Official FIRST Stronghold Teaser!

[Trey178]

Originally Posted by logank013

Source? I believe you but I'm curious.

Check this out...

It's not the exact post I first found, but it gets the point across.

[James1902]

Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell

The goal was to get more excitement outside of FIRST people. A normal hint has no chance to get people into the game, but a teaser video might.

You know what might get people excited about a robotics competition...video of robots competing.

I don't understand FIRST's obsession with promoting everything but the fact that FIRST is freaking ROBOTS PLAYING SPORTS! We don't need themes to make people think that's cool, we need more stuff like RoboLeague. The drama comes from the competition, not the theme.

All that aside: Cool game name, interested to see what it turns out to actually be.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by James1902

You know what might get people excited about a robotics competition...video of robots competing.

I don't understand FIRST's obsession with promoting everything but the fact that FIRST is freaking ROBOTS PLAYING SPORTS! We don't need themes to make people think that's cool, we need more stuff like RoboLeague. The drama comes from the competition, not the theme.

All that aside: Cool game name, interested to see what it turns out to actually be.

Agreed. If they were trying to appeal to adult engineers and high school students, this wasn't the best way to do it.

[GeeTwo]

Stronghold was the protagonsist's family name in Disney's Sky High. I think that this year's game will favor Technopaths (the Stronghold Family's arch enemy is Royal Pain, a tecnopath, an individual who can control technology through mental processes). Maybe you need to build a pacifier to turn everyone into infants...

OBTW, do you know who did the video? - yes, Disney! Finally, if anyone doubts Disney's resolve at pulling wild back-references, look at the scene where they show the old Sky High yearbook. The photo of Pere Stronghold is very clearly borrowed from The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, a Disney movie from the late 60's.

The primary alternative to technopathy is that the robot will be required, like Will Stronghold, to have both super-strength and the ability to fly.

Good Luck, teams!

[jpetito]

Totes yes. Other stuff? The knock-em-down stack-em-up thing has a lot to be said for it. Do defense or offense? Build or destroy? Like our efforts in 2013, you can't have it all, and building a machine that will do one thing requires more intense teamwork.

[Doug Frisk]

Originally Posted by Jacob Bendicksen

Anyone know if the current fields could be re-assembled like this?

It wouldn't make sense because the drivers station would be blocking the audience view. That is assuming the field is oriented as normal. If it were rotated 90 degrees it would impact layout at many sites potentially making basketball courts difficult to work on and it would still impact the view from the stands.

That said, a layout like that wouldn't be any more difficult to build than the 8 sided layout we had this year.

[Ginger Power]

The Blog post title was "The Teaser is Coming"... I was so to posting this. What a missed opportunity...

[Darkseer54]

I don't know how much this was actually aimed at people who aren't in FIRST. It doesn't explain FIRST at all. I think that Frank just wanted to make a tent pun.

[TheRozb]

Hmmm... the thing with the blueprint... doesn't that all seem a bit too obvious? After all, we do have 2.5 months until Kickoff, and in the past years, the hints have been pretty obscure. It can't be that easy... Still excited, although, I am admittedly bummed that they told us the name so early.

[corriii_16]

Okay! After watching about 17 times, I think I can agree with most about the capture the flag idea. Maybe it'll be like racing to complete a checklist ASAP and then hanging you team flag high. Griffins vs. Dragons

#SorrynotSorry Team 1796 RoboTigers

[logank013]

Originally Posted by TheRozb

Hmmm... the thing with the blueprint... doesn't that all seem a bit too obvious? After all, we do have 2.5 months until Kickoff, and in the past years, the hints have been pretty obscure. It can't be that easy... Still excited, although, I am admittedly bummed that they told us the name so early.

Think back to 2015 game hint. All the game hint did was reveal to a smart thinker the word "recycle". All that did was help give us the game title but even that wasn't fully confirmed. This year, they've already released so much about the game in comparison. Nobody last year could have been able to tell that we could be stacking totes and cans all season. But this year, we already know the name and can tell the game should be involving defense and the capturing if some item. Plus more speculations. Nothing is obvious in this video but this year's hint isn't so obscure as years past. And the game hint for 2015 made 100% sense when the game was released. I'm sure the hint with make a lot of sense once we know the game.

[Ginger Power]

I have a sneaking suspicion that our drivetrains will need to have a strong hold on the ground this year.

[tsobey]

Hey, so I just wanted to point out something that hasn't been mentioned up till now. There have been video games titled "Stronghold" such as:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong...001_video_game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong...993_video_game)

I have played neither of these and thus know very little about them. I just want to throw these out there so that we don't get too caught up with the whole CTF idea.

[D.Allred]

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

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

Me neither. On the surface it has students building robots to face a challenge. But the animation style looked like it targeted a younger than high school age group.

So, would it grab your attention to check out the website? I'll show it to a few people not associated with FIRST.

For those of us inside the tent, there are a gillion details we can chase until Jan 9th.

David

[Madison]

I can't abide by LARPing at a robotics competition.