anyone have any ideas about next years game?

[EricH]

300+ posts in about 12 hours isn't a flurry? Well, at least we haven't managed to crash any websites yet.

[Tyler Hicks]

I would definitely say there was a flurry....look at the Game Hint thread.

So the clue is pretty questionable, and has all of us very curious. I'm actually more excited for kickoff than I am for Christmas!

I've been waiting to see a "capture-the-flag" type game, but we will just have to wait and see. 18 more days!

[Gir_450]

What our team has found that is a huge event in history is the triple conjunction between Uranus and Jupiter (This happens in January). These planets, as we all know, were named after roman gods. The pillar in the hint appears to be of roman architect. Now here's where conjunction comes in, the woman is Little Eva, whose biggest hit was in 1962 and it was titled "Loco-Motion". Locomotion can refer to trains, and trains can refer to conjunctions. Therefore, we are possibly dealing with some sort of train game =P

[EricH]

Friendly reminder: Let's keep the hint discussion in the hint thread, please.

[dag0620]

Originally Posted by Kage

wow, CD is quite mellow haha, I remember last year and the year before that, there was a FLURRY of activity on the day the first game hint came out!
I'm coming back as a first year mentor this year, so I hope the game is challenging
I get to teach all the youngens the ins and outs...

CD was going crazy yesterday. the diffrence is it was all on one thread.

Just for the heck of it I browsed around other threads and there was nothing going on in them!!!

Heres hopeing to Clue #2 being on it's way

[CHHS_METALSKINS]

I over heard at one of the first lego league contest someone said its going to do with tennis balls?

[EricH]

That was a red herring, not official. If someone does know something, they aren't telling. If they are telling, they don't know anything.

Either that, or they were talking about the collegiate challenge pilot.

[Carter12s]

I have looked over a list of previous years games and here are the assumptions that I think can be safely made about next years competition:

1. The game will most likely take place on carpet; while water, dirt, and gravel have all been discussed as field materials, the problem is that each of the individual fields are required to be completely disassembled and moved every week of the competition. The added complexity presented by an aggregate field material is more likely to do harm to the overall competition process than to help.

2. The game will be played on relatively flat ground; While previous competition have required slopes and inclinations no competition has ever required massive substructure to the field. This assists in the transportation of the field as well as the ability for spectators to observe.

3. The game will involve a object and a target; whether that object is a ball, puck, or hoop cannot be determined and whether th target is a basket, goal, or teammate, cannot be known.

4. The game will required at least two subsystems for the robots: a drive train, and a manipulator. In general these two systems will be independent and able to be separably designed.

My conjuncture as to the nature of the game will be played on a field with many columns which make navigation difficult. The game will involve a rubber foursquare ball, since most other common balls have already been used. Robots will be required to dexterously maneuver these columns to score, and a special focus will be place on teamwork.

I hope this helps you in your last minute pre-season plans. Good luck!

[kazzykaty]

Originally Posted by ADZDEBLICK

water game...

Everyone always thinks a water game... and it never is.

[Nick Lawrence]

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.

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by kazzykaty

Everyone always thinks a water game... and it never is.

Everybody always makes the joke that it will be a water game...though most of us do know why it won't happen.

[Patz]

I still love the computer-games best,regardless of the type.

[ESPbomb]

Originally Posted by Fireworks 234

You said it all right there The game isn't even finished yet

The game hasn't even really started yet. NO COMPETITIONS

[fishex99]

hello!

[davidthefat]

I predict a game with a football(s). (Will.I.Am -> Super Bowl -> Football)