2011 Game Hint #1

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by Bruneau1727

I am already working on ways to climb a column

This is FIRST. I wouldn't spend a significant amount of time on it just yet.

[Bruneau1727]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

This is FIRST. I wouldn't spend a significant amount of time on it just yet.

I don't have anything else to work on, except oh no! I just realized we might be carrying columns! (or putting them in a pool of water)

[synth3tk]

Here's thought for food:

People keep hinting at stairs, correct? This is a special year in FIRST, correct? Stairs have been used in a previous game, correct?

What other previous game elements/features can you extract from this game hint? It's possible we're seeing a combination of games from years past.

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

Here's thought for food:

People keep hinting at stairs, correct? This is a special year in FIRST, correct? Stairs have been used in a previous game, correct?

What other previous game elements/features can you extract from this game hint? It's possible we're seeing a combination of games from years past.

Yes, but they have never been a particularly important feature. In 2004 many teams elected to just climb straight to the top of the platform via the shear edge since the goal was hard to get around if you climbed the stairs. Extra smart teams just hung from the floor (i.e. 71).

The column reminds me of the tall PVC tube goals FIRST used frequently prior to 2005. We saw them as trailers in 2009, but they used to show up almost every year in the 1990s and first part of this decade.

[Fennig247]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

Here's thought for food:

People keep hinting at stairs, correct? This is a special year in FIRST, correct? Stairs have been used in a previous game, correct?

What other previous game elements/features can you extract from this game hint? It's possible we're seeing a combination of games from years past.

This is another key idea. I mean a lot of other games fall into this picture.

"Zone Zeal" was moving trailers that you had to latch onto and move around and collect balls in there
"Raising the Bar" had to deal with the stairs
"Aim High", "Stack Attack, "Ramp and Roll" all had ramps to climb up to score points.

I mean there is multiple different ideas. Maybe there taking the best of all the worlds and pulling out one piece in each game and make it an awesome 20th anniversary game!!