Official FIRST STEAMWORKS Teaser and DLC Pack 1!
 

Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/FIRSTOffici...7941727895307/

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37GBEBLfhWA

Website link: firstinspires.org/2017-frc-teaser

DLC Pack 1: https://firstinspiresst01.blob.core....c/DLCPack1.zip

DLC Pack 1 contains Wallpapers, Ringtones, Game Logos, and Team Recruitment Posters

Recording of the FRC GameSense aftershow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yt7usJ8b2w

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Really, flight? That is going to feed the rumor mill...

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OMG it's a flying game. Drones here we come and several severe injuries from rotor blades.

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Prepare to take flight... Steam is boiled water... Hydroplane game confirmed.

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WHY A FLYING GAME OUR NEURAL NET ISN'T EVEN WORKING ON THE GROUND.

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The robot in the trailer that the kids were working on had Pneumatic wheels... Hmm.

*3 minutes later*

"Andymark is out of stock of 8" Pneumatic wheels."

I can see it already. :'(

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Valve sponsorship confirmed?

Edit: Does anyone know the trailer music so I can make a high quality rip of it?

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Break out the rakes!

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Raised platforms, either for robots or scoring pieces. Otherwise that ramp to where the team is working on the robot wouldn't be necessary.



Also why does their robot diagram (and robot) have only 5 wheels and an opening on the side?

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Be sure to check out the Aftershow on GameSense at 7:30 ET. We've got Emma Dumont as well as Allen Gregory and some of his students from 3847 to hear what they think about the goodies coming our way!

Watch at twitch.tv/FRCGameSense or youtube.com/FRCGameSense

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Well, it's obviously a steampunk game.

That means that instead of batteries, we'll need to have boilers aboard the robots. Not looking forward to inspecting THOSE for safety.

Oh, and no aluminum, gotta use iron.

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Building a drone during Ri3D is going to be a challenge...

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I predict that this game will have teamwork in it.

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And!!......................chief delphi finally comes out of summer hibernation.

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Going off of the four year cycle theory, maybe the unusual object is a gear?

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It feels like we are progressing through world history (Medieval times, industrial revolution)...

2018 FRC Great Depression Game Confirmed!

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Looking at it, what really stands out to me is the blimps. I would guess a football game, just not a football theme.

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Steam power would be awesome and you could use copper.

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We're gonna need to scale the steam tower...

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Skunkworks...Steamworks.... This is our game....

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But I never finished my bingo card...

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Hey look, a minibot :P Attachment 21056

STEAMWORKS!! STEAM = GASEOUS WATER! WATERGAME CONFIRMED!!!
 

AHHHHHH ITS FINALLY HERE :ahh:

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What happens to steam when it cools?
It turns into water, water game confirmed.

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There's a paintbrush in the logo and the name is STEAMworks... FIRST is feeling the art vibe.

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Did they have to go with STEAM?? That is the biggest joke in engineering. Just keep it STEM...

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At long last, all my joke design sketches during reveal day will come in handy! I knew that propellers would be in the game some day :D
Now we just need a proper nanobot game and I'll have predicted everything

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You guys know what steam is the gaseous version of...

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I'm already dreading all the cosplay that I know is bound to happen this year....

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Ahem, steam is still water in the gaseous form.

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+1

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When I first saw it I was kinda like "aww thats annoying at the steampunk theme" but thinking about it for a few minutes I'm starting to think that this game will be quite good. Also with flying could there be some sort of robot v robot game on the ground and a drone v drone game in a separate area.?

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The logos in the DLC sure hint strongly at a football sailing over the top hat.

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If you look at the logo, the blimp in the top right looks like a football, just saying.

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All the flight elements are going to be chaos
I was worried about our robot falling off of the tower while scaling last year, imagine a mid air collision :ahh:

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No steam is a vapor not a gas.

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Is the animated logo GIF in the DLC pack broken for anyone else? It shows up fine when shared in the F4 Slack, but when opened in preview, it says it's corrupted. All my browsers say the same thing. (Yes, I'm on a mac).

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See left side: https://youtu.be/37GBEBLfhWA?t=15

Robots must draw portraits of Dean and Woodie. Also, map on right side conveniently shows which areas will attend the North half-champ.

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Haven't seen anyone mention it yet, but the DLC ringtone includes a "working-with-shovel" sound. Seems to me like that could be some sort of hint. Maybe digging out items in some way?

The train horn could be too. Maybe having to follow some sort of track, like a train?

Or maybe they're just digging a hole 6 feet deep for minibots, can grabbers - and maybe some 50 foot long graves for some of the go-pro poles.

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Inner tubes = gears? Are we building our airship and going up the platform when done to launch it?

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I think you're on to something ::rtm::

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The gears in the logo makes me think that game piece will be gears, and the robots will have to place said gears in a certain configuration in order to "activate" some sort of "device", possibly the blimp. Activation of the machine would be similar to capturing the tower. But the whole Steampunk concept is far from the futuristic theme everyone was buzzing about.

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Anyone else notice this? Looks like a map of the Eastern United States

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The black dot is at FIRST HQ...

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*sigh* I guess we have to make another dragon this year.

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Well considering that the robot the students were working on had bumpers so at least we can say bumpers confirmed...

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Also looks like there is a black dot on the location of FIRST headquarters.

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Idk if this is a coincidence but the new MTG set, Kaladesh is steampunk theme also. Or maybe this is just a coincidence?

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So are you saying anyone who's on a FIRST team for artistic purposes should just go ahead and quit? FIRST as an organization should only pay attention to those "who will actually make it"

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I thought the little robot on the left was interesting.

Also, the girl holding the cog-ball reminds me a lot of a past game piece. Also, why is she pointing to the robot on the chart? It's almost as if the bot will carry it.

As others have said too, the ramp/workstation are kind of awkward and definitely represent some game obstacle.

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I'm interested to know why the clock reads 1:08 (or 13:08, or 1:07/13:07). I can't imagine that's a random time.

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Apparently 1:08 in Mark goes
"I indeed have baptized you with water, but He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.”
Sooooooo that involves water, and steam can appear to be ghostlike :confused:? Checking around for references to the other numbers

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True.

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Just saying the girl second from the left does not have regulation hair
That's dangerous yo::ouch::

Why is there a clock?
 

I notice that the clock seems very dominant in this picture. The time on it shows what we believe is 1:08. Does anyone know what significance this has? Also my friend points out that it's in Roman numerals.:confused:

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The number 108 is considered sacred in several eastern religions for a wide variety of reasons.

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My guess is that it's 1:07 since the game is released on January 7th

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Isn't kick-off January 7 this year? 1/07

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They teased this at worlds in the after party with the drummers.

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Well would you look at that, it is. I read it as 1:08 but 1:07 would make way more sense then. That's one mystery solved.

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Anything worth analyzing is worth over-analyzing. And anything worth over-analyzing is worth hyper-analyzing. Ready, go!

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This is what I immediately thought of as well XD

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1:07 from the clock 1-07 is when the game comes out:ahh:

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Hey, that's pretty good.

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In the third recruitment poster, there is another picture of the clock, but this time it is at 1:30. Coincidence?https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7o...ew?usp=sharing

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Recruitment poster #3 shows a a clock at 1:30, hmm...

edit- Lireal beat me to it

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this may be a harmless coincidence but at Worlds, there was a band that came out and played before Don Bossi came out and spoke. The band had goggles on their outfits that look steampunky (I cant tell my video quality isnt great). Found it interesting

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I could be totally out of the ballpark on this one but thought i would share anyways

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The game is supposed to be released on January 9th but it wont be released until January 30th

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The bumper is team number 6. According to the blue alliance team 6 is the CogSquad. A cog is a wheel or bar with a series of projections on its edge that transfers motion by engaging with projections on another wheel or bar.

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You're a little late to the party...



Personally, I think I've got a prediction as to who's going to win the Championship.
1577, 1761, 3204, and 4057 had better form an alliance this year, somewhere, somehow. (That's two steampunks and two steampunk animals.) Finalists will include 3966 and 4531 (both STEMpunk).

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Does anyone else notice the minibot in this photo???

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What do you guys think about the working-with-shovel ringtone? Maybe part of the game will be manipulating coal to create steam?

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Anyone else wondering what this thing is? It doesn't look like anything I've seen on a robot before...
Attachment 21060

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4515 is Calvert STEAM Works

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My guess is FLL minibots that "mine coal." That's why they had the shoveling soundbite.

Football game (blimps) where there are two large circular targets (the goggles in the logo).

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Maybe it will be launching footballs into a boiler goal, with a minibot endgame of sorts?

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So steampunk is typically in London right
So
13:08 would be August 13th in their date system right
So

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_13
Tying back into London and UK, on that day "1913 – First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley."
Going back to water speculation, "1895 – István Barta, Hungarian water polo player (d. 1948)" was born. Coincidence? :cool:
The alliances are going to be three robots each, "29 BC – Octavian holds the first of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes."

Now that's all very interesting, but what exactly happened during the year 1308?
Well, "approx. date – Dante Alighieri begins to write the Divine Comedy." In that book, there are 9 circles of Hell, which indicates that there will be three alliances on the field at once, but they will each be three teams as usual if you recall the August 13 in 29 BC.

But! There are 4 circles on the wall in the workshop (clock, 2 gears, and some smooth one). The fourth circle of Hell is Greed. Teams are going to have to steal game objects from other teams. This ties in with the ninth circle of Hell, which is Treachery. In the end game period, that's when this element will come into play. The game length will be divisible by nine. HOOOOOLD UP though. As my friend just pointed out, 9 is also 1 plus 8, or the clock time.

Not done yet though. As someone in the thread pointed out, the clock is in Roman Numerals. Let's take it back to good ol August 13th, this time in 582. "582 – Maurice becomes Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire." After our good friend Maurice became Emperor, he fought against the Sassanid Persians. When he succeeded, he abolished the extensive taxes that the Romans had been required to the Persians in order for peace. Remember the fourth circle of Hell?

You thought I was done with Maurice, didn't you. "In 602, a dissatisfied general named Phocas usurped the throne, having Maurice and his six sons executed." That's a whooole bunch of treachery, innit?

Well, that's all I got for now. :cool: Watch the skies.

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^^ that's exactly why the clock was set to that. It's a red herring for a "water game" ;)

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My prediction is:

Object of the game is to launch some sort of device that is on the alliance wall (blimp thing?) Game pieces are the cogs. Cogs are placed at different heights on the blimp. Once all the cogs are in place, the blimp launches.

Guessing it's a hybrid of logomotion and Stronghold. Maybe drone mini-bots?

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It's a new radio. :)

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I did some searching on The Blue Alliance about 1330, and through a string of years got to the team "Robots of the Round Table" (Team 2007, from Thunderducks (2004) from 1330's rookie year), which may be a reference to last year's game.

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I don't know if this has already been said, but the band at Opening Ceremonies this year was steampunk. Coincidence? I think not.
Sincerely your 2016 DL Winners

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I agree with your theory, would be really interesting.

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Of course not, but the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics are very closely linked in both subject matter and the issues that they face (but are still very diverse). Including Art, a field that is completely unrelated, and important for reasons that are entirely separate from the reasons that STEM subjects are seems disingenuous to me. STEAM is an acronym that loses its way for the want of including too many fields - it becomes a platitude that loses all meaning.

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I noticed that there a few references to goggles, specifically in the Recruitment Poster #2. Maybe they are going beyond safety glasses and potentially introduce VR in some way? Maybe to simulate flying?

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One of our mentors pointed out the same thing, I hadn't even thought about it. A little preliminary hint, I guess

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Precisely how I feel. Art is an important craft that has many technical aspects, but it is a totally separate field from STEM. There is a very good way to put this.

STEM is objective, art is subjective.

Shoehorning art into STEM essentially turns STEAM into a banner which covers practically all subjects.

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Found some random pieces in the High Res wallpaper that appear multiple times and seem out of place... Also noticed that some of the stuff appears in a "blueprint" and actual behind it...

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I'm thinking the game will be themed about running a factory or operating a boiler. Many small round-ish game pieces (the coal) to be scored in goals and a few gear or cog shaped pieces (the repair parts) with high point values to be scored or placed in alternate scoring zones.

End game will be to burn out the drive motors, causing the magic smoke (or steam, in this game) to be released.

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I've been wanting to see moving field elements on the fiel for the longest time! Maybe this will be my year!

The huge focus on the word "cog", the number 6 on the bumper as Logan pointed out, the various cogs in the picture. I think there may be something that the robots may need to do to activate something on the field, or realease the game pieces (maybe footballs ;))

My thought for this is is the complexity of the past few FTC games (2015 and 2016 in particular) I've been wanting something like these past games to come to FRC and this may be my year.

I'm very excited for 2017.

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FLYING WATER GAME CONFIRMED

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There is also the shoveling ringtone. Perhaps coal is also being added to this device to make the steam.

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It just seemed like you were getting angry at FIRST for a reason that doesn't even exist. The name of the game is Steamworks because it has a Steampunk theme, why does that have to mean that they meant for it to be S.T.E.A.M.?

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Wrenches? :confused:

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Team 6 was from Minnesota. Maybe they predict that a MN team will finally win Einstein at one of the champs?

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I dont mind that its called steamworks if that name works, was just giving my 2 cents against the steam acronym (not the same person you initially replied to).

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DISTRICTS CONFIRMED 2018