2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

[aztech75]

Originally Posted by IndySam

Remember the history with these hints and baseball.

Who is a famouse #5 and what did he do?

The game must be based on reggie bush... sumthin with footballs hehe

[woody]

In the second "Short Circuit" movie Johnny Five parachutes out of an office building... Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, its a 125 pound flying robot!

As for the stop light thing, that hint from Atlanta/grand rapids might be plausible... There will be lights made with red green and blue neons.. The only problem is these lights could then be used to make just about any color you can imagine... So teams will have to track an almost infinite number of colors!

Inner tubes: Inner tubes have been used before, if I remember correctly. The background in the hint looks like water. And Dave posted that crazy water scene a while back. So maybe theres some credibility to the ring shaped game piece idea...

The quote from Dave's signature is from a comic author, if i remember correctly. The fantastic four was a comic.. So again there might be some credibility there.. Or maybe the GDC is just anticipating a whole lot of robots engulfed in flames.

One last one. As mentioned much earlier, maybe its a reference to the five of diamonds in cards. Perhaps we'll be using round disk shaped objects to score?

[j_howard61]

I think Joe DiMaggio, or "the Yankee Clipper", was number five for the Yankees. But what does that have to do with anything?

[Goober!!!]

All I have to say is "Speed Racer"???

So maby the game has to deal a lot with speedness in the game?

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by j_howard61

I think Joe DiMaggio, or "the Yankee Clipper", was number five for the Yankees. But what does that have to do with anything?

I think a more likely guess in that vane of thinking would be third base.

[dshinton]

how about 5 robots per session. 2 on one alliance, 2 on another, and a "rogue" robot?

[Cody Carey]

Do they make steel Krispy Kremes?

[Michael Leicht]

Does Diamond Plate Rust underwater?

[Cody Carey]

Originally Posted by punkrawker303

Does Diamond Plate Rust underwater?

Not if it is aluminum.

[MajorHamlet]

lol what a clue.

i bet even they don't know what they're trying to say.

5 can mean anything....5 player-each-team match?

Metal floor?

blue background(?)

wow they should give us some real hints...

[Arkorobotics]

Robots can be crazy at times, inner tubes can pop.

But the inner tube idea is not to shabby. I like the idea where it might be the amount of points you get "5", and that plate, tube, object whatever you want to call it, is an element.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Sometimes I find it easier to look at what something IS NOT to figure out what it is:

IS NOT:

• 5 robots on the field. There's enough of a problem with teams getting matches in now, and with all the new rookies this would make things worse.
• A reference to a prior years game. There are very few people left in FIRST who can think back that many years. Then again, there is a history section on the FIRST page

In another note, I see the same 3 colored "stop light" as I did in the bannana hint.




Does anyone else see the same?

[ZZII 527]

Just throwing it out there: the relative size of the diamonds indicates that if it is some kind of platform it may only be large enough for one robot. (But of course there may be 5 of them...musical chairs at the end for bonus points perhaps?)

[Tetraman]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

In another note, I see the same 3 colored "stop light" as I did in the bannana hint.




Does anyone else see the same?

NICE FIND!!

[Mike Starke]

I honestly don't think that the diamond plate has anything to do with the game. I think that the 5 and the diamond plate are from kickoff when they cylce through the sponsors, and then they finally give the countdown. So
I think that more clues are to come.... with a 4 being on the next one... maybe a riddle for the last one?