[FRC Blog] Kickoff!

[TDav540]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Is the banana a game hint?

Banana for scale

[PopeRyanI]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Is the banana a game hint?

Well, it could be the game element. It would fit the pattern. Besides the whole steamworks thing, but that doesn't really matter.

Originally Posted by TDav540

Banana for scale

Scaling endgame confirmed?

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by TDav540

Banana for scale

Slip on banana peel, fall down manhole, get pumped through steam plant, launch upward out of smokestack, land in gondola of hot air balloon, ...

Typical steampunk adventure.

[Bkeeneykid]

Anyone else now have that test stream in a permanent background window just incase? You never know where they're going to hide those game hints.

[Foster]

And Ryan is back for the start of the season!!

[Sam Skoglund]

"Like you're in the subway, looking down the tunnel, waiting, and you think you hear a noise, and feel a rumble, and suddenly this magnificent multi-ton metal monstrosity clanks and rattles and thunders into view, stops with its doors at your feet, opens them with a whoosh, and politely invites you to climb aboard with a smiling "and how is your day?". It's like that!"

Game Hint???

[ctt956]

Originally Posted by Sam Skoglund

"Like you're in the subway, looking down the tunnel, waiting, and you think you hear a noise, and feel a rumble, and suddenly this magnificent multi-ton metal monstrosity clanks and rattles and thunders into view, stops with its doors at your feet, opens them with a whoosh, and politely invites you to climb aboard with a smiling "and how is your day?". It's like that!"

Game Hint???

Definitely.

[Ichlieberoboter]

Originally Posted by Sam Skoglund

"Like you're in the subway, looking down the tunnel, waiting, and you think you hear a noise, and feel a rumble, and suddenly this magnificent multi-ton metal monstrosity clanks and rattles and thunders into view, stops with its doors at your feet, opens them with a whoosh, and politely invites you to climb aboard with a smiling "and how is your day?". It's like that!"

Game Hint???

Dude that's what I'm thinking maybe something with a train or train tracks..?

[tjf]

My only point of contention is that quite a few schools block TwitchTV. Simulcasting to YouTube and Twitch may have been a better way to go.

At least the game reveal video is on YouTube regardless

[dirtbikerxz]

Originally Posted by tjf

My only point of contention is that quite a few schools block TwitchTV. Simulcasting to YouTube and Twitch may have been a better way to go.

At least the game reveal video is on YouTube regardless

Our school blocks it, but luckily teachers can sign in and "bypass" the block

[MechEng83]

Originally Posted by tjf

My only point of contention is that quite a few schools block TwitchTV. Simulcasting to YouTube and Twitch may have been a better way to go.

At least the game reveal video is on YouTube regardless

This.

Twitch is blocked in most schools. Fail, FIRST. Fail.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by MechEng83

This.

Twitch is blocked in most schools. Fail, FIRST. Fail.

ChiefDelphi was blocked when I started with 1618 back in 2006. The teacher went to the district IT people, stated the case, and it was unblocked.

The last two years when I was the Kickoff coordinator for South Carolina, we got streaming information well in advance with opportunities to test it with a dummy video and make any needed adjustments with the IT staff (if only for the weekend).

I'm not a Kickoff coordinator this year, so I don't know when the email went out to coordinators. But this isn't their first time at the rodeo.

[MooreteP]

A train on rails has been discussed in past game designs ideas.
Makes sense with Steam Engines.
Getting on board?
Loading a coal car?

Moving a train up an inclined rail track for the endgame would be an engaging spectacle for spectators.

Oh gravity.

[mwmac]

End game with elevating alliance partners as in 2007?

[ctt956]

I saw "BREAK AWAY" in the test video...So will there be a similarity to 2010?