2010 Game Hint #2

[Stephen of REX]

Originally Posted by wolfie261995

Three alliances maybe?

Personally I would love to see three alliances of two, but I don't think the hints have foreshadowed this in the least.

[xPaulWallx4]

Since it looks like we will be on carpet again this year, that means most of the rules that were thrown out last year(high speed raming) will come back into play.

Also, I'd just like to clear this up although someone else may have already done this. But, the yellow plates next to the gate, are just velcro supports, they have always been there; even last year when we weren't really on carpet.

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by Stephen of REX

Personally I would love to see three alliances of two, but I don't think the hints have foreshadowed this in the least.

Just because the hints don't foreshadow it doesn't mean it's not going to happen!

Originally Posted by xPaulWallx4

Also, I'd just like to clear this up although someone else may have already done this. But, the yellow plates next to the gate, are just velcro supports, they have always been there; even last year when we weren't really on carpet.

Even though the robots played on FTP instead of carpet, the field still had a carpet base, which is why the supports still existed. The regolith was simply laid on top of the carpet and taped down.

[Trent B]

Originally Posted by SteveGPage

Both hints are oriented in almost the exact same way - approx 45 degrees

Isometric is a pretty standard method of displaying stuff for a presentation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gr...comparison.png

Dimetric and Trimetric are also in solidworks last I checked (I cannot remember if inventor uses those views too but I know isometric is pretty standard (wiki it to learn what it actually is)) so I wouldn't say 45 degrees is coincidence personally.

[PAR_WIG1350]

Although unlikely, this might not even be part of the field border, but rather in the field somewhere.

[Thuvishan.R]

Originally Posted by viking

I think the hint is telling us:

1. Carpet
2. Same gate configuration - maybe larger
3. 3 gates on each side
4. scorers table moved somewhere else
5. all field elements are on the ends

I agree with everything except # 3 I find that highly doubt full but if they did then that might mean an increase in alliance any one see any 4vs 4 games but I doubt that as well i think were just looking at a regular size feild with carpet with those "racks" (refrenced to game hint 1) which we saw earlier on the sides which deals with scoring. Those yellow markers were probably just to throw us off. As well think about it? why would we put a game peice or human players right where there will be constant traffic flow of robots entering and exiting the feild. Those yellow tabs are just ment to hold the field down to the carpet.

[SteveGPage]

Originally Posted by Trent B

Isometric is a pretty standard method of displaying stuff for a presentation.

Yes, I know. But "WHY" did they use two isometric CAD drawings. In previous years they used a mix of different media such as, pictures, LAT/LONG, Poems, Riddles, Rhymes, etc... This year they used TWO images that are very similar in composition. My point is, don't take the images in isolation. It could be their commonality that is the clue.

Best regards,

Steve

[Chief Samwize]

I believe this hint is less about the gate itself and more about the floor beneath it. To me it does not look like the regular carpet used by FIRST in the past games. To me it looks closer to maybe the foam tiles similar to the field used in the vex tournaments.

I'm not entirely sure about the exact flooring but i think that is the purpose of the hint.

Just my $0.02 lol

-Sam

Then again I'm probably waaaaaayyy off lol

[delsaner]

Originally Posted by Karibou

Just because the hints don't foreshadow it doesn't mean it's not going to happen!

Im sure we switched from alliances of two to alliances of three for a reason, so I can't see a reason why we would want to go back. Plus, three alliances of two would be confusing to rank and to scout.

[jmanela]

Originally Posted by PAR_WIG1350

Although unlikely, this might not even be part of the field border, but rather in the field somewhere.

however, you have to take into account the robot gate in the middle.

[infinitydex]

that is a bording ramp but the rest is real. they sent out on the internet game management look it up. the ramp was just a guess

[infinitydex]

Originally Posted by TD912

Unless they are giving us different wheels this year... Or the GDC threw us a curveball and the field will be grey colored regolith... >_>

if the fields carpet then they probobly will have diffrent wheels

[RoboMaster]

Originally Posted by Chief Samwize

To me it does not look like the regular carpet used by FIRST in the past games. To me it looks closer to maybe the foam tiles similar to the field used in the vex tournaments.

Yeah I've thought about that too. But there's no real way to tell and I think it could just as well be regular carpet.

Your focus on the carpet brings me to think (in my opinion) that the focus is on the gate. There must be some significance about it, so I think this furthers the possibility that the gates are moved and possibly too that the field is majorly re-organized.

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by infinitydex

that is a bording ramp but the rest is real. they sent out on the internet game management look it up. the ramp was just a guess

...internet game management? Enlighten me. Link, or it didn't happen.

[infinitydex]

iam not shure of the link or site i looked it up on google

game management