2011 FRC Game Hint #2

[Brianna]

Some other kids of 93 and I have decided that because it's the 20th anniversary, FIRST is going to borrow things from other seasons. Track balls from 2008, and the tetrahedron from Triple Play 2005, because of the logo being a hint. Not sure about the square game piece.

[Frenchie461]

I don't think i've seen this yet, but has anyone looked at any of the other songs on the album besides locomotion for possible game inspiration? The number of tracks on the album could also be a giveaway for something.

My personal theory is that the game will be a greatest hits of past first games, but that's just me...

[karomata]

the reason that that song is so looked into is because the chain dance developed out of it.

[DarrinMunter]

That album was released Feb. 2001

http://new.music.yahoo.com/little-eva/albums/

[karomata]

after more research,

Little Eva's song Swing'in on a Star looks interesting

that would be new for FRC

Hmmmm....Triple Play returns???

[Robert Cawthon]

This should probably be in Game Hint #1, but it seems to me that since the album is a compilation of Little Eva's songs and the image is reversed, the game would be a compilation of the previous games (Best of?) with a twist. i.e. the trackball has to roll under the ladder and the robot has to climb over or some such. And I like the idea of three game pieces.

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Brianna

Some other kids of 93 and I have decided that because it's the 20th anniversary, FIRST is going to borrow things from other seasons. Track balls from 2008, and the tetrahedron from Triple Play 2005, because of the logo being a hint. Not sure about the square game piece.

Last (and only?) Sqaure/Rectangular game piece were the Totes from Stack Attack which was the game in the 2003 Season.

Though, the First Logo isn't a Triangle, Circle and Sqaure, it's actually a Cone, Sphere and Cylinder...

Originally Posted by Robert Cawthon

This should probably be in Game Hint #1, but it seems to me that since the album is a compilation of Little Eva's songs and the image is reversed, the game would be a compilation of the previous games (Best of?) with a twist. i.e. the trackball has to roll under the ladder and the robot has to climb over or some such. And I like the idea of three game pieces.

I agree with this, I think FIRST's Greatest Hits with a Twist is far more likely than a Train inspired game. For some reason, I can't bring myself to interpret the first clue as a hint to the song "locomotion".

[pwortman]

I had an idea that maybe more was removed from the originals for the hints, so i found the originals and placed them side by side and played "find the differences" unfortunately, I couldn't see anything out of the ordinary :/

maybe someone else can see what I cannot?



Heck, there may not be anything anyway

(if anyone wants a bigger pic, email me and i'll send it to ya! ptwortman@gmail.com)

[SEV33RoboMan]

Ive read thousands of threads before in years past on game hints but this year has been amazing. Game hint 1 is well over 800 post and climbing and now this one is soon to catch up.

My thought with this little time left before kick-off it wont matter how well or how close you guess.

[Christopher149]

It's probably not significant, but the hint uses a brighter blue, a slightly darker red, and less color variation within the shapes.

[Grim Tuesday]

Originally Posted by Christopher149

It's probably not significant, but the hint uses a brighter blue, a slightly darker red, and less color variation within the shapes.

That actually might be significant, considering that it means that it was not a simple crop operation.

Maybe this year will have something to do with sorting colors.

[holygrail]

I think maybe there will be three alliances this year instead of two (red, white, and blue). Maybe with just two robots on each alliance (that's a throwback, there used to be 2 team alliances). The robots will be linked together either with your alliance, or, more interestingly, with your opponents at some point during the match. That brings in the "locomotion" concept (the name of the song by the lady in the photo in hint 1).

My opinion. I'm really just saying this so that I get bragging rights if I'm in any way correct.

[JesseK]

Slide 3 of this official document shows that the hint actually used the official colors of the FIRST logo. Use the CMYK/RGB values given on that slide to do a more quantitative analysis. You'll also have to account for .jpg artifacts that show up as part of the compression as well.

Do not confuse those colors with the other colors of the 'family' of programs, explained on slide 17: while the FRC color is a darker blue, that darker blue is never actually on the Square part of the logo, ever! It's only used in lettering for FRC.

[Robert Cawthon]

Originally Posted by holygrail

I think maybe there will be three alliances this year instead of two (red, white, and blue). Maybe with just two robots on each alliance (that's a throwback, there used to be 2 team alliances). The robots will be linked together either with your alliance, or, more interestingly, with your opponents at some point during the match. That brings in the "locomotion" concept (the name of the song by the lady in the photo in hint 1).

My opinion. I'm really just saying this so that I get bragging rights if I'm in any way correct.

except that you weren't the first to suggest either, although I must say I do not recall anyone putting both in one post.