2011 Game Hint #1

[Jon Stratis]

Well, the Loco-motion was released in 1962. Other notable happenings in 1962:
- An extremely rare grand conjunction occurred during the new moon and solar eclipse, including the sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Earth.
- John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth
- the debut of the Hulk and of Spider-man
- The AT&T Telstar, the first commercial communications satellite, was launched
- JFK's speech at Rice (oddly, this is the 4th time that speech has come up for me in the past few months...)
- the first James Bond film
- Cuban Missile Crisis

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by eagle33199

Well, the Loco-motion was released in 1962. Other notable happenings in 1962:
- the first James Bond film

That'd be a fun one!

"Name's Robot, FIRST Robot"
"<gamepiece> shaken, not stirred."

It'd be a neat game mechanic to have to shake something, but I'm not sure how you'd work it in. At any rate, we're pretty far in left field here.

(You guys are fast!)

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

It'd be a neat game mechanic to have to shake something, but I'm not sure how you'd work it in.

Shake Weights are the game piece. The world is free to end now.

[Team#2057-Vegas]

I'm somewhat regretting a hint now My life is non-existent for 18 days.. We definitely have a good set of ideas here.. good imput everyone!

[karomata]

i've found something interesting;
there is an american football club in russia named locomotive
could footballs be the game piece?
i have lots of other information and i think i've got it.
more to come
stay tuned

[Team#2057-Vegas]

Originally Posted by karomata

i've found something interesting;
there is an american football club in russia named locomotive
could footballs be the game piece?
i have lots of other information and i think i've got it.
more to come
stay tuned

that fits with the idea someone had in the "waiting patiently for the 2011" forum.. that the tennis ball said "PENN" on it for pennstate?

[jmanela]

Originally Posted by Team#2057-Vegas

that fits with the idea someone had in the "waiting patiently for the 2011" forum.. that the tennis ball said "PENN" on it for pennstate?

I don't think we should speculate too much on the red herrings, due to the fact that the second was just a google image search of "red herring".

[chemipanda]

i don't know if this is helpful but if you go to the link in the picture its a robotics team from Mexico...just throwing that out there

[iblis432]

EVA can also stand for Electronic Video Assistant. Couldn't it be possible that it has something to do with robot vision? they've been trying to get teams to do more with vision for awhile now, maybe we're required to do it in endgame or something. Or better yet, earlier people were mentioning a major game change before end game but after auto, maybe the screen darkens in front of the drivers and they have to use their vision code to see what's going on.

[Team#2057-Vegas]

Originally Posted by iblis432

EVA can also stand for Electronic Video Assistant. Couldn't it be possible that it has something to do with robot vision? they've been trying to get teams to do more with vision for awhile now, maybe we're required to do it in endgame or something. Or better yet, earlier people were mentioning a major game change before end game but after auto, maybe the screen darkens in front of the drivers and they have to use their vision code to see what's going on.

talk about intense game play and going out with a boom! it'd definitely give a few bonus points..

[roboticsrunner1]

Going off the "Loco-motion" idea, in the same year that song was released (1962) New York City use the first automatic subway train. Could that mean fully autonomous game or is this info have nothing to do with the game. We just have to wait and see!

[Captain Slacker]

Originally Posted by iblis432

EVA can also stand for Electronic Video Assistant. Couldn't it be possible that it has something to do with robot vision? they've been trying to get teams to do more with vision for awhile now, maybe we're required to do it in endgame or something. Or better yet, earlier people were mentioning a major game change before end game but after auto, maybe the screen darkens in front of the drivers and they have to use their vision code to see what's going on.

Alright forgive me if this is wrong or has already been said, but I vaguely remember someone talking about stepping it up and making the game more interactive. I may be messing things up in my mind, but I thought Dean has mentioned it somewhere. If teams had to use more interactive robots that would definitely add some intensity to the game, but I feel like it would still be pretty user-friendly. I definitely like this observation.

[Team#2057-Vegas]

Originally Posted by jmanela

I don't think we should speculate too much on the red herrings, due to the fact that the second was just a google image search of "red herring".

good point: just throwing things out there

[dag0620]

Originally Posted by karomata

i've found something interesting;
there is an american football club in russia named locomotive
could footballs be the game piece?
i have lots of other information and i think i've got it.
more to come
stay tuned

I find that very interesting.....

We all have said in the past that football would be a good way to go, it's not a sphere, and it sticks with the whole making this a sport, and could be another spectator friendly sport..

[Dustin Shadbolt]

Originally Posted by karomata

i've found something interesting;
there is an american football club in russia named locomotive
could footballs be the game piece?
i have lots of other information and i think i've got it.
more to come
stay tuned

Nice find. That ties into the PENN thing about football from the other thread. And it would spectator friendly.