Official FIRST Stronghold Teaser!

[Trevor1523]

What we saw this year with the announcement of the 2015/2016 FTC game was that it was much more complicated than the previous years. With all the strings, pulleys, etc..

We may see the same pattern carry over to FRC... I'm ready.

[logank013]

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

Not sure how this video is supposed to get the general public interested and excited about FIRST......

It could go either way. I shared this with my good friend who isn't involved in first. She watched it and was a little confused. Then I told her "it's the game hint for the 2016 game" and she then responded saying how she now understands why I'm so excited. So just explain its a game hint and the non foresters can understand the point of the video.

[jakehansen451]

Just a thought, I believe that the alternating trend of even years being ball games and odd years being non-ball games has been in place since 1996-1997, and hasn't been broken since 2001 (arguably 2009). I might be wrong on that, but it seems to me there's a pretty good chance that the main game piece will be a ball.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Poseidon1671

That was my first thought. The flag is also included in the FIRST Stronghold logo, and based on past experiences, game pieces are almost always in the logo (except for Recycle Rush). More than likely, we will see the flag on the field somehow.

Ya know, maybe they'll step away from the color-coded bumpers and go back to the flags of '06-'08 for alliance identification.

[Darkseer54]

I think it might be a single flag bearing robot with two defenders/offenders on each side, and end up with something similar to king of the hill. I feel like flags would be a very difficult gamepiece though b/c of entanglement.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

Not sure how this video is supposed to get the general public interested and excited about FIRST......

Agreed. It didn't even get me excited, and the only reaction I'm seeing is about it being a game hint, not that the video was amazing.

[Sierra3883]

I still cannot figure out why they decided to release the game name. Especially that they released it so early, should we be scared or excited for this game?

[Shrub]

I saw it, and it might be the DayQuil brain fog, but I thought it was the Grand Tourney expansion from Hearthstone. I'd pay so much for a robo-murloc.

[Tom Line]

There is a red flag, and a blue flag. Two alliances. We already know substantial changes to the field size and shape are highly unlikely because of gym requirements at a lot of districts.

Pretty clear that the robot has the flag on it and they're all staring at a tower with no flag.

I think it's a game piece transference game, where the flag raises as additional weight in the form of game pieces are added to a platform of some type. I suspect there will be a rule against de-scoring or the field will simply prohibit it. Points awards to how high your flag is at the end of the match, with some bonus if you make it before time is up.

Those game pieces are universal, so both teams can take as many as they can get, but robots can only carry 1 game piece at a time.

Same style of scoring as last year though, where you're not competing with the other team - aggregate scores determine ranking.

[Travis Hoffman]

[pagoglia]

Midevil theme could be there to throw us off. Tug of war? Defend the homeland? They show team building bot in daylight. Then robot has functioning lights in a dark sky with lightening. Why lights?? Perhaps played in partial darkness?? And the lightening - Back to the Future ????

[Tom Line]

Originally Posted by Sierra3883

I still cannot figure out why they decided to release the game name. Especially that they released it so early, should we be scared or excited for this game?

Games are done well in advance of the season.

[Masterchi45]

I think the alliances are going to be bigger this! This one looks epic! Better than the last few games

[Trey178]

Originally Posted by EricH

Ya know, maybe they'll step away from the color-coded bumpers and go back to the flags of '06-'08 for alliance identification.

Bumpers were confirmed to return a few weeks ago. It's unlikely they'll be different from its many previous incarnations. But for all I know they could color the team numbers and have a solid, neutral color for the cover.

[Sierra3883]

Originally Posted by Tom Line

Games are done well in advance of the season.

Yes but my point is why release it? The fun of kickoff is finally figuring it all out at once yet for them to release a big part like the name in video form, it takes fun away from kickoff and creates wonder in all of us. Why would they choose this year to release their first game hint with the name itself. In past years it's been jumbles of numbers that none of us can solve yet why this year are they telling us all so soon?