2011 Game Hint #1

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by rcmolloy

Off Topic: Is anyone actually more scared than excited for this game?

I'm always afraid of what the GDC will come up with... Their sanity is often questioned...

[Wayne C.]

seems to me that Little EVA would be a space guy term for Extra Vehicular Activity- maybe a short trip outside the field

maybe on a track like a train between the two field gates



of course I could be wrong....

WC

[WhiteShadow1474]

Just to mix things up...

http://www.acronymfinder.com/EVA.html

my favorite one might be the english volleyball association
but that would be similar to overdrive...

[joeweber]

From Wikipeadia

"St. Louis Union Station, a National Historic Landmark, is a passenger train terminal in St. Louis, Missouri. Once the world's largest and busiest train station, "

We assume that when you hear locomaotion you think of trains but some times it is just movement.

If the game is about trains it sure worked out that St. Louis is well known for trains.

Maybe we are pushing goals on tracks that we have to fill and move to different locations, or we have to hook on to objects and connect them into train type segments and than move the train to the finish line.

[rsisk]

Did you know they sell HAAGEN DAZ at PENN station where LOCOMOTION also occurs and according to Twitter, Chris HERRING has also been at PENN station. There is too much convergence for it to be just coincidence....

Twitter / Chris Herring: I'm at New York Penn Stati ...
I'm at New York Penn Station (2 Penn Plz, btw 31st St & 33rd St, New York) w ..

[EricH]

Originally Posted by thefro526

I'm always afraid of what the GDC will come up with... Their sanity is often questioned...

Nope, it never is. We all know they don't have much left; it's just a question of how much.

[smurfgirl]

Originally Posted by pandamonium

Could be a yearbook photo and I am thinking it may have been from early 90's some schools still use black and white for yearbook photos. Bill earlier recognized a few teams from being around since the very first year can anyone from those teams see if they ever had this lady on their team?

I think the game is a combo from years past so i am kind of trying to make this clue fit that idea which is probably not good...

I think this could fit well with the 20th anniversary theme... interesting idea

[Chadius012]

Florence Ballard started her movie career in 1964. I found some technological history for that year.

Computer Mouse

Bubble Wrap

Ford Mustang

BASIC code is introduced

VCR Home Video Recorder

IBM's System/360

Bubble wrap sounds important

[Chris is me]

I've used multiple reverse image search tools, looked through everything Florence Ballard along with a multitude of her peers and groupmates, and can't find anything even close to this picture.

We could just focus on the pole and say... hey, that pole looks a lot like FIRST's ubiquitous pole goals from 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2009...

edit: Ooh, nice find David. Here's Wikipedia on her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Eva

[IndySam]

don't have time somebody analyze this, locomotion?

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

[ATannahill]

known by the stage name of Little Eva (after a character from Uncle Tom's Cabin)

Maybe the game has to do with a history reference.

[Kimmeh]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

known by the stage name of Little Eva (after a character from Uncle Tom's Cabin)

Maybe the game has to do with a history reference.

I feel like "The Loco-Motion" is the bigger picture to this.

Then again, the hint comes from the GDC. Anything goes.

[Chadius012]

Maybe the game has to do with a history reference.

Most FRC games have some type of historical reference to them.

Lunacy for the lunar landings, Breakaway for the world cup, etc...

[GarrettF2395]

Whats obvious to me is locomotion. That has got to be the hint we we're supposed to get.
I wonder if the game has to do with robots being required to follow each other like a train. Or having to hall large "cars" of game pieces and deliver them somewhere on the field.
Hmm wonder if there is anything else i'm missing...

[catacon]

Perhaps look at important events from 1943 (when she was born) and 2003 (when she died). First one I noticed from 1943: first ejection seat for an aircraft was used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003