2011 Game Hint #1

[karomata]

i'm pretty sure that's little eva, the singer. reseach i've done leads me to many paths that are resonable for FRC to do. also, the research i did on john penn, from the tenis ball, also led me to locomotives and trains. getting more specific, i researched oscillating engines which are the bar things on the sides of train wheels that are usually found on older trains. and the column, i researched the column and it is a replica of columns found in ancient egypt, later copied by the romans. i'm not sure yet how that relates to trains yet, but think about it, the egyptians brought marble from luxor all the way to memphis, then to cairo. then they pulled giant rock slabs up the sides of the pyramids. there may be some theories out there.

more to come

[tcahoon]

Little Eva
Singer famous for the song LOCO-MOTION (not locomotion) with associated dance (doing the loco-motion)

Loco means crazy in spanish. Crazy motion?

song lyrics has possible suggestions of trains, connecting together.

Found image on Google images. one used is a horizontal flipped image of one on google.

[Alan Anderson]

I'm no longer going to follow this thread. There are now too many people posting already-noted information here as their first Chief Delphi message. Someone wake me when another hint comes out, okay?

Happy New Year, everyone.

[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.

[CrazyCarl461]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

There are now too many people posting already-noted information here as their first Chief Delphi message.

I know 28 pages seems like a lot to those who are just now joining the discussion, but try to get through as much of it as you can before posting. The only thing more tedious than following a super-long thread is following a super-long thread with the same observations on every page.

This hint may be completely exhausted of pertinent information until we get something more.

[whosdadog]

Found the album on Amazon not much on there other than glowing customer reviews.

[psyco_klown]

anyone notice dave's avatar of a train? from the looks of it same time period and it looks like it from Creedence Clearwater Revival - Midnight Special hmmm

[rabridges]

Hello Every

After reading the majority of this thread, there are a lot of interesting ideas being throw out. I don't have any to add at the moment, But I did find a video
of the first FIRST competition in 1992, the game was called Maize Craze: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-m1QBOxsfg

It was interesting to watch and the robots collecting tennis ball to score, another video I find was of the second year game 1993 Rug Rage had me
thinking could some elements of this game be in next seasons game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZyU...eature=related

This is all I have for now, also for loco-motion idea. Maybe are controlling the robots differently, maybe using the Xbox Kinect.

-Antron-

[Erik_2505]

Ok, finally finished reading 28 pages, and yes, most of it past the first 5 or 6 pages starts being repeats, or IMHO twisting the possible meaning of the the picture way too far...

So far, I think the only accurate bit of info we can count on is the "locomotion" bit.

Anyway, forgive me if this has already been mentioned, but has anybody suggested that the game pieces may be on tracks of some sort instead of the robot?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by psyco_klown

anyone notice dave's avatar of a train? from the looks of it same time period and it looks like it from Creedence Clearwater Revival - Midnight Special hmmm

You might be on to something. That was changed within the last day or so.

Game Name: Locomotion.
Game field: Standard size and shape.
Game itself: ?????????? (Hint 2 might have this "info")

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by ~Cory~

First Hint
http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedImage...20Hint%201.jpg

Real image:
http://s.dsimg.com/image/A-150-271626-1128158605.jpeg

(I deleted the IMG tags for the sanity of my computer screen)

The image that FIRST gave us was a flipped version of what appears to be the pre-cropped image of one of Little Eva's CD covers. I don't know what the second picture was used for, but that it exists doesn't mean that FIRST made up a similar image :/

Originally Posted by EricH

Nah, the bonus points are for keeping the tilting mechanism with neither end on the floor. Whoever or whatever is on top of it is worth double points as well (and trapping Chuck Norris is worth infinity, Dave, Dean, and Woodie are 500 apiece, and trapping Andy Baker is worth double infinity).

Trapping Billfred is worth negative infinity, right?

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by Karibou

The image that FIRST gave us was a flipped version of what appears to be the pre-cropped image of one of Little Eva's CD covers.

CD cover lol, so young

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Karibou

Trapping Billfred is worth negative infinity, right?

Nah, it's worth a caption contest. Trapping JVN (or any other IFI employee) is negative infinity and a caption contest. Trapping 1114 is a measly 50 points, unless you trap Karthik, which multiplies your entire score by -1.

[porterma64]

Could the reversed image refer to the B side of the Album?

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by IndySam

CD cover lol, so young

FINE. Record cover. Note that I did say "record cover" in an earlier post...