[Kevin Sevcik]

I have no where near the time or patience to catch up with this year's runaway speculation train, so I'm just throwing this out without checking to see if anyone else has argued it.

I think the suggestion that they're recycling 2014 is a pretty persuasive one. My intuition on this is mainly driven by the very obvious recycling of the manual, and the combination of the history lesson in game changes and Frank boldly declaring that change is coming.

Think about it. The one absolute constant through the years is that each game is radically different from the previous year's. It's the ONE thing we all take for granted. Even the water game jokes that assume nearly everything about robot design will change are assuming the game is going to be different.

There's really only two ways to take Frank's statement. Option B (for boring) is that the game/robot/field is going to be radically different this year. This is not news. If I time traveled back here from two weeks in the future and declared that the 2015 game was totally new and different, I would be met with a resounding chorus of "and?"

Option M (for meta) is that Frank's statement means a change is coming to the fundamental nature of how things are done in FRC. Which really is news and surprising, as evidenced by the controversy of a recycled game.

Given that the game hints actually do have informational content and option B is completely lacking in information, I'm kind leaning towards option M...