2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

[Nathan Pell]

I did some googling on the shovel issues; I thought this was interesting since last year's hint had a musical reference to it.

"Pank Shovel's music is as unique as its members. Their sound is a Punk Rock/Hip-Hop hybrid that crosses boundaries and challenges the genre's traditional misogynistic stereotypes. Their songs strong lyrical content describes real life experiences with childlike imagination."

So could the "Shovel's show" mean Pank Shovel and one his songs?

[Alex Burman]

maybe we are looking at the idea of game piece the wrong way
maybe its new kit parts
i was doing this Google image search

I came across this
maybe there will be new a new kit motor. since snow blowers could be considered mechanical shovels.

With that in mind, we can now look to the last line and see that the camera is back. Because of the and used, it combines the idea with the previous idea. If you take my first idea as truth then the 2nd line would be referencing the kit of parts also. Since it refers to seeing green, it implies the camera.

Now you may think that because the and is used that it is referring to just one thing but think that since it is broken up over 2 lines its referring to 2 things.

[killerofkiller]

Dave Lavery's latest Away msg:

"With a one-on-one-on-one-on-one-on-one game it would be really easy..."

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by killerofkiller

Dave Lavery's latest Away msg:

"With a one-on-one-on-one-on-one-on-one game it would be really easy..."

so i guess the question is...are his hints reliable? Save for the offical game hint, i'd be skeptical about anything he says...
on the other hand, this is so vague (in typical Dave fashion) that it might just be true...DARN YOU DAVE!!!!

[TheDrWho22]

Just a thing about the pool noodle ideas....

Remember in the '04 Game. The goals had pool-noodle-like-things that made the goals for the balls to be thrown or dropped into. Maybe the pasta is in reference to the goal. Maybe you have to get past the noodle like things to get to the goals (tangle it up).

[Shlomi32]

we just find out several things:
1) Montana is Joe Montana, his first winning session was at 1989, like the first FIRST game. he scored 34 sec before the end, 1989 is 17 years ago, meaning, 17*2=34.
we think that it will be like this:
a. 17 sec auto
b. normal play (don't know how much)
c. another 17 sec auto
2)shovel's show - maybe a hard game with a lots of tackling like Joe Montana did??...

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by Shlomi32

we just find out several things:
1) Montana is Joe Montana, his first winning session was at 1989, like the first FIRST game. he scored 34 sec before the end, 1989 is 17 years ago, meaning, 17*2=34.
we think that it will be like this:
a. 17 sec auto
b. normal play (don't know how much)
c. another 17 sec auto
2)shovel's show - maybe a hard game with a lots of tackling like Joe Montana did??...

wow, interesting....love the line of thought there...and who knows, i might just be correct

***
on another note...in regard to the "GPS" debate, i remember seeing a booth for a type of indoor differential GPS as ROBONEXUS 2004...i'm gonna see if i can dig up the info. I don't believe FIRST would do this due to the problems with cost and field setup (if i recall they're domes attached to the ceiling)

[Ryan Foley]

consider the following:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...97&postcount=1

Dave usually spends his vacation working on the game animation, perhaps this is a twisted image of a scene from the animation.

interesting blue line, especially the bend near the top of the page......

maybe "5" has nothing to do to with the number of robots, but something else on the field perhaps?

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Ryan Foley

consider the following:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...97&postcount=1

Dave usually spends his vacation working on the game animation, perhaps this is a twisted image of a scene from the animation.

interesting blue line, especially the bend near the top of the page......

I'm willing to bet on it being, in whole or in part, from the 2006 field components. This image was composed from a de-goalified version of the 2005 field. (Note the human player placement and the end zone lines.)

While Dave's hobby may involve tormenting us, I don't think he invests that much time in it.

[wojahoitz]

I really hope he doesn't.

[Bill Moore]

Originally Posted by Billfred

I'm willing to bet on it being, in whole or in part, from the 2006 field components. This image was composed from a de-goalified version of the 2005 field. (Note the human player placement and the end zone lines.)

Hockey has a blue line to indicate off-sides. The person with the puck must cross over the line first, or he must pass it to a teammate before the teammate crosses the blue line.
Do we have an "offsides" line this year?

[Pat McCarthy]

Originally Posted by Bill Moore

Hockey has a blue line to indicate off-sides. The person with the puck must cross over the line first, or he must pass it to a teammate before the teammate crosses the blue line.
Do we have an "offsides" line this year?

In past years the lines in the animation were actually the tape lines on the carpet at the competitions. Last year for example the tape was used to indicate the boundry of the 'endzone' and the area in which the human player must stay.

[Arkorobotics]

Tape? Pasta???

3 fish??? why 3?

[amos229]

i dont think they will get rid of alliances just becuase of how greatly gracious professionalism is pushed. as for other things i think the five has nothing to do with # of robots but number of game pieces, it is outside the quotations of the hint remember. i also think that the pasta is refering to those pool noodles and shovle to a log loader.

[Bill Moore]

Originally Posted by Arkorobotics

Tape? Pasta???

3 fish??? why 3?

For that matter, "Why an Angler fish?"