2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

[Andrew Schuetze]

Could the name of the game be

Take Five

If so, a game based upon a robotic light theater such as the one created at UT-Austin would make for some crazy wild autonomuos scripting trying to follow these lights.

Take5 feature on Robotic Lights

Low Res Movie of the robotic light theatre

[colin340]

I bet in 3 day game hint 2 will come and it will be the # 4

15 /5 =3 ???

[Rob2713g]

Could 5 be a path or a trough. Remember Dave Lavery's other hints, such as this one?

[1086VEX]

i also see rings surrounding the dimond plate circle, maybe ripples, just another posible water hint

~Alex~

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

or... 500LB WEIGHT LIMIT????

-q

No. The shipping rules released the other day clearly stated the crate could weigh no more than 400 lbs.

Originally Posted by raiofsunshine

According to Wikipedia, the fifth state to ratify the constitution was Connecticut, but I have no idea what that could do with the game...

Where's this game get it's inspiration?
FROM DA CUTTT!!!!

Originally Posted by TubaMorg

ROBO-POOL!!!

Pool Yes, but not the kind you are thinking.

I'm waiting for the other hint pics to be released, and guessing one will have a Large 2 on a diamond plate piece and an Orange background.


By the way: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...3&postcount=10

That is a round object with diamond plate on the bottom. Just something to ponder. VEX game influence maybe?

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schuetze

Could the name of the game be Take Five

If so, a game based upon a robotic light theater such as the one created at UT-Austin would make for some crazy wild autonomuos scripting trying to follow these lights.

Take5 feature on Robotic Lights

Low Res Movie of the robotic light theatre

good ole UT - Austin

[Sislith]

I don't know. Looks like team colors though.

[thegathering]

Originally Posted by Sislith

I don't know. Looks like team colors though.

I see blue, red, and yellow.

[Arkorobotics]

I went "spotlighting" through my computer, and look at what I found! I was talking to Dave when the game was released in 2006, and this is what he said...

I also discovered how bad my grammer was back then.

[Horman Havoc]

After extensive searching and thought provoking questions to all we have come to the conclusion that a wonderful substance instead of water will be used. The answer contains 5 letters and is blue...

JELL-O because its Alive like Johhny #5!

[htrajan]

if you look closely, it's clear that they aren't reffering to water (being that such a condition is very hard to build robots for). the wisps of blue "force" are juxtaposed with black space. looks like pneumatic will be used to hold up 5 platforms or something...

[iceman]

I was thinking of a blue light that you can track with five manhole like items on the field that you lift in order to score a goal.

[JaneYoung]

I really like the 5.
5,4,3,2,1 - blast off.

I really like that....

[Tetraman]

Ok...Here we go.

The field is split into two sides, red and blue. split between a type of field obstruction like a ramp or stairs.

On each side are three towers of large tube rings labled 5 to 1, shrinking in size/similar in size, stacked in three towers. The tube rings are colored red and blue and are stacked on opposite sides of the field.

Ready set go, aliances try to move the color rings to their side of the field and put them in order. A ring on the color field recieves 1 point.

If ring 1 is stacked on top or below ring 2, that team gives 5 ponts. If ring 3 is on top or on bottom of 2, 5 extra points, 4 similar 5 more, 5 similar 5 more, making a total of 20 for the stack, 5 more for the rings on color, 75 possible total for each side for three stacks...

Rings that touch on the side of each other of similar number recieve 2 points if the ring touches another. So if a 2 touches 2, thats 2 extra points, if 2 touches 2 and that 2 touches the third 2, thats 4 points. If 2 touches 2 touches 2 touches the other 2, thats 6 points.

So if each three stack touches each other so each stack touches the other two, thats 30 additional points, and 105 total points

Plus 25 for robots doing something at the end.

[RyanN]

Please don't flame me, but...
This hint was released Thursday, correct... five days before Christmas.
Five days and "5" as a clue leads me to think we all get a very special Christmas present on Monday. Maybe FIRST wants to mess with our head even more this year than any other year. Hopefully it's a good game like last year.

EDIT: I thought of another idea as well. Maybe the game has something to do with Christmas.