[EricH]

No. And No.

The college FIRST pilot has a completely separate Game Design Committee. So the picture of the tennis ball, which was posted by dlavery here, is not related to that. Same for the 30,000 feet one, posted by Bill on the FRC blog. AFAIK, neither of those two persons is on the collegiate GDC (they have enough problems designing one game already).

The tennis ball is not the official clue, either. EVERYTHING posted here is unofficial, unless it is linked back to official sources (FIRST site, Bill's Blog, Game Manual, and the like), in which case it is only official as far as the quote/link goes. Dave Lavery may be a GDC member, but on these forums, nothing he says can be taken as official, unless he specifically says that it is (in which case, the official sources comment earlier comes into play, as Dave always links back to the official source location).

Why did someone have to post about how they were waiting patiently for the hint? Now everyone's impatient!