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So, we've determined that either A) Frank is a massive Doctor Who fan and the person at FIRST who is in charge of the blog is REALLY bad at typing out the correct year or B ) These are game hints. Considering the overload of the typos and Frank's seemingly innocuous drop of the Doctor Who 50th Ending in an official FRC Blog Post, I'm willing to play hardball with option B.

The constant re-occurrence of 3 suggests numbers of something (Also, Nikola Tesla reportedly felt he could not have ANYTHING indivisible by 3; his room number, number of napkins, number of towels, etc), and the Doctor Who reference suggests time is important (but let's be honest - time is a resource that FIRST Teams never seem to have enough of).

Auto at the end of the match? Plausible, and a very interesting wrinkle.

We still have no clue on the game piece, but history tells us this will probably not be a common sport object - If they want to avoid a game with shooting, it's easy to get away from a sport object and choose something like inner-tubes. It is still plausible, however, that they use a sport ball like a(n) (American) football and prevent possession of the game piece, and require you to herd it or kick it short distances (re: Breakaway).