[Bill_B]

Hint or not, if you want to guess what the next year's game in one FIRST program, it will serve you well to look at what the other challenges in other years have contained. Last year FRC had balancing on bridges. The year before that FTC had (wait for it) balancing on bridges. This year FLL has, yep you guessed it, balancing on a "bridge" or at least a tippy platform.

Last year FTC had a flock of little balls, a couple of bowling balls, and some crates to stack. How much of that makes it to the 2013 FRC game remains to be seen. In the light of all the analyses that mention rolling, never giving UP and knowing the game, etc., it would seem that ignoring the other programs' games will leave out too many possibilities.

This year's FTC challenge has rings on pegs and lifting the alliance robot off the mat in the end game. Sound familiar?

Oh, about the third alliance idea? Hate, hate, hate the prospect! Irrespective of having a crowded field, anyone else itching to make a third set of colored bumpers? That's the payoff for inventing faster ways to change them? Thanks, but no thanks, GDC!