[dsmason807]

Relax -- it looks legit.

Some regions had events where they were showing the game animation, field, and game pieces today. This is clearly a picture of a flyer from one of those events. I guess they took down the video as a courtesy -- that, or FIRST threatened to taunt them a second time, or some such.

Regardless, FTC doesn't have quite the time constraints that FRC does, so I personally wouldn't get too worked up about this being a prank, nor about some teams getting to see the game early, whether via an event or a leak.

A day or two in FTC just isn't a big deal. I personally have very little faith that things will actually be posted by 5:00pm, so I don't really plan to start downloading and reading until tomorrow morning anyway.

After which I look forward to a rewarding season of higher prices for field and robot parts, less variety of mechanisms, and more questionable maturity of wireless control platforms as compared to last year.

Not that I'm pessimistic. :-)