I am leaning toward agreeing that the water is to throw us off. It would be extremely difficult to have a water based game without changing venues. There is an event though that is water based!
www.h2orobots.org Check it out! We want as many FIRST teams as possible to participate. I do think that the game clue is meant to through us off. The distorted view for the drivers does seema like the most plausable one to expect. I guess we will have to just wait and see!