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Re: anyone have any ideas about next years game?

In 2009, I simply said it had something to do with the moon, as NASA is one of FIRST's biggest sponsors, and being it their anniversary for landing on the moon that year, it kinda made sense. I said the entire game will be moon and space themed, I was right.

In 2010, I said the game would be a heavily modified version of soccer. World cup being that year, and hints on Bills Blog gave that one away pretty early. I was right again.

Maybe I'll go 3 for 3 this year.

PREDICTION:

The 2011 FRC game will be a territorial based game, kind of like capture the flag. The field will be divided in half width-wise by a set of stairs, and a platform. The main game piece will be oversized tennis balls, a flashback to the 1992 FRC game. This is the 20th season of FRC, after all. The object of the game will to be have the most oversized tennis balls on your side of the field. Balls will start either on the field, or dumped on the field like the playground balls were in 2004. For balls to count, they will have to touch the ground. It's possible that FIRST will make a rule stating you can only hold x amount of tennis balls at a time, but that would be unlikely.

So, if I'm right, you need to think about the 1992 game, the 2004 game and the 2006 game.
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