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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #3
First Corps of Cadets, which was founded in the Revolutionary War-era. Military units had nicknames before they were given numeric designations. The First Corps of Cadets was the military company for Boston during the American Revolution. Today, they are known as the 211 MP (Military Police) Battalion.
I found that after a google search. I also found out that a few days after 911, the First Corps of Cadets Veterens started a fundraiser. ther sold stickers that said "for support" on them for 2.00 each. I dont know how this could fit in with the game though. The only thing I can think of is a different way of enforcing the rules during gameplay. Joey |
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Time for some more crazy speculation.
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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #3
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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #3
I believe that the game will consist of stacking up boxes, then stacking pyramids on top of those boxes to cap them. THe obelisques gave me the idea in copley square
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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #3
Say Dave, isn't it past your bedtime? Big day tomorrow, and whatnot?
![]() Anyhow, I may as well put in my annual "<12 hours before kickoff" game prediction. And there's really only one thing all three clues have been telling us. The abnormally square piece of paper in the first game hint, the coordinates pointing us to a "globe cafe" in the second hint, tetras in the third clue: whatever you guys are doing will involve the first logo in some way. Whether or not you'll be manipulating cubes, tetrahedrons, & spheres all at once into a single goal for differing point values/multipliers (which BTW, has always figured into my "dream game" in some fashion), or whether it'll be some variety of stacking or putting different-shaped objects into other-shaped goals, somehow, my prediction is that something square-ish, something circle-ish, & something triangular will be involved. And all the clues link up too (Copely Square, and the FIRST Corps of Cadets Veterans [hurdling tetras] located in said square)! And since this is FIRST we're talking about, there's probably going to be a choice to make at the end between continuing what you're doing, or scoring secondary points. Say, what if the end game is another autonomous period where that IR receiver helps you perform your last point scoring maneuvers... Finally since I can, I'll step into WATER GAME!!1! territory for just a second: what good is a globe without it being 70% water? I kid, of course. |
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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #3
Dave must have just finished the game animation, and decided to take a breather from animating
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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #3
First, I should correct myself - Kick-off is today!
Then I just wanted to take my last shot at this. I took to heart Dave's somewhat lengthy (but worthwhile) discussion on the importance of knowing what precision you have, as well as what precision you need. Revisiting the "where, exactly, is this spot?" question, I recalled that the first people who located the spot (on Google, I think) varied the input and got the same result. This means that has a significant (if undetermined) inaccuracy. I figured where the spot should be independently, using topo map images, and had estimated that the answer might be good to about 30FT. The closest thing to that spot, BTW, is a statue of Philips Brooks (not Copely), which is along the north side of Trinity Church. Given the unknown accuracy of Google, I'm going with this spot now. My first estimate was that the bearing headed toward the burger joints from there, but looking more carefully at it, it looks more like it's really across from a subway stop. If I still thought it was looking at the Burger King, I would confidently conclude that the clue meant "Stack Attack" (meaning that elements of that previous game would return this time). All I can do is speculate that my errors are a bit worse than I thought, and that #2 really does just mean "Stack Attack" (plus a hint of better floating-point computing this time). Hint #1 was probably just so we wouldn't freak out about this new equipment that seems complicated at first, but isn't really such a big deal after you sit down and look at it. They must really want to make sure we succeed at employing it. #3 just seems to be another reference to aspects of previous games being revisited (with a new twist, I'm sure). So far we have a combo of Stack Attack (the Burger King campaign), Triple Play (the tetras), and Aim High (something airborne - "hurdling"). Sounds like fun! |
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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #3
Dave's just having fun now. Only 3 days left and he still throws curveballs.
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It's not just Dave, it is the entire GDC. Go GDC!
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This just made my winter xmas/vacation as a mentor
great gift dave ![]() |
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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #3
Does this mean im not getting my footballs?
I think im gonna cry... ![]() |
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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #3
I was starting to clean out my garage during the break. I got to all of the tetra peices and thought, 'I might as well keep these because FIRST might re-use them again.'
Now I see this and I am glad I did not recycle all of them. -Jim |
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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #3
ha^ i have one in my attic...may need to pull it out
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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Game Hint #3
Could be something like:
Hurdling implies to me that we are jumping or skipping a task. So if veteran teams were to skip triple play, the next game would have been Aim High. I don't have a clue as to what the vets have to do with anything but that was my interpretation. Or what was the 5th game. Skipping the 4th game would mean the 5th game would be next. 5th game was hexagon havoc. Vet hurdling FIRST tetra. The fourth game was ramp n roll. Vets hurdling ramp n roll. Veterans skipping ramp n roll. Veterans jumping over ramp n roll... jumping off of a ramp... any ideas? just some thoughts. Hurdling could be worded as a redo. What if they are combining FIRST's first four games... That would be Maize Craze, Rug Race, Tower Power, and Ramp n Roll. I don't even know where to start with that one. I know nothing about any game before 01. Last edited by AndyB : 02-01-2008 at 21:50. |
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