No, go back to bed. Enjoy your summer! Don’t worry about it until either the end of December when you and your team reorganize for the build season.
I hope you reorganize before the end of December 
No really though, good point, don’t worry about next years game, worry about how you are going to improve your team and your community.
I don’t get it; am I missing some sort of old FIRST inside joke?
Several members of the GDC are CD members. Occasionally, they drop clues (or not…or maybe…or not…or yes…or maybe…or not…you get the picture). Aidan is one of said GDC members. As such, anything he says may be a) counted as a hint, b) misinterpreted, twisted, taken out of context, etc., c) be assumed to be a hint, or d) assumed to be a hint for a game that isn’t yet planned, and is later than the next year. There are others who have the same sort of stigma.
In this case, Aidan posted “mumbling” in a thread about the 2010 game hint. This promptly started joking speculation about when the hint was for (see d) above). This happens every time something of this sort happens; don’t worry, it’s normal.
Oh, I get it. I figured it was something like that, I just didn’t have the specifics. Thanks for that bit of history.
I’m just sittin back, relaxing, and enjoying the offseason:cool:
I also think there will be minimum need of a human player.
Maybe a new hybrid combo.
I know they’re generally not posted for awhile, but how and where to clues come out? Does Dave Laverley (did I spell that right?) post them here, or does FIRST send out official links to their site to all teams where clues can be seen?
They come out december. Thye are released in one of 3 way: a FIRST email, posted on FIRST’s site, or they are posted on bill’s(http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/) blog.
Ah. Thanks for the info.
This was how it was done for 2009. Who knows what FIRST will do in the future. Maybe next year Dave will send each team a plastic lawn flamingo or a pool noodle (for the water game) Or who knows, maybe FIRST will decide they dont want to give us a clue which we will all assume means that we will be blinded for part of the match (repeat for 20 pages) Point is, what happened this year does NOT mean that it will happen next year.
The first 2008 clue (a circuit board) was physically mailed to each team.
Please don’t give Mr. Lavery any more ideas 
I know he wont send us a flamingo, an ostrich on the other hand.
Dave may also start making random comments about bananas, jello, and similar items. Or post a strange picture. This “hint” is not to be taken seriously.
At my post-season banquet, one of the lead mentors on my team, Charlie Affel Senior, claimed he had clues as to what the game would be next year. He game one of these to each member of the drive team (except the coach (me) for some reason) saying that they would be used in next year’s game. He claimed to have gotten them because he’s been involved in FIRST for so long; however, I think this is a bit of b.s. Sure, he’s been in FIRST for over half my age, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to get the game clue in the end of March, before Nationals have even happened, right?
Shenanigans! I’m pretty sure that the GDC hasn’t even gotten around to designing this year’s field yet.
Nobody knows what the game will be, and nobody tells if they do know. Unless you count confusing riddles, odd pictures, and advance materials lists that come out in December/early January.
The game hint season hasn’t even started yet; Dave still has to say “You design the game” and then go into hibernation.
Yeah, I didn’t think it was that believable. But those would be some interesting game pieces; they’re only a little bigger than a baseball, but have all sorts of weird contours.
Yeah, I had ment to place a note that: that was the way they did it this year, and may(read: probaly) not be the way they’ll do it next or the subsequent years. I just got lazy and assumed others would make that distinction.
Au, contrare. It is to be taken seriously, kind of. It is not, however, meant to be understood.