New Game Hint? - Crackerjacks, Haagen-Dazs cups and Diet Coke cans?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by a kenny03

they could... but FIRST isn't that maen...ok wait, changed my mind. (grrr stupid moon rocks!!!) but they have always been around the same footprint size, so why change it that radically? the going green strategy is a nice thing, but its not worth it to change it that much...

Actually, they haven't. In 1992, the robots were smaller than the 2009 control system.

Some other game-changing rule changes: Pre-1998, you could intentionally detach parts. Pre-1999, matches were 1v1v1. Pre-2002, metal on carpet was legal. Pre-2005, matches were 2v2 and robots were 30"x36"x60" (changed from 36"x36"x60"). Pre-2006, you could have wedges on your robot, and bumpers were counted in your size and weight--and you had to develop your own.

As far as the GDC being that mean, at least three of them have the pure evil genius rating, and the rest are simply pure evil. Never take anything for granted, including the ability to use metal on robots and the ability to use threaded fasteners. (One of the GDC actually made comments to this effect on CD. Neither has actually happened...yet.)

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by EricH

Never take anything for granted, including the ability to use metal on robots and the ability to use threaded fasteners. (One of the GDC actually made comments to this effect on CD. Neither has actually happened...yet.)

Going green by saying that we have to build our robots out of wood? Man, that would screw a lot of people over and completely even the playing field :/

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

This was a rule a couple years back. But FIRST doesnt HAVE to give us anything, they could come out and say we have an 18" by 18" by 18" cube we have to fit in, cant expand outside it. Have fun.

That sounds extremely close to VEX/FTC to me (though I don't know much about that program, I could be way off) :/ maybe they would do it if they hadn't just given us a fancy new control system to use.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Karibou

That sounds extremely close to VEX/FTC to me (though I don't know much about that program, I could be way off) :/ maybe they would do it if they hadn't just given us a fancy new control system to use.

It should sound like VEX/FTC that is where I got the dimensions. But you know in '92 the control system was off board, nothing says we can't have tethered robots.

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Karibou

Going green by saying that we have to build our robots out of wood?

Who said anything about wood? The materials list will be papyrus and cornstarch. Have fun!

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Who said anything about wood? The materials list will be papyrus and cornstarch. Have fun!

Can we use water?

[NorviewsVeteran]

Can we use water?

Only hard water.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by NorviewsVeteran

Only hard water.

With extra set aside for that plop plop fizz fizz moment that is hovering, near, and loaded.

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by NorviewsVeteran

Only hard water.

...so ice, then?
ICE GAME 2010.
The polar ice caps are melting. Find a way to stop it.

I've never watched Monty Python, so whatever reference was made just flew over my head at the speed of light.

Jane - Hmm..super expensive doggie chew toys? You would find something to do with them

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Karibou

I've never watched Monty Python, so whatever reference was made just flew over my head at the speed of light.

Short version (for those that haven't watched):

King Arthur is recruiting for the Round Table, and stops by a village where a woman is accused of being a witch. The local officer for the job requests proof. ("She turned me into a newt!" "A newt?" "I got better." and "Well, we did do the nose." are some memorable lines here...) Anyway, he asks, "What do you do with witches?" to which the crowd answers, "Burn them!" "What else do you burn?" "Wood." This leads to a logical chain leading to the conclusion that the accused must be a witch if she weighs the same as a (rather large) duck. They use the largest scales in town for the job.

[Mr. Pockets]

Originally Posted by NorviewsVeteran

And Kara, the reference probably went closer to the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow.

African or European? Finally the references are for a movie that I've actually seen.

Originally Posted by EricH

1. A game hint is a Holy Grail that we will search long and hard for.
2. Even when we get close (or not), we STILL won't get it!

He's probably also hiding the game rules in the castle of UUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Mr. Pockets

African or European? Finally the references are for a movie that I've actually seen.


He's probably also hiding the game rules in the castle of UUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH

No, the beast of AAAAAAAAARRGH doesn't have a castle. Though why he has a killer rabbit protecting the cave I don't know.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Karibou

...so ice, then?
ICE GAME 2010.
The polar ice caps are melting. Find a way to stop it.

I've never watched Monty Python, so whatever reference was made just flew over my head at the speed of light.

Jane - Hmm..super expensive doggie chew toys? You would find something to do with them

This

Originally Posted by NorviewsVeteran

Please remember where we are, in the middle of a happy place where Monty Python references do not go unnoticed, two left shoes just won't do, and hard water is apparently alcoholic ice?

And Kara, the reference probably went closer to the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow.

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Originally Posted by Mr. Pockets

African or European? Finally the references are for a movie that I've actually seen.


He's probably also hiding the game rules in the castle of UUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH

Is

Originally Posted by EricH

No, the beast of AAAAAAAAARRGH doesn't have a castle. Though why he has a killer rabbit protecting the cave I don't know.

Crazy

No, really, y'all is crazy! (Yes, I used y'all just to spite Dave)

[Akash Rastogi]

Nobody's taking me seriously?

I swear we have to battle transformers too.

[mikeleslie]

So we need to do the math here. Kara, you're the design lead, figure it out . If we take the force in newts of an unladen African swallow + 1/2 the bouyancy of the floating wood - the weight of the witch (eating ice cream)
I think a cracker jack answer here would include the phrase "I got better"...btw, perhaps for the qualifying matches they should just ask teams to "bring out your dead".

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by EricH

Short version (for those that haven't watched):

King Arthur is recruiting for the Round Table, and stops by a village where a woman is accused of being a witch. The local officer for the job requests proof. ("She turned me into a newt!" "A newt?" "I got better." and "Well, we did do the nose." are some memorable lines here...) Anyway, he asks, "What do you do with witches?" to which the crowd answers, "Burn them!" "What else do you burn?" "Wood." This leads to a logical chain leading to the conclusion that the accused must be a witch if she weighs the same as a (rather large) duck. They use the largest scales in town for the job.

That's what Google told me

Now, back to the game...