TGurlik
January 29, 2016, 6:35pm
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I’ve been secretly hoping someone would ask “Chute door?” again this year, and for the GDC to respond “No chute door.”
However, I don’t want this to happen strongly enough to waste the GDC ’s time on it.
Well, you don’t have to be the one wasting their time; someone else beat you to it. Take a look at this year’s Chute Door: Sally Port . We shall see if the results are similar to last year’s.
I wonder if that’s intentional or not. Things like “chute door” are only funny because they weren’t forced and I feel like the chute door meme is being forced now.
TGurlik
January 29, 2016, 7:09pm
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I’m not surprised it happened, but I’m also not really a fan of it. It was funny once, but it’s an old joke now. Time to move on.
JayNico
February 8, 2016, 8:06pm
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XaulZan11:
Couldn’t just about anything that the spy brings next to the field be a “signalling/pointing device”? I’d put good money on at least one team bringing something (not necessarily used as a pointing device) outside the box and having it provide a competitive advantage. Maybe a 6 foot wide mirror to ‘signal’ to the driveteam so they can see if there are any boulders hiding on the far side of the defenses, similar to 1986’s mirror in 2010?
Oh those poor vision trackers
ctt956
February 8, 2016, 8:16pm
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Finally, another corn game!
EricH:
You saw what happened when someone asked the GDC what the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow was, right?
(For anybody who’s seen that movie , their response was as expected.)
The real question is “does an unladen swallow used as a message delivery device (aka carrier pigeon) count as unpowered?”
I don’t think a carrier pigeon is unladen.
hrench
March 12, 2016, 12:52am
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Christopher149:
In reply to Q674 of the 2016 Q&A, the GDC said:
A. It would be considered unpowered, unless you switched it on. Then it would be powered. It would be fine to use, switched off, as a pointing device, in just the same way you would use a baguette * or a leg of mutton.
Is this the 2016 version of “Chute door? Yes, chute door.”?
Team 1108 sent a human player to the spybox with baguette signaling devices today! Some people got it.
KH987
March 13, 2016, 11:09am
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Team 987’s human player used a baguette during qualification rounds at LA.
EricH
March 13, 2016, 6:20pm
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And was applauded for it by folks who saw it and got the joke. Well played.
Still waiting for someone to pull out ye olde leg o’ mutton, though.
EricH:
And was applauded for it by folks who saw it and got the joke. Well played.
Still waiting for someone to pull out ye olde leg o’ mutton, though.
The Greater Toronto Central regional was held at a venue literally right next door to a supermarket. If we had only thought of it sooner…
GeeTwo
March 13, 2016, 11:30pm
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I tried to post a Q&A on the baguette and leg of mutton, but it was deleted. Not exact wording, but something like:
Many venues do not allow outside food (or drinks), and at least one venue offers neither baguettes nor mutton on their menu. Even if your venue allows these items, please be careful about crumbs and/or grease drippings in the spy box and/or castle.
