad fit. An airfield does seem a better fit for a field that Dean would approve of.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by RMiller

Here

I think Eric was TRYING to get them to read the thread themselves. I'll say it again here (though I know it will be ignored in this frenzy) READ THE THREAD!

[logicalyrandom]

Not really paying attention to the proper nouns used in the riddle, and combining it with the first hint, i think the game is likely to go as follows:

Autonomous mode: Bots must make a sensory connection to some sort of object, say, in the center of the field, and must 'fish' for an object, either up high or in a hole. Once Autonomous ends, the bots then must try to get similar objects from the sides of the fields, then must place then either in a goal on either their end of the field, or their opponents end of the field.

This fits the clues in the riddle and the picture of a fish.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

I think Eric was TRYING to get them to read the thread themselves. I'll say it again here (though I know it will be ignored in this frenzy) READ THE THREAD!

Yep, that's part of it. The other part is I didn't want to go chase it down again.

And I second the call to read the thread. It's still under 100 posts, so it shouldn't take that long.

[GaryVoshol]

I'm a little surprised no one has come up with this yet:

There are FRC teams in Dover NH, Phoenix AZ and Minnetonka MN. But not in Paramount CA.

There is a Colorado in Paramount, a Central Ave in Phoenix, a Minnetonka (Drive?) in Minnetonka, and an Evergreen Valley Drive in Dover. The last is a small residential cul de sac, but there is a baseball field near the end of the drive. So it might not be the football stadium in Dover, OH.

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by EricH

What I saw on Minnetonka in Minnetonka: A bunch of parks, about half of which had athletic fields (pickup game, or pickup from a game) and one of which had some form of dome; a bunch of lakes and ponds (pond hockey--another "pickup"), and a marina or so. This using Google Maps.


Final analysis (for now): sports-based game, most closely related to hockey. There will be HDPE or Lexan on the field, on a raised element. You don't have to be on the raised element to score, but you will need to keep moving (fish and format of the last clue). And don't damage the field!

I think we need to look closer at the dome, it jumps out at me for some reason, also does no one else see head on tothe field, a connection to FTC perhaps?

[Herodotus]

Just throwing this out there, but if we continue with the "uneven terrain" stuff, Dover could also be a dual reference to Dover, England, the site of some rather famous cliffs. I think if anything it would be a side reference though, I have a feeling the U.S. locations are more important.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

There are FRC teams in Dover NH, Phoenix AZ and Minnetonka MN. But not in Paramount CA.

There are lots of teams relatively close to Paramount, CA, though. FRC 2174 is just northwest, FRC 1135 was just east, I live not too far to the west, andt there are teams there, oh, and Paramount's just up the 710 freeway from Long Beach, where the Los Angeles Regional will be held this year.