2007 Official FRC Game Hint / Email Blast

[Joel_J]

after reading throuh more than 25 pages of speculation, i beleive i have an accurate summary of whats going on:

first off, i think we cna conclude it is not a water challenge. keep in mind that this is still a competitive game and people get pissed when something happens that mkaes them loose. if there is to be water, then there will be a great deal of inconsistancy to deal with. i dont think i even need to explain why i think the ‘rogue’ robot would be cool but completely NOT GONNA HAPPEN

so here is what is on my sticky note ive been keeping while reading:

-card game theme - (5 of diamonds…)
-step to climb - (the shadow of the circle looks like a step out of a pool)
-platform - (like the step, there is prolly a diamond platofrom somewhere)
-bad crop - puzzle? - (possibly future clues will fit onto this one like a puzzle)
-5 diff height platofroms + steps? - (speaks for itself, kind of)
-50? - (the and the circle makes 50. 50 something i dont know)
-SCREENSHOT - (most likely a cropped screenshot from the animation, -possibly cropped to hide something on the top or bottom of that circle, like it being mounted, and the blue stuff is fuzz to hide the game animation, a human player is barely visible on the right side)
-olympics - (five rings in the olympics? possibly an olympic game theme)
-pool, as in billiards - (that could be a cool game theme, circle looks like pool ball number 5)
-22" in diameter if riges are scaled - (if to scale, the plate would be about this size based on the riges)
-baseball! - (possibly bases activating for points or something? baseball theme quite probabal)
-goals on 4 corners like bb - (more baseball theme, goals on corners + center = 5)
-5 periods - (game play periods, autonomous + 4 more)
-inner tubes - (maybe stacked on poles)
-blue=square - (in the first logo, plus we are overdue for a square challenge - sq, circ, tri, circ, NOW)

thats what i have sumarized, i hope this either enlightens some, or helps others to not have to read quite so thoroughly b4 posting

PS

my personal thoughts: im thinking baseball; with diamond plated weight activated sensors on different sides as bases, points are scored at the end of each period for each of your bases that does NOT have a bot on it. ramps etc to climb over in the middle.

Good stuff…

What about another tangent:

What if the “diamond plate” is actually the moon? five moon? Fifth planet from the sun is jupiter…

what of that?

[Vince_lau]

back to the baseball theme some of you mentioned. Baseball is played on a diamond, home plate has 5 sides, the five is sitting on a circle. In baseball in you have to touch all 3 bases to score or round the bases. So what if the task is you have to do three things (three colour lights, you have to complete on task before going to the next) and touch home plate to score points

blah I don’t know

[Nitroxextreme]

How come nobody ask ME what it is like living with HIM??!?!!

-dave

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Ok…now im sure the “period” has some importance

This is the second time I have seen Dave end his post with a period.

There must be some rhyme or reason…WHY!!!

[raymaniac]

[quote=“Nitroxextreme,post:391,topic:75167”]

How come nobody ask ME what it is like living with HIM??!?!!

-dave

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Ok…now im sure the “period” has some importance

This is the second time I have seen Dave end his post with a period.

There must be some rhyme or reason…WHY!!![/quote]

The reason is to confuse us and cause even more speculation then we already have.

I said this earlier, but dave still has not posted in this thread. The quote was from earlier today, so yes he has been on CD.

Then agian, I’m sure if he did post in this thread it would be just to confuse us even more and the game ideas would get even wierder than they already are.

I’ll bet that just to cause even more speculation, if he did post in this thread, he would only post five times, and I’m sure someone would notice and point it out, resulting in even more unrealilistic guesses and speculations.

[Cody_Carey]

True, and If I’ve noticed one thing about Dave, It’s that he is a tricky little lawn gnome. (figuratively speaking)

[raymaniac]

True, and If I’ve noticed one thing about Dave, It’s that he is a tricky little lawn gnome. (figuratively speaking)

I sense some photoshopping…

[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.

[teh_pwnerer795]

5 in five different categories?? maybe?

also!! …

the type of metal used… is also used on a ship:P

and theres blue around it O… i sense a water game!! lmao

[raymaniac]

I now officially HATE the number 5.

[teh_pwnerer795]

I now officially HATE the number 5.

toaly agree w/ u on that 1 … man i’d hate to have a birthday on the 5th

[raymaniac]

toaly agree w/ u on that 1 … man i’d hate to have a birthday on the 5th

I’m glad I don’t. 15th is pretty close though.

[bear24rw]

Anyone else see the alien face half way up on the right?

[1086VEX]

someone pointed that out several pages ago…
it reminds me of E.T.
i got it!!! we’re using alians for our game piece!!!

i knew id get it eventually…

~Alex~

[raymaniac]

if you Google 5, the 5th result is Dole 5 a day. Maybe the game will have something to do with health, then the banana would make sense. Possible games include…

1. Robots force kids to eat their broccoli (or bananas)
2. Robots make healthy (banana?) jell-o for dave
3. Robot exercise
4. Robots take doghnuts away from kids and give them healthy food (bananas) (any guesses on what dave will do with the doughnuts? )
5. Robots fight an E. coli outbreak

This is getting wierder by the second. I don’t even believe myself.

[Goober]

I think it might deal with “golf”???

the round dimond plate looks like a golf ball and 5-might deal with 5 holes and the blue back ground-I HAVE NO CLUE!!!

Goober!!!

[Richard_Wallace]

400 posts and Dave is still laughing. EDIT: correction – he is “Just making it up as I go along…”

[billy9083]

did anyone notice that the five was on like a coin or something and not attached to the background

[prettycolors91]

obviously we’re going to have to build boats with giant magnets to pick up the aluminum pieces off the bottom of a pool. duh.

Time for advil…

[woody]

obviously we’re going to have to build boats with giant magnets to pick up the aluminum pieces off the bottom of a pool. duh.

Especially because you can pick up aluminum with a magnet

[Squishylizard]

Hi, too lazy to read the whole thread.

Boron is the 5th Element. The comp will therefor be very slow and BORing, as in more of a strategy game than an action game like last years. The diamond plate attests to the incredible heat and pressures involved in this game, heat and pressures found in a Generation II star, such as our sun. The sun is in space, obviously symbolized by the nebulous blue background. THUS, the 2007 FRC game will take place IN THE SUN!!! The only option now is to destroy the sun before it’s too late.