MetaKickoff.
I have been waiting with baited breath on New Years eve for the past 18 years in anticipation of the FRC game release the following Saturday.
BITD, there was no stinkin' Game Hint! (We didn't use acronyms or emoticons either)
Then came the NASA broadcasts from New Hampshire, and we had to make sure that the receiving dish on top of our Town Hall was aimed at the right satellite.
Dean, Woody and others would pretend to be Robots on a new field, manipulating the game piece in front of an audience of teams and dignitaries.
Oh, how
FIRST has mirrored the changes in technology and our world. The Game release is pretty much pre-produced.
And now we have our own lil' WikiLeaks.
I am enjoying this discussion more than the Game Hint thread.
Ethics, espionage, subterfuge, suppression!
Cheers to all of the comments here. They are, for the most part, thoughtful, intelligent, and enlightening.
Happy 2015.
Get ready for the best "waste of time" that I can imagine!