Official FIRST STEAMWORKS Teaser and DLC Pack 1!

[youngace89]

Anyone else wondering what this thing is? It doesn't look like anything I've seen on a robot before...

[troy_dietz]

Originally Posted by EricH

Personally, I think I've got a prediction as to who's going to win the Championship.
1577, 1761, 3204, and 4057 had better form an alliance this year, somewhere, somehow. (That's two steampunks and two steampunk animals.) Finalists will include 3966 and 4531 (both STEMpunk).

4515 is Calvert STEAM Works

[Darkseer54]

My guess is FLL minibots that "mine coal." That's why they had the shoveling soundbite.

Football game (blimps) where there are two large circular targets (the goggles in the logo).

[jlbimson]

Maybe it will be launching footballs into a boiler goal, with a minibot endgame of sorts?

[JayNico]

Originally Posted by Karibou

I'm interested to know why the clock reads 1:08 (or 13:08, or 1:07/13:07). I can't imagine that's a random time.

So steampunk is typically in London right
So
13:08 would be August 13th in their date system right
So

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_13
Tying back into London and UK, on that day "1913 – First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley."
Going back to water speculation, "1895 – István Barta, Hungarian water polo player (d. 1948)" was born. Coincidence?
The alliances are going to be three robots each, "29 BC – Octavian holds the first of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes."

Now that's all very interesting, but what exactly happened during the year 1308?
Well, "approx. date – Dante Alighieri begins to write the Divine Comedy." In that book, there are 9 circles of Hell, which indicates that there will be three alliances on the field at once, but they will each be three teams as usual if you recall the August 13 in 29 BC.

But! There are 4 circles on the wall in the workshop (clock, 2 gears, and some smooth one). The fourth circle of Hell is Greed. Teams are going to have to steal game objects from other teams. This ties in with the ninth circle of Hell, which is Treachery. In the end game period, that's when this element will come into play. The game length will be divisible by nine. HOOOOOLD UP though. As my friend just pointed out, 9 is also 1 plus 8, or the clock time.

Not done yet though. As someone in the thread pointed out, the clock is in Roman Numerals. Let's take it back to good ol August 13th, this time in 582. "582 – Maurice becomes Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire." After our good friend Maurice became Emperor, he fought against the Sassanid Persians. When he succeeded, he abolished the extensive taxes that the Romans had been required to the Persians in order for peace. Remember the fourth circle of Hell?

You thought I was done with Maurice, didn't you. "In 602, a dissatisfied general named Phocas usurped the throne, having Maurice and his six sons executed." That's a whooole bunch of treachery, innit?

Well, that's all I got for now. Watch the skies.

[euhlmann]

Originally Posted by JayNico

Apparently 1:08 in Mark goes
"I indeed have baptized you with water, but He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.”
Sooooooo that involves water, and steam can appear to be ghostlike ? Checking around for references to the other numbers

^^ that's exactly why the clock was set to that. It's a red herring for a "water game"

[Kingland093]

My prediction is:

Object of the game is to launch some sort of device that is on the alliance wall (blimp thing?) Game pieces are the cogs. Cogs are placed at different heights on the blimp. Once all the cogs are in place, the blimp launches.

Guessing it's a hybrid of logomotion and Stronghold. Maybe drone mini-bots?

[FrisbeeFunTime]

Originally Posted by youngace89

Anyone else wondering what this thing is? It doesn't look like anything I've seen on a robot before...
Attachment 21060

It's a new radio.

[Maplecat21]

I did some searching on The Blue Alliance about 1330, and through a string of years got to the team "Robots of the Round Table" (Team 2007, from Thunderducks (2004) from 1330's rookie year), which may be a reference to last year's game.

[Zealii]

I don't know if this has already been said, but the band at Opening Ceremonies this year was steampunk. Coincidence? I think not.
Sincerely your 2016 DL Winners

[Maffalfa]

Originally Posted by wajirock

The gears in the logo makes me think that game piece will be gears, and the robots will have to place said gears in a certain configuration in order to "activate" some sort of "device", possibly the blimp. Activation of the machine would be similar to capturing the tower. But the whole Steampunk concept is far from the futuristic theme everyone was buzzing about.

I agree with your theory, would be really interesting.

[ArthurA]

Originally Posted by Schoolboy Q

So are you saying anyone who's on a FIRST team for artistic purposes should just go ahead and quit? FIRST as an organization should only pay attention to those "who will actually make it"

Of course not, but the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics are very closely linked in both subject matter and the issues that they face (but are still very diverse). Including Art, a field that is completely unrelated, and important for reasons that are entirely separate from the reasons that STEM subjects are seems disingenuous to me. STEAM is an acronym that loses its way for the want of including too many fields - it becomes a platitude that loses all meaning.

[bchina]

I noticed that there a few references to goggles, specifically in the Recruitment Poster #2. Maybe they are going beyond safety glasses and potentially introduce VR in some way? Maybe to simulate flying?

[natejo99]

Originally Posted by Zealii

I don't know if this has already been said, but the band at Opening Ceremonies this year was steampunk. Coincidence? I think not.
Sincerely your 2016 DL Winners

One of our mentors pointed out the same thing, I hadn't even thought about it. A little preliminary hint, I guess

[Philip Arola]

Originally Posted by ArthurA

Of course not, but the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics are very closely linked in both subject matter and the issues that they face (but are still very diverse). Including Art, a field that is completely unrelated, and important for reasons that are entirely separate from the reasons that STEM subjects are seems disingenuous to me. STEAM is an acronym that loses its way for the want of including too many fields - it becomes a platitude that loses all meaning.

Precisely how I feel. Art is an important craft that has many technical aspects, but it is a totally separate field from STEM. There is a very good way to put this.

STEM is objective, art is subjective.

Shoehorning art into STEM essentially turns STEAM into a banner which covers practically all subjects.