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Originally Posted by Joseph Lewis
5) Switchup of Video Footage, no '99 game, 2x '97 game: I saw a summary that said the thread believes that the switch-up was intentional, and that FIRST was incapable of making such a big mistake on accident. Does no one remember last years hint, when they literally released the wrong numbers, giving the birthday for the soccer player who DIDN'T actually hold the top number of assists? That seems like a pretty big mistake to me. This mistake is not huge, its just an editing error by someone who was rushed to put together a hint and accidentally clicked on the wrong file, chose a random spot to include, and didn't recognize that the game was not from '99 because they weren't around in FIRST during the '99 or '97 games. (kudos to everyone that has pointed this out before).
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Blog post about last year's hint for reference:
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...ame-Hint-Redux
Recall that last year, when they made a mistake that wasn't even a complete mistake as they admitted, Frank wrote a whole new blog post and re-released the hint fixed to avoid confusion or possible misdirection, and even said that "So maybe we should have spent a little more time on this one! Sorry about that." If they truly did just accidentally click on the wrong video clip, I would have expected more of a response like last year's, rather than a nonchalant "Whoops".
Also, I highly doubt they picked they videos and set it to automatically pick a random spot in the video. They specifically chose, even if they didn't spend much time on it, clips from the video that had a bit of action. I could see this being a mistake far more if the two clips were the same, but considering they are from two completely different spots in the same video, I just can't envision any process of editing this video that would result in this as an accident.
Now whether this switcheroo was accidental or not, I don't think it'll provide a whole lot of insight into the game. So while I don't think we should look too far into this part of the hint, I would have to respectfully disagree that this was not intentional.