Re: What was the big change that they talked about?
 

I'll answer this peice by peice.

They made one animation, The game was the same, just 2v2v2. They didn't have to change the manual that much, plus that makes it a "major change" like they said. Again, the feild was not changed, just the two center robots were changed from white-white to blue-red. The only part that would have to be changed for the rules is 1) all robots behind end zone, which does seem kinda unFIRST-like, no struggle at the end. 2) they just changed the colors of the robots which were previosly white so that one was blue, and one was red.

and also, it waswn't just a triangle. It was a triangle with three different sectors (one blue, one red and one white) and three people of corresespnding colors with their arms extended to the same color sector of the tetrahedron.
I hope this images stays attached. its a screenshot of that part of the animation. you can see what i was talking about. If you still disagree, thats fine. It's just my opionion. lol, it doesn't relaly matter, i guess...

SOrry for continuing, just wanted to show everyone what i meant. :)

Re: What was the big change that they talked about?
 

Somehow this seems like a very good point, while difficult to pull off in the last minute it looks to be good evidence.

At the same time, those are FIRST's colours, so it's very possible those three colours were chosen with a purpose that did not involve the game.

Re: What was the big change that they talked about?
 

As has been stated, when Dave mentioned the exciting change they made 24 hours before kickoff, he went into how it was the new C compiler. If you watch kickoff again, at least that part,(Which is available at the FIRST site) you can clearly see he is talking about the compiler because he said it took up to 24 hours before kickoff to finish the deal with Microchip.

Re: What was the big change that they talked about?
 

the game is 3v3 ... the white is for the game logo only .. the two colours are red and blue for the matches .. FIRST would not separate alliances during the game because they know how vital communication before, during, and after the match is ...

Re: What was the big change that they talked about?
 

The game was always 3v3. There never was a "White" alliance, just "RED" and "BLUE." The opening shot in the animation is just the cover artwork used on the competition programs, and the three figures are meant to represent the three teams on the alliance.

The last minute change referred to during the kick off had to do with the new compiler from Microchip.

-dave

Re: What was the big change that they talked about?
 

Lets end this here and now, the game that was announced on January 8th, 2005 is the same game, the game design committee and FIRST has been working on for the past YEAR+. There is not the man power or the resources for FIRST to develop and make a game in a month let alone a day. If you want to continue this discussion please feel free to in aim or in private but you discussion is confusing some people about the Official game for 2005 and the true change that occurred under 24 hours before kickoff was the finalization of the Microchip deal.

Re: What was the big change that they talked about?
 

Had complaints about this thread confusing folks.

No useful purpose to the thread but this IS the rumor mill so no harm no foul. It was more or less not worth the bother of doing anything about before but now... ...let's just close it shall we?

Yes... ...I think we shall...

Joe J.