2015 HINT DISCUSSION

[EricH]

Originally Posted by BenBraun3090

and if the field is still 27'x54' then i doubt that we would have 3 alliances

I don't even need a field size to tell me that there will never, ever, ever be 3 alliances on the field. Just hearing about what happened in 1998--and the reaction from FIRST, in 1999--is more than enough. Won't be 3 alliances... but might be 4-team alliances.


My opinion:

We will see some prior game, from 1992-2014 inclusive, or some combination of such games, with changes for XvX, where X>=3, and enough changes to make it unrecognizable.

Anybody wanna play 2000 with footballs and the option to shoot?

[Michael Hill]

Originally Posted by magnets

I would be okay if he was telling us that money is coming

Maybe they found a way to drastically reduce the cost of running a regional and are going to refund everyone $1000!!! I'll take it.

[tindleroot]

Many game hints are actually just name reveals. 2011 revealed "Logomotion" and last year revealed "Assists", and I think 2013 did a similar thing.

[IronicDeadBird]

If you listen carefully to the noise the paper makes as it hits the recycling bin it sounds like its saying.
Water game....
HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!!!!!!

[Michael Hill]

Originally Posted by tindleroot

Many game hints are actually just name reveals. 2011 revealed "Logomotion" and last year revealed "Assists", and I think 2013 did a similar thing.

"Recycled Robots"

[Anthony Galea]

People have paper balls wadded up and throw them into recycling bins and play it like basketball. 2014 rules were thrown into the basket, so assists are being recycled. 2011 didn't have the change in the video.

2012 basketball, with scoring, 2014 assists system, 2011 endgame.

[StAxis]

A lot of people seem to be on the triangle hype train right now. Triangular paper clip, change being symbolized by delta, and to add to that, the interior angles of an equilateral triangle are 60 degrees, which is exactly how long the video is in seconds.

[Beaker]

Originally Posted by DHP7320

2015 Jr FLL and FLL challenges both have to do with waste & recycling. Waste Wise and Trash Trek are the respective challenge names. Maybe the FRC game theme will follow suit.

http://juniorfirstlegoleague.org/201...challenge.html
http://www.firstlegoleague.org/challenge/2015trashtrek

Also in FLL this year, the field surface changed from canvas (higher traction) to a slippery paper surface.

The recycling bin could be recycling old surfaces from (hopefully not) 2009 Lunacy. Otherwise: water game confirmed.

[brandon.cottrell]

Actually, touching back on my earlier point that the 2009 and 2012 clips weren't Einstein, there were some things that "Changed" that year too.

2009 was the first year for Districts in Michigan, and sure enough a clip from Michigan was shown.

2012 was the first year a team from somewhere outside the U.S. won the Chairman's Award, and sure enough 1114 was shown.

[mrnoble]

[quote=StAxis;1416100]A lot of people seem to be on the triangle hype train right now. /QUOTE]

Count me in that group. The name of the game will include the word "delta".

[David8696]

The song from the video is a royalty-free track called "Social Disgrace" from a stock music website called Wavtracks music:

http://www.wavtracks.com/index.php?m...ducts _id=251

[zachrobo1]

Okay, here is my personal breakdown of the topic from what has happened so far. I tried to sort it based on assumptions.

Hint: "Change is Coming"

Assumption: Change is taken to mean "the act or instance of making or becoming different."

Conclusion: Drastically different game than we've seen before. Perhaps no high goals; maybe a hockey game? This could be a multitude of things, especially due to the fact that they referenced a whole bunch of previous games.

Assumption: The game has something to do with paper/bins.

Conclusion: Perhaps we are scoring elements in bins, and then moving the bins? Maybe there will be goals attached to robots? Perhaps the recycling aspect will have something to do with re-scoring already scored elements.

Assumption: Change is taken to mean currency or coins.

Conclusion: Really small game pieces?

These are just my scattered thoughts right now.. more to come later

[Jade Z]

Last year much grief was given to FIRST about the overuse of penalties in the game. Numerous essays were written on the subject and posted on this very forum. The biggest complaint about Aerial Assist, the 2014 game, was that the rules were too strict.

He's throwing away the game manual- perhaps the penalties are going back to a more reasonable volume. They've realized the referees can't reasonably watch for an entire book of infractions at once.

[Nate Laverdure]

http://www.manchesternh.gov/Recycle-...-Can-I-Recycle

[BriteBacon]

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but most, if not all, of the clips have to do with how scoring took place in that year.