[FRC Blog] The 2017 FRC Season Teaser and More!

[TheBoulderite]

Originally Posted by Hitchhiker 42

As a serious prediction, many of the FIRST games generally follow a similar theme. Cases in point:

• 2015 - Trash theme (Trash tek, Recycle Rush, Waste wise)
• 2016 - Medieval theme (Res-Q, Stronghold)
• 2017 - Animals?

EDIT: FTC seems to be a better indicator than FLL, so we might just have to wait until September 10th for the FTC release. Maybe the teaser will be released the same day.

Res-Q didn't really have a medieval theme to it...

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by Hitchhiker 42

As a serious prediction, many of the FIRST games generally follow a similar theme. Cases in point:

• 2015 - Trash theme (Trash tek, Recycle Rush, Waste wise)
• 2016 - Medieval theme (Res-Q, Stronghold)
• 2017 - Animals?

EDIT: FTC seems to be a better indicator than FLL, so we might just have to wait until September 10th for the FTC release. Maybe the teaser will be released the same day.

Originally Posted by TheBoulderite

Res-Q didn't really have a medieval theme to it...

Waste Wise was the FLL Jr. of Trash Trek.

The better example I think is Climbing Game - FIRST Res-Q, FIRST Stronghold, Animal Allies (there is a climbing wall), though this spans two different competitions years, so did Recycle Rush / Trash Trek.

[orangemoore]

Originally Posted by TheBoulderite

Res-Q didn't really have a medieval theme to it...

Yeah...

I'm not really sure how it relates to a Medieval theme.

Also there was this that showed up on the FTC website.

[ctt956]

Originally Posted by orangemoore

Yeah...

I'm not really sure how it relates to a Medieval theme.

Also there was this that showed up on the FTC website.

Maybe FTC games are more similar to the previous year's FRC game?

[frcguy]

Originally Posted by ctt956

Maybe FTC games are more similar to the previous year's FRC game?

Don't think so. From what I saw of Res-Q at Maker Faire this year it looked pretty different from Recycle Rush.

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by frcguy

Don't think so. From what I saw of Res-Q at Maker Faire this year it looked pretty different from Recycle Rush.

Yea its nothing like it. Res-Q didn't really remind me of any past FRC game. Maybe future though?

Mountain Game 2017

[Hitchhiker 42]

Maybe it's just for me (and maybe I'm forcing this connection), but Res-Q did seem similar in style to Stronghold. Mountains and stones for strongholds go together.

[AndyBare]

Initially when I read, I saw the word Space, and later the word Bass. So I said hmm... Space... Base... then I thought of the Space Race. The world's competition to get the first very advanced peek into space, which started during the Cold War, fueled the race to launch the first satellites to orbit the Earth.

After reading above about the travel to Jupiter in 2001: A Space Odyssey (I've never watched it because of the amount of "static action"), I looked into it. Jupiter has a plethora of moons, 67 known in fact, and I also found that Galileo discovered the first 4. What are they known as? The Galilean Satellites. Galileo's discovery of these moons was when he discovered the orbit, the curved path around a star, planet, or moon.

That's all I've got.