Official FIRST Stronghold Teaser!

[Foster]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

There's blood in the water and the Piranhas are biting. It's CD. This thread is gonna have legs all the way til January 9th.

THIS should be a spotlight post!!!

[minch1396]

Originally Posted by TheThings

Capture the flag

If it's capture the flag then imagine more than three teams to an alliance??

[Zac Schofield]

I thought that it was interesting that on the official banner they have on the usfirst website, it also has green & yellow. While it's unlikely, I think it would be cool if there was 4 alliances somehow.

[MathFreak]

Here's what I thought:

Last year I've read about some alliances leaving one of the alliance members "disabled" so that the other two could score higher by themselves, does "Together" mean that the all the three teams have to do something together to score?

I'm curious about the robot's eyes lighting up in the video, does that mean the field will be dark (or have some huge box inside the field) and the robots need the light to see the field?

"Rally your kingdom" might be related with the teams' relationship (support and stuff) with their community

and I feel weird about the tilted logo too...

[RocketDean]

Did anybody notice that Dozer no longer has a "dozer" and now has hands with fingers?

[Foster]

Originally Posted by RocketDean

Did anybody notice that Dozer no longer has a "dozer" and now has hands with fingers?

Because thats his 1/2 brother Gripper.

[g_sawchuk]

Originally Posted by bhaidet

It's an even year, so we get a "ball" game. Probably kinda typical shoot to score. Possibly knocking into something (stone wall, if you believe the theme) rather than simply going through a hole? If I run with that too far I start imagining angry birds...
The endgame may involve transporting a minibot-like flag to a tower and raising it. FIRST really likes hints about endgames because they don't reveal much actual gameplay.

And who says that they will continue the trend?
If they're bringing back bumpers, expect a game where there will be some aggressive game play either robot on robot or field on robot. If there was actually a field that could do damage to robots, that may be a concern, and I wouldn't expect FIRST to do something like that.
Secondly, many are suggesting a flag as a game piece. The possible issue with this is the durability of a flag. If the game does end up being capture the flag, I expect it to be a game piece that is not the shape of a flag, but symbolizes a flag (something more durable).

[olapmonkey]

I am feeling trebuchets and catapults

[CadetGizmo]

Honestly, the middle part of the alleged game field reminds me of a moat and drawbridge. I think that would be a cool aspect, sort of like a king-of-the-hill-ish feature.

Plus, moat means water game confirmed ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[Jay Burnett]

Originally Posted by Zac Schofield

I thought that it was interesting that on the official banner they have on the usfirst website, it also has green & yellow. While it's unlikely, I think it would be cool if there was 4 alliances somehow.

Also in that picture, the Red tent has a Blue flag and the Green tent has a Yellow Flag (in the bottom left corner)

[JohnBoucher]

A little Monty Python for you

[natejo99]

Originally Posted by Zac Schofield

I thought that it was interesting that on the official banner they have on the usfirst website, it also has green & yellow. While it's unlikely, I think it would be cool if there was 4 alliances somehow.

That would be a really interesting dynamic to a game... It'd be extremely intruiging to see how the alliances interacted.

[CadetGizmo]

Another thing I'm curious about is how the teaser image says "Build your champion."

It's probably referring to build season, but what if it isn't? Maybe modifications are required on the fly? Plus, it says champion as a singular word, rather than champions. I'd assume this is just referring to singular teams. "Rally your kingdom" probably refers to alliances.

This is probably mumbo jumbo, but maybe it's worth noting?...

[Tweedy399]

Has anyone notice the shadows on the blueprints? Is it just me or do they look symmetrical?

[DaveL]

Originally Posted by Mitchell1714

A few observations after watching 10 times:

1. The beginning of the video where all the students are around the tents appears to resemble the pits and they later go to the field.
2. At 20 seconds there are 6 students in blue and 1 mentor in red looking at the robot in the pits. At 41 seconds there are 6 students and no mentor driving the robot. Will the GDC change the rules to disallow mentors to be robo-coaches?
3. At 41 seconds it is clear this is the drive team. 2 students have xbox controllers and are driving the robot. 1 student is in between the drivers instructing them. 1 student is standing off to the side with a flag, human player with game piece? Then there are 2 students in the back with their hands in the air as fists, what are they doing? Are they on the drive team?
4. The robot has 8 wheel tank drive. That was done on purpose, it would be easier to animate a 4 wheel or 6 wheel tank drive so there must be some driving obstacle.
5. In "the pits" in the beginning you can see the tower. There will likely be a large field element you can see from the pits.
6. Also in "the pits" in the beginning of the video, some tents (individual teams pits) have blue, red, or yellow flags, some have no flags. Why would we need to put flags in our pits? Could it be to symbolize what position in the game we are playing,ranking in qualification matches, something else?
7. The new improved plowie is made out of stones from the castle. Will a robot itself be the Stronghold?
8. At 23 seconds, why are 2 students putting a flag over the robot and at 25 seconds why is a student taking a brush to the robot? These 2 events are completely unrelated to the story-line.
9. At 42 seconds the robot's arms are in a karate fighting position. I assume this means the robot will have a manipulator come out of the bumper perimeter to interact with game pieces.
10.The video has a lot of flags in it. Will they be the game piece?
11. I have not figured out the blueprints yet.

These are just some ideas from the first hour of thinking about it. Don't take them too seriously.

This is great. I think the flag over a robot indicates that it died.
The 4 flag colors might mean that there will be 4 alliances. Having 2 robots per alliance for a total of 8 robots on the field at once would allow more teams to compete at once.

Looking at the blueprints, I think there will be gates that will have to be opened.
Will there be gate keepers, like in the Holy Grail?

Dave