ive noticed the game piece every year has to do with the symbols of first so this years game was the circle and same with last years the year before was the triangle any guesses what shape next will be im thinking a the square
idk i think they are gonna go circle because it looked like square didnt do well with the boxes
i’m guessing balls again.
07- nonball (tube)
06- ball (shooting)
05- nonball (tetra)
04- ball
03- nonball (crates)
02- ball (i think)
that’s as far back as my knowledge goes, so, continuing this trend, 08 will be a ball game.
Just my $.02 worth
I’m sorry, but you misssed the earlier threads on this subject. I am not even sure quite where they are now. However, a little analysis of the years I know about shows:
1997: tubes (circle)
1998: large balls (circle)
1999: floppies (circle), octagonal “puck”
2000: balls (circle)
2001: balls (circle), balancing bridge
2002: balls (circle)
2003: bins (square)
2004: balls (circle)
2005: tetras (triangle)
2006: balls (circle)
2007: tubes (circle)
There is not a trend to use the FIRST logo shapes. If anything, there is a trend to alternate balls with other objects (and even that is debateable). Next year will probably be balls (unless FIRST decides to do a water game, which they likely won’t.)
Awe, come on. Not already. I was planning on sleeping this year…
How can guess something that’s probably barely been officially discussed? Lets give it a break for a bit 
I think it’s gonna be another circle game, just because circles are such an easy shape to manipulate and do weird things with.
About your comment on the water game - I really don’t think FIRST would make that dramatic of a change without VERY fair warning. Making electronics work out of water can be tricky enough depending on your setup, but now you have to make everything waterproof? I don’t think it’s gonna happen.
You could probably find some more ideas in these and various other places:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51848&highlight=2008+game
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55215&highlight=water+game
Search is your friend. 
Hope you can find the discussion you’re looking for.
that’s easy… “predict” something that the GDC likes and then uses so you influence the game…
SO-O-O…
I think it will be a Giant game of Fuzzball with a big Pilates ball getting knocked around.
Or maybe a giant game of pick-up sticks with the different colors counting for different amounts and we’d use sticks that are batons.
Take your pick Game Design Committee… and I do’nt even need credit…
We all know what the game is going to be. The field is a layer of jell-o, the scoring elements are Krispie Kreames, and all the while red, blue and green lights flash on and off, all underwater.
It’s going to be a game of chase the Segway judges 
Duh! I already know.
There will be robots!
I agree with the idea of a ball. It seems to me that it makes the most sense. I think it will not be a ball in the way it has been in the past though. It might be a football (which would add variety to the manipulators) or a medicine ball (I think that the weight would ensure that there is more of durability factor and would create more work to keep the robot strong and light). Either of these would greatly increase the difficulty and unique nature of the game.
Just as kwelch, I would be honored if my ideas were used in the next game.
They are going to prove us all wrong and have multiple game pieces that are squares, circles, triangles, and balls all at the same time.
So…we take a square bin, place an inverted tetra in it, into which a medicine ball is placed and the entire set is place on a moving platform. Sweet.
Oh and you have to Assemble the tetra from pieces lying on the field!!!
What do you think?
I think it will be a water game cause at the End of the Kick off video it shows woody and Dean in the water thinking about what next years game is going to be. Hey just a thought
Already been debunked. So has the entire concept of a water game (unless you happen to be in the underwater robotics competition that team 842 is putting on). “Logistical nightmare” sums up half the objections; “electrical nightmare” sums up the other half. For more information, do a search on “water game”.
i think its either gonna be balls or tubes…yet i think it will be most likely balls…maybe a hand eye cordination type thing…you know throw it through a tube maybe a moving tube…etc:ahh: :ahh: :ahh:
I don’t think they would have the balls again. Cause a couple of years ago, I heard the game with the balls kinda failed
Balls are the most likely suspect. The pattern for the past few years has been balls, something crazy, balls, something crazy, repeat as necessary. Also, it’s hard to find something that isn’t a ball that is a) available nationwide in the dead of winter (or can be made that way) and b) relatively easy for a robot to handle. That isn’t saying that the pattern can’t be broken, though. (And the '04 game was designed more for hanging, while the '06 camera scoring system was not implemented very well. Nothing wrong with the cameras, just the software.)