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My latest thought is a blimp shaped object suspended from a wire. Game pieces are gears and cogs which, when placed, form a mechanism for translating the blimp across the field on the wire. Game pieces that move the blimp faster have higher points value, but are more difficult to place. End game is the blimp reaching the destination first - a red alliance and blue alliance have their own blimp. I look at all the watch pieces in the artwork and think "They've got to mean something". Field has a 19th century feel to it with brick buildings as obstacles. The submarines in the art work represent a hidden danger, perhaps a random obstacle or indicative of active defense allowed during the game.

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Oh, and add a cobblestone playing field surface.

Here ya go: http://www.firstsv.org/?page_id=104

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And, of course, gaslight.

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I can add a bit to this hype mill.

1. Honestly what I think is the coolest STEAM in STEAMWORKS referring to
Science Technology Engineering Art and Math. This year I think first is going to start implementing heaving judging and emphasis on team design and the ARTistic side; Branding, Merch, and Image etc. After champs last year with the Disney rep and Will I AM i'm personally hoping for a design/art related award that gets you to champs. Because we currently have one for every "Section" of a team except for the visual. Chairman's for professional outreach, Comp winning for build, EI for first related outreach, but nothing for design or art.

2. The Game: *Please attach tin foil hats to your skulls we going deep* now firstly if we go back and watch the teaser we see that small dirigible like zeppelin thing. Which could mean two things 1. Footballs, lame or 2. The end game will be something like 2011 where we now have to fly small small "Dirigible like drones" onto platforms as an end game. Furthermore first recently banned the throwing of paper airplanes because possible they could interfere with things in flights. Also the day after the teaser was released first released a video on their twitter, I believe, of a team demonstrating a football launching robot. So as a wrap up, the game will be a football based game with an endgame that has to do with flying a drone from the robot to a platform above the game field.

Or I could be totally wrong and the games going to be a giant water tank full of small pieces of denim that battle bots have to destroy.

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Mini bots on Ziplines for an endgame could be quite fun.

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The Zipline element of the FLL game for 2015 was an absolute nightmare. I'm not sure ho it would hold up at FRC scale though.

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Oh god that thing was awful. You could never get the tension correct.

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I miss the years when game speculation was based on an actual hint released in the form of unintelligible strings of numbers :rolleyes: