FRC Blog - Numbers

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9,328,490,238,209
This is a number Haley Dunn, FIRST PR and Social Media Specialist, posted in this tweet. She intended it to be random, ridiculously large number, not some kind of game hint, though some folks on a few forums think it is a game hint. It’s not. But I expect for some people, me saying it’s not a game hint will be taken as conclusive proof that it actually is a game hint. But it’s not a game hint.

82,152
As of this writing, the number of times the FIRST STRONGHOLD teaser has been viewed on YouTube, making it the 3rd most viewed video FIRST has every posted. Though I’m pretty sure a good number of those views are repeat views, with a not-insignificant percentage of those repeat views coming from my mom. Hi Mom! One associated number to mention also. The teaser has gathered 500 ‘likes’, earning it the most ‘likes’ ever for a FIRST video, with the second-place video coming in currently at 312.

**3,134 **
As of last night, the number of FIRST Robotics Competition teams registered and paid for the 2016 season. We’ve exceeded our team goal for the season and still have a few more teams that may be joining us!

14
The number of FRC Staffers for whom getting ready for this Kickoff has nearly been the end of.

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More days until Kickoff!

Frank

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It’s official: we’ve run out of things to talk about.

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5 numbers mentioned in the post. 5 letters in the word water. Water game confirmed.

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Is this a game hint?

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Maybe at Nationals they’ll tell us.

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What is really funny is the other Frank felt the need to deny that this is a game hint.

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Hi Frank’s Mom!

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That has never stopped us.

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Run out of things to talk about? No! We make our own things to talk about, for example, treating every FRC Blog post like it’s a game hint

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Or hitting Billfred with a clipboard.

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9,328,490,238,209
This is a number Haley Dunn, FIRST PR and Social Media Specialist, posted in this tweet. She intended it to be random, ridiculously large number, not some kind of game hint, though some folks on a few forums think it is a game hint. It’s not. But I expect for some people, me saying it’s not a game hint will be taken as conclusive proof that it actually is a game hint. But it’s not a game hint.

Why can’t they just let us have our unhealthily obsessive fun taking everything they say as a game hint?

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It’s Cheifdelphi.
That is impossible.

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The number of FRC Staffers for whom getting ready for this Kickoff has nearly been the end of.

What’s going on with this statement? Am I the only one who’s having trouble making sense of it?
It almost reads like Frank’s saying that 14 people nearly died in the making of the kickoff video. I hope the game isn’t that dangerous this year!

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Maybe that is a hint. They laxed the safety rules?

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Yep, we are the Seinfeld of Robotics, we can post for days about how we have nothing to post about. :rolleyes:

I think that’s along the lines of all the postings that “the yyyy build season was almost the death of me” because of the stress, workload and a deadline that does not move. There is lots of pressure on them to get it perfect on going out the door.