pic: 2007 Game Hint?

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

wow ed you were right for once

Even a broken clcok is right twice a day.
I heard that in a song.

[Imajie]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Even a broken clcok is right twice a day.
I heard that in a song.

Unless its a digital clock that reads military time

[Graham Donaldson]

Originally Posted by Imajie

Unless its a digital clock that reads military time

Then it's right once a day- .

Originally Posted by dlavery

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

Which April? '05 or '06? I haven't checked, but based on the discussion, I'm assuming we never did. But did we ever find out?

[AndyB]

My boss just came up with something:

What if the drivers are looking through distorted plexiglass for all or part of the match.

[Chaos Killa]

Hey i couldnt help but notice that there is a fourth fish hidden in the robot, and there is also a part of the color spectrum hidden in the robot havnt decided what this means yet but i figured i'd throw it out there.

[JohnMorenski]

This game is going to involve fishing for something like a crane game, my proof?
1. That fish is an angler fish which can mean you can be "angling" for something
2 There are fish that are there which might imply that we must be "fishing" for something
3 The water is just to throw you off, there is no way they can have a water game, try setting up a water field, and not have any leaks, imagine if they have water and it does leak? Water is too complicated
4 The banana might just be for color, maybe what we are picking up is yellow, the fish are all also white and yellow,
mabe this confusion with the 2005 game might be another hint? referring to the tetra or triangle, mabe we are picking up yellow balls from a triangle hopper like this past vex game
something else, fish are slippery, water can be slippery, bananas are slippery

I wanna hear what everyone thinks of this, I think these ideas aren't that far-fetched

[Graham Donaldson]

Originally Posted by JohnMorenski

This game is going to involve fishing for something like a crane game, my proof?
1. That fish is an angler fish which can mean you can be "angling" for something
2 There are fish that are there which might imply that we must be "fishing" for something
3 The water is just to throw you off, there is no way they can have a water game, try setting up a water field, and not have any leaks, imagine if they have water and it does leak? Water is too complicated
4 The banana might just be for color, maybe what we are picking up is yellow

I wanna hear what everyone thinks of this, I think these ideas aren't that far-fetched

Not a bad idea. Makes sense. Maybe, since we've used triangles (tetras) 2 years ago (which, by the way, would be perfect for this game) and circles (poof balls) last year, maybe we'll be using squares this year (boxes)? However, the devil's advocate in me is saying that the game seems too similar to two years ago, but pickup systems could be different with boxes and not tetras. Just playing devil's advocate...

[falconmaster]

I am leaning toward agreeing that the water is to throw us off. It would be extremely difficult to have a water based game without changing venues. There is an event though that is water based! www.h2orobots.org Check it out! We want as many FIRST teams as possible to participate. I do think that the game clue is meant to through us off. The distorted view for the drivers does seema like the most plausable one to expect. I guess we will have to just wait and see!

[JaneYoung]

This may have been said somewhere in one of our threads regarding this image and all the many clues it holds for us. Regarding the distortion of the image that we see - in some of the threads, some have suggested that the drivers will be looking through distorted glass or maybe their field of vision will be somehow distorted.

Being the bean counter that I am, I don't see how the GDC would want to do that. FRC is expensive. The robot is expensive. And, the robot has been designed carefully with strategy involved by engineers, teachers, and students. No one would want to see it damaged because of vision being distorted or limited. Also, I would think the frustration levels of the drive teams and coaches would significantly increase if their ability to see the field and robots clearly was compromised.

That's what I have been thinking.

That said, something is distorted. We could be looking through something in the image.
Maybe a lens?

I'm done, I promise.
Jane

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Jane

..., something is distorted. We could be looking through something in the image.
Maybe a lens?

There will be a large, light-distorting object in the middle of the field.

[Eric W. Jones]

I'm too lazy to pull out a thick book form one, so from dictionary.com:

"Distort:
1. to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
2. to give a false, perverted, or disproportionate meaning to; misrepresent: to distort the facts.
3. Electronics. to reproduce or amplify (a signal) inaccurately by changing the frequencies or unequally changing the delay or amplitude of the components of the output wave."

maybe we've been going at this from the wrong angle...

[Dylan]

I hope Dave realizes that we all expect a FULL explanation of this clue's relavence to the '07 game after kickoff (if it's not obvious, of course)


EDIT: What happened to the spell check?

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Dylan

I hope Dave realizes that we all expect a FULL explanation of this clue's relavence to the '07 game after kickoff (if it's not obvious, of course)


EDIT: What happened to the spell check?

Uhhhmmm, what if I don't understand the relevance?

-dave



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[Billfred]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Uhhhmmm, what if I don't understand the relevance?

-dave



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We'll settle for a full and accurate explanation from any of the folks on stage.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Billfred

We'll settle for a full and accurate explanation from any of the folks on stage.

I'll settle for any entertaining nonsense that Dave can think up on the spot.