2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

[yodameister]

Originally Posted by RyanN

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

I sure hope not. I've had enough Christmas for one year.

[Tri_Lam]

humm somone mentioned a head in the pic. after closely examining the picture i noticed there was definatly a pic of a head its mid right of pic(i might see 2). my guess is that the blue bacground is really an animation probly from studiomax that as said before a minimized animation/flash im not at my main comp right now so i cant further observe with my paint shop pro anyone have any comments about this??

[irishninja]

I'm leaning to the baseball tie. Perhaps, you can only move to 2nd base when there is a red light, 3rd when there is a blue light, and home when there is a green light? Or some combination.

The field will remain rectangular.

Colour change in autonomous? Perhaps.

The game piece will be torus'...tori?

No water game.

[Donut]

Originally Posted by AndyB

i sincerly appologize if this has already been posted but, look at a 5 of diamonds playing card.

it is laid out like so:



What if the diamonds are goals.

Originally Posted by Joel J.

I really like that idea! A big center goal in the middle, and low goals at the corners.. if not for 2007, then maybe for beyond.

I like it as well. This would be a very nice field layout and would make for some pretty good gameplay. It reminds me of 2005, just with half the goals removed.

[bobl]

Originally Posted by 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.

Maybe 5 gold rings?

[chris31]

Originally Posted by bobl

Maybe 5 gold rings?

With one ring to rule them all.

PS: i just finished watching LOTR

[Sindegen]

Hey guys... Quick thing I just found out... I was just trying to be dumb but I actually found something. And it rgards the fish.

I was on google, and I was looking at diamondbacks and all that came up was about the MLB league. Then to be an idiot I searched diamondfish (not knowing that there was actually a diamond fish). Well I came across a Monodactylus argenteus or diamond fish, and I came across something else. It also "supposedly" shines a bunch of colors of the rainbow (not like that matters). But then what are some colors of the rainbow? Blue, Yellow, Red,Green, and maybe purple? But I just found it ironic that this search turned out to be the two team colors, the color all the robots go after, and I suppose the yellow that I have read on some posts they have seen as well. I wouldn't be so sure about the purple though.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Sindegen

I wouldn't be so sure about the purple though.

I can vouch for purple, it is a very nice color.

[ElectronJohn]

Just joined Chief Delphi.

I have been reading through this thread and discussing things with my Coworker. (We are both mentors for the local team here in Pocatello, Idaho. Team 1569)

Here is our SWAG (Scientific Wild A** Guess) at what the clue is: The picture is a clip out of a digital video presentation. We (the viewers) are looking straight down on a scoring platform that is worth 5 points. Guessing on the "diamond" spacing, the plate appears to be about 20 some-odd inches in diameter. The swirled colored background is simply an artifact of the FIRST video show background.

Conclusions:
1) I would agree with the "Gimme 5" title.
2) The picture is of an actual scoring platform. Which makes it too small for robots to climb on.
3) This is one of many platforms at various heights and diameters for which scoring objects are placed upon. Lower, larger platforms are worth less points.
4) In keeping with FIRST symbols, the square is due this year - so the game pieces are likely cubic in nature.
5) Also, in keeping with FIRST, the 5 point platform may be the most elevated - 6 or 7 feet.
6) Game pieces are relatively small and must be widely available. My guess here is a little mini-milk crate organizer sold at WalMart. Other small cubic organizer containers would probably work too. Two colors would be used - one for each alliance.
7) The contest is to load as many square storage containers onto a platform as possible. The higher and more difficult platforms are the most difficult.
8) The playing field has traditionally been quite simple in its construction, so I bet this year's contest will not be exotic in the field elements.

Or - Maybe the clue is the "lid" of a cone shaped bin. Different heights of cones have different points. There are ports just underneath the lids that allow small cubic storage containers to be placed inside. Each opening is surrounded by a "target" color for the cameras to home in on.

Just my thoughts

EJ

[petek]

5: the number of oceans
That seals it - it has to be a water game! I wonder how we're supposed to make a diamond-plate disk float...

Or, maybe we'll be doing pull-ups again. Look at the number 5 key on a computer keypad - it has a raised bar on it!

5: the number of Platonic Solids. We had the first one in 2005...

Oh, the possibilities are so delightfully endless with a clue so vague!

[woody]

Originally Posted by petek

5: the number of Platonic Solids. We had the first one in 2005...

Oh, the possibilities are so delightfully endless with a clue so vague!

Im going with the dodecahedron... It is made of pentagons after all... Plus the killer bees just have a thing for dodeca-anything.

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by petek

5: the number of Platonic Solids. We had the first one in 2005...

Oh, the possibilities are so delightfully endless with a clue so vague!

Ohh I like this one, Octahedral game pieces would be very interesting, and difficult to manipulate....

[pandamonium]

pentathlon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentathalon

read this article and it all makes sense. if i am right this is going to be one complicated game.

[petek]

Originally Posted by pandamonium

pentathlon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentathalon

read this article and it all makes sense. if i am right this is going to be one complicated game.

Robots with javelins! Yikes! No wonder FIRST is stessing safety glasses so early!

[Chuck Glick]

Well there are 2 things we should be able to rule out.

1. There most likely won't be 5 different game pieces because then you get lots of bots with the same manipulator.

2. water+electricity=bad


From looking at other posts though, the merry-go-round thing http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...3&postcount=10
looks possible, I mean, they can be small and they would add to the dificulty of movement (mecanum anyone?) and medicine balls aren't too expensive and do come in the 5 pound size... but I'm not gonna go crazy trying to figure out the clues, I'll just wait till the 6th.