2011 Game Hint #1

[METaylor]

The pole is a pole, like a football pole. Soccer last year, football this year. In OCCRA we sent footballs through a field goal to score points.

[BIGWILLI2081]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

Im ready for anything.

famous last words..

[steelerborn]

I can remember my favorite movie when I was a kid was "Honey I Blew up the Kid". But the loco-motion song is performed in that movie (kind of had a weird flashback to sitting and eating mac and cheese, watching that movie when I heard the song). And it is about one crazy engineer that makes a big mistake. So perhaps it is where the song has been used. So going along the lines of that perhaps something has changed in size from the game field, or perhaps the objects make the robots appear either larger or smaller. Maybe a nano-tech game where the bots work with microscopic game pieces like moving one molecule to another.

Also that movie came out in 1992 when the first FRC game was played.
And it is the sequel to the 1989 movie "Honey I Shrunk the Kids".

Just a thought

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

It won't be so easy soon Multiple blobs in one picture, blobs in different light / reflecting light... It's just the beginning.

So all we have to do to beat 589 is make a shiny robot? Or be two different blobs?

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Basel A

So all we have to do to beat 589 is make a shiny robot? Or be two different blobs?

Or have an alliance partner...

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by rcmolloy

Off Topic: Is anyone actually more scared than excited for this game?

I'm always afraid of what the GDC will come up with... Their sanity is often questioned...

[Wayne C.]

seems to me that Little EVA would be a space guy term for Extra Vehicular Activity- maybe a short trip outside the field

maybe on a track like a train between the two field gates



of course I could be wrong....

WC

[pandamonium]

Originally Posted by Bobert

I've cracked it! Little Eva's second album was released in 1989, the same year that FIRST was founded. The album was called "Back on Track."

maybe we missed the boat with locomotion I think back on track would be a good game name

[WhiteShadow1474]

Just to mix things up...

http://www.acronymfinder.com/EVA.html

my favorite one might be the english volleyball association
but that would be similar to overdrive...

[joeweber]

From Wikipeadia

"St. Louis Union Station, a National Historic Landmark, is a passenger train terminal in St. Louis, Missouri. Once the world's largest and busiest train station, "

We assume that when you hear locomaotion you think of trains but some times it is just movement.

If the game is about trains it sure worked out that St. Louis is well known for trains.

Maybe we are pushing goals on tracks that we have to fill and move to different locations, or we have to hook on to objects and connect them into train type segments and than move the train to the finish line.

[rsisk]

Did you know they sell HAAGEN DAZ at PENN station where LOCOMOTION also occurs and according to Twitter, Chris HERRING has also been at PENN station. There is too much convergence for it to be just coincidence....

Twitter / Chris Herring: I'm at New York Penn Stati ...
I'm at New York Penn Station (2 Penn Plz, btw 31st St & 33rd St, New York) w ..

[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by Robert Cawthon

If the Lord High Vacuum of Time and Common Sense ever changes his picture, then it might be a red herring. Otherwise, that picture is as old as the hills!
...

The picture may be old, but perhaps the conception of the game is equally old. Nothing says that the upcoming game was originated in the preceding year. Perhaps the boxcar/locomotion idea has been percolating for some time, waiting for a finishing touch or refinement.

[yarden.saa]

my guess:
The picture is a hint to the game nature but not the game it self.
my guess to the game:
there will be poles as bumpers and: big boxes and big cookies
the purpose is to put the cookie in the box; every cookie in the box reward us with a song of Eva, but there will be mirrors around the field

[karomata]

i also think that our bots and drivers may have to deal with mirrors. it seems realistic.

[JaneYoung]

Reverse image...

Push me-pull me engines. Forward and reverse in order to get the cars (or themselves) where they want them to be for whatever purpose they are working towards.

Midnight Special - the beam of light. Communicating through light/beams/signals?

Edit: Here's something interesting that keeps coming up when I do searches: Australia.

Lead Belly had a sister named, Australia.
Sean Williams is an Australian writer who wrote The Grand Conjunction in 2009, a book in the Astropolis series.
That's right, mate - Australia.

And here's something really fun - Dave Lavery spent part of his life growing up in Australia. To hear him talk about it, he has very fond memories of Australia. He was in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. And in remembering about some of Dave's adventures, I remembered this thread that was posted by Beth Sweet. It was so cool. It's about a book.