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

[Justin Montois]

It's also worth mentioning that this year will be the 25 Year Anniversary for FRC, so I think that is playing a role here as well.

[Knufire]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

What football theory? FIRST has never hinted at footballs.

Originally Posted by Michael Hill

I don't think you "get" FRC hint theory. lol

FIRST doesn't have to ever hint at anything for us to generate theories (e.g., water game).

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Originally Posted by Summer CD

I have opinions and they're right because reasons!!!

[safiq10]

I am very excited about this trailer for the new season. It is a cool way to get students intrested in the program by showing them a glimpse of what the next year may look like. In addition for outreach and sponsors this will be awesome to show others what our next season may look like. Makes for easier explanations as well. Thanks FIRST for this new change!

[The_ShamWOW88]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

It's also worth mentioning that this year will be the 25 Year Anniversary for FRC, so I think that is playing a role here as well.

Quarter century mark, quarterbacks throw footballs.....football game conf....I kid, I kid...


However, I do think this video will be interesting to see. I'm of the belief that the video itself won't show much more than FIRST promotional clips and hype to get those "outside the tent" interested in this whole robot thing....with a little , tiny, bone of a hint thrown at us wolves.....

[EDesbiens]

Originally Posted by The_ShamWOW88

with a little , tiny, bone of a hint thrown at us wolves.....

It's exactly the image of all FIRST participants when we discover the hint...

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by EricH

Doesn't ANYBODY remember the 2007 game hint? It showed a SCORED GAME PIECE.

And nobody got the hint fully right.


Think about that for a minute.

Not true - someone figured out the hint the same day it was posted. The image is gone, but Greg managed to correctly predict the game piece and the method of scoring fairly quickly.

Pedantic points about old game hints aside, I think this announcement is pretty big. Obviously, something is different enough about this game that we need to know about it two months in advance. That's unprecedented in FRC. In the era of ample COTS parts and a relatively stable set of rules, the main reason I can see FRC wanting to tell teams in advance is to avoid having them stocking up on parts they would need any other year, but not this year. Or possibly to prepare to drive and play on a drastically different field surface. To me this advance notice, combined with the several comments about how this is a game specific hint, implies that the hint will reveal that the game will be drastically different from anything in years' past.

[Ari423]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

...the main reason I can see FRC wanting to tell teams in advance is to avoid having them stocking up on parts they would need any other year, but not this year. Or possibly to prepare to drive and play on a drastically different field surface. To me this advance notice, combined with the several comments about how this is a game specific hint, implies that the hint will reveal that the game will be drastically different from anything in years' past.

Possible, but I would have thought that after the general disapproval of Recycle Rush (which I don't share) the GDC would go for something more traditional. I guess anything is possible, we'll just have to wait and see.

[Caleb Sykes]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

It's also worth mentioning that this year will be the 25 Year Anniversary for FRC, so I think that is playing a role here as well.

I bet that it's going to be some kind of football game, and they tie the 25th anniversary of FRC to Super Bowl 50.

My predicted game name: "Halftime!"

[Doug Frisk]

Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes

I bet that it's going to be some kind of football game, and they tie the 25th anniversary of FRC to Super Bowl 50.

My predicted game name: "Halftime!"

Makes sense, but is it going to be an aerial game or a ground game? Could it be an asymmetric game where one alliance is on offense and the other on defense?

[Daler99]

Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes

I bet that it's going to be some kind of football game, and they tie the 25th anniversary of FRC to Super Bowl 50.

My predicted game name: "Halftime!"

Then each match would be 1.25 minutes long? It autonomous is going to be half the match. (I'm kidding, BTW)

On a (slightly) more serious note, perhaps the GDC thinks that it'll take more than six weeks to figure out how to manipulate the gamepiece. For example: one of those rubber ducks that Frank posted a video of.

~Daler

[tindleroot]

Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes

My predicted game name: "Halftime!"

Get ready for robots that play instruments and march in time.

[dodar]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

It's also worth mentioning that this year will be the 25 Year Anniversary for FRC, so I think that is playing a role here as well.

Other interesting 2016 Anniversaries:

100th Anniversary of Einstein's Theory of Relativity
20th Anniversary of Dolly the Sheep being cloned

[Daler99]

Originally Posted by dodar

Other interesting 2016 Anniversaries:

100th Anniversary of Einstein's Theory of Relativity
20th Anniversary of Dolly the Sheep being cloned

"Introducing the 2016 FIRST Robotics Competition and this year's game, 'Halftime is Relative!'"

[EDesbiens]

Originally Posted by Daler99

"Introducing the 2016 FIRST Robotics Competition and this year's game, 'Halftime is Relative!'"

Introducing "We clone the Relative Halftime!"

[Daler99]

Originally Posted by EDesbiens

Introducing "We clone the Relative Halftime!"

Lol. That'd be something...