[FRC Blog] When is a Game Hint not a Game Hint?

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

I would be curious to see if anyone with some time on their hands to make a trailer using any prior years game that wouldn't give away 90% of the game.

What do you mean? The game reveal videos don't give away 90% of the game; probably more like to 30-50%. Just looking at Recycle Rush, the game reveal video gave no clues about problems and activities that were crucial to many teams' success or failure:

• How much litter got in the way of driving and scoring (and occasionally got caught inside a lift or other mechanism).
• Tetherbots, whether active stackers or passive ramps (or butlers or nets).
• Pre-capping stacks, or even scoring pre-built stacks.
• Can Burglaring, much less can battles
• Noodling cans over the wall.
• How small, cluttered, and messy the field would be.

And things people thought about or were explicitly shown in the video, but were not useful strategies:

• Robots throwing things across the step
• Vortex cannons
• Noodle Nets
• Really tall stacks (more than 6 totes)
• Noodle cones
• Robots manipulating noodles