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It's also worth mentioning that this year will be the 25 Year Anniversary for FRC, so I think that is playing a role here as well.

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I am very excited about this trailer for the new season. It is a cool way to get students intrested in the program by showing them a glimpse of what the next year may look like. In addition for outreach and sponsors this will be awesome to show others what our next season may look like. Makes for easier explanations as well. Thanks FIRST for this new change!

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Quarter century mark, quarterbacks throw footballs.....football game conf....I kid, I kid...


However, I do think this video will be interesting to see. I'm of the belief that the video itself won't show much more than FIRST promotional clips and hype to get those "outside the tent" interested in this whole robot thing....with a little , tiny, bone of a hint thrown at us wolves.....

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It's exactly the image of all FIRST participants when we discover the hint... :)

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Not true - someone figured out the hint the same day it was posted. The image is gone, but Greg managed to correctly predict the game piece and the method of scoring fairly quickly.

Pedantic points about old game hints aside, I think this announcement is pretty big. Obviously, something is different enough about this game that we need to know about it two months in advance. That's unprecedented in FRC. In the era of ample COTS parts and a relatively stable set of rules, the main reason I can see FRC wanting to tell teams in advance is to avoid having them stocking up on parts they would need any other year, but not this year. Or possibly to prepare to drive and play on a drastically different field surface. To me this advance notice, combined with the several comments about how this is a game specific hint, implies that the hint will reveal that the game will be drastically different from anything in years' past.

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Possible, but I would have thought that after the general disapproval of Recycle Rush (which I don't share) the GDC would go for something more traditional. I guess anything is possible, we'll just have to wait and see.

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I bet that it's going to be some kind of football game, and they tie the 25th anniversary of FRC to Super Bowl 50.

My predicted game name: "Halftime!"

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Makes sense, but is it going to be an aerial game or a ground game? Could it be an asymmetric game where one alliance is on offense and the other on defense?

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Then each match would be 1.25 minutes long?:yikes: It autonomous is going to be half the match. (I'm kidding, BTW)

On a (slightly) more serious note, perhaps the GDC thinks that it'll take more than six weeks to figure out how to manipulate the gamepiece. For example: one of those rubber ducks that Frank posted a video of. :rolleyes:

~Daler

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Get ready for robots that play instruments and march in time.

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Other interesting 2016 Anniversaries:

100th Anniversary of Einstein's Theory of Relativity
20th Anniversary of Dolly the Sheep being cloned

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"Introducing the 2016 FIRST Robotics Competition and this year's game, 'Halftime is Relative!'";)

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Introducing "We clone the Relative Halftime!"

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Lol. That'd be something... :P