[FRC Blog] Kickoff Broadcast and Game Hint Redux

[Electronica1]

Originally Posted by rahulbekal

The first hint is
"8234/57, 61126/1963, 62326/15806"
3/4/82 is Landon Donovan's birthday and he had 57 assists in MLS.
1/26/61 is Wayne Gretzky's birthday and had 1963 assists in NHL.
3/26/62 is John Stockton's birthday and had 15806 assists in NBA

The second hint
Steve Ralston, born 6-14-74, holds the MLS record for assists: 135.

Wayne Gretzky, born 1-26-61, holds NHL record for career assists: 1963.

John Stockton, born 3-26-62, holds the NBA assists record: 15806.

The only difference is that FIRST GDC realized that Ralston had more assists than Donovan, so had to change the clue.

So it is baseball because that is the only sport that has assists that they did not list (well that and water polo but I think baseball makes more sense)

[kk_4849]

Originally Posted by Electronica1

So it is baseball because that is the only sport that has assists that they did not list (well that and water polo but I think baseball makes more sense)

I agree. A hockey game would be too close to Lunacy.

[Scott_4140]

Originally Posted by kk_4849

Has anybody figured out the significance of the poem?

The Limerick seems to refer to the clarifications in the number clue.

The data format change from Year-Month-Day to Month-Year-Day. They put it in a format more commonly used in the United States.

Changing from "/" to ":" also helps to show a relationship vs. an operand.

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by malanis

Woody just posted this huge thing on coopertition for this year. thought id throw that out

Originally Posted by thursam

One of my teachers always says that there is no such thing as a coincidence.

Coopertition is one of the core tenets of FIRST, not (necessarily) a game element.

http://www.usfirst.org/aboutus/gracious-professionalism

Also, **Woodie.

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Editing, because I had something to add as I continued reading the thread.

Anything that isn't released AS A HINT isn't worth analyzing. As Frank said in his post, you're all trying to hard. "There are no game clues in this photo" means THERE ARE NO GAME CLUES IN THIS PHOTO. Focus on the actual hints released and not on the peripheral social media posts. (Especially those not posted by actual FIRST accounts...Lookin' at you, @FakeGDC!)

For the most part, FIRST's social media accounts are run by separate staff from FRC/Game Design - the posts like the kickoff-filming photo and the limerick are for fun, not to throw people off or add more things to analyze to the already-ridiculous frenzy on CD.

Exhibit A:

Originally Posted by kk_4849

Has anybody figured out the significance of the poem?

It's a twitter post. It's not a hint.

[Tom Line]

3 Separate zones on the field. Robots may not cross zones. Dividers separate the zones to prevent robot passage, but allow the game pieces to move between zones, very similar to breakaway.

And these:

http://www.fatbraintoys.com/toy_comp...FYg-MgodYiQA_Q

[atucker4072]

Originally Posted by Libby K

Coopertition is one of the core tenets of FIRST, not (necessarily) a game element.

http://www.usfirst.org/aboutus/gracious-professionalism

Also, **Woodie.

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Editing, because I had something to add as I continued reading the thread.

Anything that isn't released AS A HINT isn't worth analyzing. As Frank said in his post, you're all trying to hard. "There are no game clues in this photo" means THERE ARE NO GAME CLUES IN THIS PHOTO. Focus on the actual hints released and not on the peripheral social media posts. (Especially those not posted by actual FIRST accounts...Lookin' at you, @FakeGDC!)

For the most part, FIRST's social media accounts are run by separate staff from FRC/Game Design - the posts like the kickoff-filming photo and the limerick are for fun, not to throw people off or add more things to analyze to the already-ridiculous frenzy on CD.

Exhibit A:



It's a twitter post. It's not a hint.

I also think it is funny that people are still thinking there is something to do with Dr . Who. The blog post clearly said there is nothing involving Dr . Who.

[Abhishek R]

Originally Posted by atucker4072

I also think it is funny that people are still thinking there is something to do with Dr . Who. The blog post clearly said there is nothing involving Dr . Who.

Wasn't very clear. His message keeps repeating, so don't know if Dr Who is a hint or not until you find the limit of the function at the end of the repeating series.

Looks like the clue takes some calculus to solve.

[mrmummert]

For those of you who think this might be hockey based....there are pucks made for playing on carpet....

http://www.thesimtecstore.com/thecar...oublepack.aspx

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by mrmummert

For those of you who think this might be hockey based....there are pucks made for playing on carpet....

http://www.thesimtecstore.com/thecar...oublepack.aspx

Can you not see 3 posts ahead of yours, or am I just imagining it?

[atucker4072]

We still need to focus on the assist part because it is the closest thing we have. What sports are there assists in? Who is the all time assist leader out of any sport?

[nicholsjj]

Originally Posted by kk_4849

Has anybody figured out the significance of the poem?

My method was to "simply" google the rhyming words +hockey to connect with my guess of hockey,mentioned in an earlier post in the thread, but I think Libby is right on this one.

I would guess that the game is divided into three hockey zones, by some obstacle, that each member of the individual alliance has to stay in for the main portion of the match or occur an "off-sides" technical foul. I'm guessing it will be a lot like breakway as far as the auto and main game go. Teams will probably not be able to "collect and shoot" the game pieces like the last two years. I think that the end game will be a lot like Rack n roll such that each zone having a lifted robot will receive bonus points and the middle being "somewhat" like 2012, no sure what but something will change a bit. For eliminations having two lifted robots will be even more bonus points.
I'm going to laugh at how wrong I am after kickoff, but it is fun to speculate.

[thursam]

Originally Posted by Gregor

Do you seriously think FakeGDC released anything useful?

EDIT: and there goes my promise to myself to not post in this thread.

FakeGDC has released some legitimate hints in the past.
And would you really put it past FIRST to NOT do something like FakeGDC?

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by thursam

FakeGDC has released some legitimate hints in the past.

Like?

[Abhishek R]

I would be somewhat disappointed to have a Breakaway-like field. I like the open spaces with fast moving robots (2011, 2013 come to mind) much better. It just feels very limiting with these kind of barriers and obstructive to a game.

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by thursam

FakeGDC has released some legitimate hints in the past.
And would you really put it past FIRST to NOT do something like FakeGDC?

Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope nope. Not even a little bit.

FakeGDC is not a FIRST account. FIRST only puts official releases through @FIRSTweets, @FRCteams (and other program accounts) and the FRC blog.

Seriously, stop.