[FRC Blog] When is a Game Hint not a Game Hint?

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by pandamonium

Releasing a video in October lends even more credibility to the football theory. FIRST wants to create hype about the football game through out the football season. We still will not know what type of football game piece is used or how big the scoring target is.

What football theory? FIRST has never hinted at footballs.

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

I seriously expect that this is the case most years. Some of the more credible rumors indicate that games are at least rough-planned three or four years in advance. They just keep it under wraps until the last minute. Sometimes, the small size of the "need to know" group shows, as with the noodle agreement last year.

And as far as useless game hints are concerned, the 2009 video cited above gave no useful clues at all about the game or game pieces until the final still, when the empty cells and super cells were shown (without any sense of scale).

I'm keenly aware that this is almost always the case.

[mom1155]

'inside the tent' makes me think of mergers & acquisitions. Maybe a new model for alliances?

[Daler99]

Originally Posted by mom1155

'inside the tent' makes me think of mergers & acquisitions. Maybe a new model for alliances?

Maybe (like the step, truss, pyramids, bridges, etc ) 'the tent' will be a part of the field?

~Daler

[Justin Montois]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

What do you mean?

I mean I think theres a chance there will be enough shown for teams to spend the next 2 months prototyping at least some aspect of the game.based on their best interpretation of the video.

I do agree that the 2009 video is a great example of what I hope this teaser is. I'm just afraid they might give away too much.

[EDesbiens]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

I mean I think theres a chance there will be enough shown for teams to spend the next 2 months prototyping at least some aspect of the game.based on their best interpretation of the video.

I do agree that the 2009 video is a great example of what I hope this teaser is. I'm just afraid they might give away too much.

I don't think they'll give away too much... They know what to do and how to do it... The previous hints were nicely done...

[EricH]

Doesn't ANYBODY remember the 2007 game hint? It showed a SCORED GAME PIECE.

And nobody got the hint fully right.


Think about that for a minute.

[EDesbiens]

Originally Posted by EricH

Doesn't ANYBODY remember the 2007 game hint? It showed a SCORED GAME PIECE.

And nobody got the hint fully right.


Think about that for a minute.

It's the first time I see this hint and I love it

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by EricH

Doesn't ANYBODY remember the 2007 game hint? It showed a SCORED GAME PIECE.

And nobody got the hint fully right.


Think about that for a minute.

Not true - someone figured out the hint the same day it was posted. The image is gone, but Greg managed to correctly predict the game piece and the method of scoring fairly quickly.

Pedantic points about old game hints aside, I think this announcement is pretty big. Obviously, something is different enough about this game that we need to know about it two months in advance. That's unprecedented in FRC. In the era of ample COTS parts and a relatively stable set of rules, the main reason I can see FRC wanting to tell teams in advance is to avoid having them stocking up on parts they would need any other year, but not this year. Or possibly to prepare to drive and play on a drastically different field surface. To me this advance notice, combined with the several comments about how this is a game specific hint, implies that the hint will reveal that the game will be drastically different from anything in years' past.

[Rangel(kf7fdb)]

Originally Posted by EricH

Doesn't ANYBODY remember the 2007 game hint? It showed a SCORED GAME PIECE.

And nobody got the hint fully right.


Think about that for a minute.

I think I sort of got this last year's right (This was also before the leak)
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...&postcount=149

In all honesty though, I don't think anyone could get the significant details of the game right with just the hints. Well except maybe for 2007.

[MikLast]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

I do agree that the 2009 video is a great example of what I hope this teaser is. I'm just afraid they might give away too much.

Mind linking the hint? im having trouble finding the actual hints, just guesses on when they would come out.

While trying to find what the hint was, i found this gem:

Originally Posted by Seat Ninja

What about a game with pool noodles. You would have to gather them from an overhead storage area or off the floor and put them through holes in the player stations. I saw a similar idea on a FIRST chatroom somewhere and refined it (if you can call it that). What do you think?

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by MikLast

Mind linking the hint? im having trouble finding the actual hints, just guesses on when they would come out.

Post 14 of this very thread. Video.

[MikLast]

Originally Posted by Christopher149

Post 14 of this very thread. Video.

my bad for missing that, thank you.

[RufflesRidge]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

I would be curious to see if anyone with some time on their hands to make a trailer using any prior years game that wouldn't give away 90% of the game.

Someone did it way back in 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2PVBqi9dyE

[Caleb Sykes]

This should be awesome. I'm looking forward to it.