[EricH]

Originally Posted by bsaleh03

Dont want to sound like a heckler, but are you just pulling ideas out of the blue, or is there actual evidence? From the way i see it, FRC makes sure that every game is a surprise, and everything can change. While i am extremely ecstatic about robotics 2016, i dont think we'll get anywhere with random guesses.

You obviously haven't been on CD very long. Trust me. It only gets worse from here.

I'll make this short: As soon as the season is over and the offseasons begin, various people start spreading rumors and speculating with absolutely no basis in fact on what the next game will be. Happens every year, regular as clockwork (though some folks try to start it early...).

Every now and again, Frank (the Director of FRC) will drop "non-hints" in the FRC blog (such as the fact that he knows what the game is), which fuel said rumors and speculations.

'Long about registration, someone asks when the hint will come out (answer: sometime in December by tradition). The hint is the official "guess the game, good luck" red herring. If we're (un)lucky, we get more than one. But until Kickoff, nobody* knows what the game will be.


*Unless you count the GDC and whoever has to build field elements--but if you can actually pry it out of them early, they won't be doing that for very long.