The Not So-Secret Secret End-Game

[BWeldon]

I can't help but think that the name is the clue. What about this challenge, as it is, has to do with anything aerial?

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by BWeldon

I can't help but think that the name is the clue. What about this challenge, as it is, has to do with anything aerial?

The balls. Being shot in the AIR. Aerial.

[Thad House]

Aerial can also be in reference to the 6 inch extension that robots can have, which could be considered an antenna.

[Wildcats1378]

Originally Posted by Libby K

The balls. Being shot in the AIR. Aerial.

It is a pretty small part of the game though... You don't even have the throw them in the air. Does have a small point.

[JosephC]

Originally Posted by Wildcats1378

It is a pretty small part of the game though... You don't even have the throw them in the air. Does have a small point.

Throwing balls can earn you an addition 29 points per run. And even more in autonomous. I'd say its a fairly decent part of the game.

[chibi_mechanic]

Though your idea is very valid, I doubt that FIRST would subject us to such torment by throwing new rules and requirements at us mid-season. I may be a rookie, but I've done my research on a lot of past competitions as well as looked through many old posts on this site. I've never heard of a surprise endgame that wasn't heavily hinted. Usually FIRST makes it quite obvious what our tasks must be, and don't like to throw in surprises, nor do they enjoy creating new rules. I have no worries about this game, but I would not discount it entirely. Keep the notion in the back of your heads, but I wouldn't rely on this rumor.

~Rose Emma, Mechanic, Rookie

[brrian27]

We're ready.

[starbound1332]

It hasn't been revealed yet, but I want to know what this year's endgame is. Leave your thoughts here!

[Jay O'Donnell]

Who says there will be one?

[Iaquinto.Joe]

There isn't one. Please speculate in the thread already chock-full of conspiracy theorists and dumb ideas.

[SenorZ]

Read the FRC Blog.
They rarely flat-out lie to us.
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...ther-Fun-Stuff

[orangemoore]

I am going to trust Frank that he didn't lie to our faces in saying that there isn't an end game.

I think this thread should be locked.

[Kevin Sevcik]

BWAHAHAHHAHA.


That is all.

[cadandcookies]

I appreciate Frank more than ever for nipping this speculation at the bud.

[mrnoble]

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

I appreciate Frank more than ever for nipping this speculation at the bud.

A very straightforward statement, clearly there shouldn't be any question now.

I stayed off this thread for a while, but now have a few things I'd like to share. It became clear to me that there was no hidden game this week. If there had been, I would have expected to see posts or hints from the GDC, and quite quickly; nothing. The kicker was the rules update that said a ball stuck on the truss could be dislodged by having a ref shake it. No way that truss was being used for anything else if it wasn't bolted to the floor! And how would they bolt it, anyway, given the nature of the venues?

Ah well. Occam wins! But people who took this seriously enough to be unkind to others who speculated differently than themselves, on either side of the debate, didn't win in my reckoning. Let's not turn CD into Facebook.