pic: 2007 Game Hint?

[mei-li]

I see fish..O__O .. underwater game?? that would be COOL!! I'd be really happy if this is true!!

[Dan Petrovic]

Fishing happens in the water, fly fishing is another type of fishing.

Maybe there's going to be more projectiles?

I don't know. Everyone will know how to solve the problem if we had to shoot balls again.

[mtaman02]

I have a headache in just thinking about the possibilities of a water game. I guess IFI will be extremely busy trying to make something that relys heavily on electricity into something thats water proof. Talk about a few fried Spikes and Speed Controllers =). As for the Banana on what I like to call baby bot that banana symbolizes that if you can figure out the 2007 game before this years through you can have a banana. =p. Chances are the blue box baby bot is in symbolizes a starting grid, scoring location, soring object load up location <----like in 2005 Where the human players would have to wait for the robot to be completely in its box in order for the human player to get off the mat and safely load the tetra(s) onto their bots. However I could be wrong, I don't think anyone can see what goes on in Daves large mind (not even the therapists he goes to after making our heads hurt from his crazy yet extremely funny hints).


By the way I think that baby bot should have some sick time for himself, Hes been hit and everything else and yet hes the only one getting this torture, stop picking on the small people =)

[YonZ]

no, not underwater but underwater themed.
you can clearly see the traditional carpet texture here, and from the reflection on the back of the bot, you can see that there is some fishy design going around, adding to the theme.
Also there, is a row of colored circles on a mount. I see this as the third coming of CMU, where the bot has to identify from like 6 or however many) different colored lights. (combining the colorful use of the technology in Triple Play -- green vision tetras, and red and yellow reflective triangles under the goals and at autoloaders and the like with the practical light-up technology in Aim High)

[Rohith Surampudi]

Originally Posted by dlavery

p.s. you will find out what the banana is for in April.

Its May 2nd...i want to know what the banana is for...Please

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by rvssnake

Its May 2nd...i want to know what the banana is for...Please

haha, i just noticed that and was going to post about it.

[Nica F.]

ahhh ; now that Nats are over i can actually think about this picture!

[IA-Howitzer]

Our team has been discussing the water game for a while and all I kept thinking of is that there is probably just a water obstacle in the center of the feild (like a river...) which is why the robot is surrounded from its opponents. There must be some kind of dry lanfd, otherwise you cant get your robots on and off the field. So, again, I think there is going to be a river of water dividing the field in two and I also agree that it may be something like capture the flag (apart from the tagging). I think you will have to go to the other side if you really want to score lots of points. Also, thats gonna be a LOT of water to pump into the georgia dome next year...

Regarding the colors, I'm guessing it's three (blue, red, and green) like the hint we were given at nationals about the vision sensing next year.

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by rvssnake

Its May 2nd...i want to know what the banana is for...Please

Just to make sure that I don't slip up and give away too much, are you a-peeling for one clue or a bunch?

-dave

[Alan Anderson]

Teflon field surface!

[ScottM]

Does the blue line represent a barrier of some sort? The robot is on one side facing the fish on the other side.

[Nica F.]

Originally Posted by ScottM

Does the blue line represent a barrier of some sort? The robot is on one side facing the fish on the other side.

the blue line looks like the starting position box for the blue alliance.

[Freddy Schurr]

Carpet / Water Area/ Carpet

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Just to make sure that I don't slip up and give away too much, are you a-peeling for one clue or a bunch?

-dave

We'll settle for as many of the proverbial good clues as possible.

(Dave, you really know how to drive us all bananas.)

[Katie Reynolds]

Remember that whole thing at Nationals about changing light colors? What if, instead of having one light that changed a few colors there was a whole row of lights that lit up at random times (one at a time, of course) ... And looking at the reflection on the back of shovelbot - I see four lights (blue, red, green, yellow) in a row ...