2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

[Ericgehrken]

I think the game will involve moving boxes because there is a number 5 in the hint and there was five days left until Christmas and Christmas involves moving boxes (presents).

[Cody Carey]

Based on a bit of data that I have no Idea the purpose of, I have decided that something is going to happen to the picture at 6:06 today.

[Chief Samwize]

Originally Posted by Cody C

Based on a bit of data that I have no Idea the purpose of, I have decided that something is going to happen to the picture at 6:06 today.

Not to be rude but what info and how do you figure that out, I want to know things too ...

[Cody Carey]

Originally Posted by Chief Samwize

Not to be rude but what info and how do you figure that out, I want to know things too ...

Like I said, I have absolutely no Idea what "Expires" means, but It looks interesting.

[whitetiger0990]

Originally Posted by Cody C

Like I said, I have absolutely no Idea what "Expires" means, but It looks interesting.

Expires is when the cache of the image on your computer is removed.

Now, the image is a JPEG, using JFIF standard 1.01 (which is not uncommon). From what I see, there is no embedded thumbnail. Nothing pops out when I view it in a hex. There is nothing human readable in the non-binary parts of the file. (besides the JFIF header)

In the picture itself, from what I can tell, the background is indeed mostly blue and gray (no surprise there). The plate is mostly red, green, and yellow. The '5' is made up of dark grays. (ranging from close to #0A0A0A to #0D0D0D). And unless there is some fancy steganography stuff, I don't think there is anything -literally- hidden in the image.

But I bet someone out there will think that the red,yellow,green, and blue represent 'targets' of some sort which a camera will have to detect and do something accordingly. Perhaps there is a 5th color too. But I doubt it. =p It'd have to be a purple... it's the only distinct enough color left that a camera would be able to pick up (from what I believe, someone disagree?)

EDIT: whoops, messed up my hex codes for the colors, fixed.

[hallk]

I'm having trouble posting the image, but if you look at the clue in chrome, it definately looks like a water game.

[Bcahn836]

My $0.02 with the whole 5 thing, for one i don't think it has anything to do with the number of robots on the field of play. With the amount of teams entered growing every year it will be almost impossible to shrink the # of teams on the field. However as mentioned many times before i think 5 will refer to the number of scoring areas or scoring objects on the field.

[CE Mexican]

Hey guys its me again, I was screwing around with the clue in photo shop, and this is what I came up with. To the right of the plate there is something that looks like a face, with what to me looks like a set of pit crew head phones on. My father then looked at the pic and said that the plate almost looks like a number plate from a racing vehicle.

[Chief Samwize]

WIth all these different game ideas the one that appeals to me the most is the hockey game. Imagine 6 robots chasing around a circular object on a slipery surface. there could even be five "pucks". I would love a game like that.

"and team (insert team number here) passes to its team mate team (insert another team number here), one times it, scores!!!

[Brandon Holley]

I Honestly think that the blue background was intended to be nothing but a blue background and i think dave is having some fun with us by putting these little things in there ie: the banana and traffic light.....kudos dave!

[Kyle A]

I give up reading through all of these. Every time i get back on, there are more and more pages of stuff. I can wait the 14 days to find out what the game is going to be. I have seen some good ideas though. Maybe in the next two weeks I'll have enough free time to read all the post.

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by MORT~11

I Honestly think that the blue background was intended to be nothing but a blue background and i think dave is having some fun with us by putting these little things in there ie: the banana and traffic light.....kudos dave!

I disagree, I think there may be things hidden in that background.. 5 things?

You may be right, though.. we'll find out in a couple weeks!

[Atomika]

Originally Posted by MORT~11

I Honestly think that the blue background was intended to be nothing but a blue background and i think dave is having some fun with us by putting these little things in there ie: the banana and traffic light.....kudos dave!

I agree. The blue background is probably just to make people talk about the probability that there will be a water game.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a bunch of random blue swirls.

[Greg Marra]

I doubt that the blue background is just pure chance.

I think FIRST is changing the alliance colors to prevent things like the Red Advantage we have seen in the past. I think the two colors this year will be Blue, and "clear-plastic-blue". That way, neither side gets an advantage.

[Spark Hawk]

You know, I was thinking about the whole "squish meets squash, rise and wash" quote, when I had a thought. "Squish meets squash" makes me think of two things colliding, and "rise and wash" makes me think of said things recoiling from the impact, and possibly getting splashed. When I put those together, I got... BUMPER BOATS! Now that could be interesting, but I'm not sure how it would play as a FIRST game, but still, it could be fun...