Read the comments. WE HAVE AN OFFICIAL GAME HINT FROM FRANK.
Game Hint?
Submitted by Frank Merrick (not verified) on Mon, 06/19/2017 - 11:18am
No, this is not a game hint. If I wanted to hint about the game, I would have linked to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2UvVoTS460
So far, careful frame by frame analysis has returned no clues, but work is still ongoing.
A chair stacking game? Wonder what company wants new innovation in that space…
YHBT, HAND.
Or, to put it another way: Sometimes they just jump into the boat.
To put it yet another way: Frank’s just messing with all the FIRSTers. Traffic cones are where it’s at. (Oh, and it’s a top 100 video, not a plastic chairs video.)
Yup, must be summer.
The period of time where i refresh chief delphi every 20 minutes to an hour (depending on if I’m sitting in front of a computer or not), and then feeling extreme disappointment when there is nothing new :(.
Can we have bad lard back?
Oh, you mean that period of time where CD-Spy is actually useful? No need to refresh if the new stuff pops up as it happens.
… I forgot that’s a thing… I feel stupid now ::rtm::
Okay, so this is a countdown video. Rockets also have countdowns. Rockets = Alien spacecraft. FIRST Contact confirmed
So, we have FRC’s most boring game in recent memory except played with gamepieces that are arguably more insignificant and boring than totes? I’m sorry but I’m not following the GDC’s logic here.
Hate to break it to you, but I don’t think Frank actually posted that comment. Notice how it says “not verified” by his name?https://i.imgur.com/ALRs1zM.png
Notice how it seems all the comments on the FRC blog all say “not verified” even the prior Frank comments?
http://i.imgur.com/t6Cbs2k.png
Also, we all know Frank loves to mess with us, and fake game hints are the perfect medium to do that with. Either way, I’m not putting too much weight into this hint.
Number 18 - this US low-back leisure chair. 2018 - Low-back leisure chair limbo!
Following the literary theme theory leads us to The Chairs](The Chairs - Wikipedia).
The symbolism in the chairs is described thusly,
The last image Ionesco leaves us with is a stage full of seemingly empty chairs. We figure this has to be symbolic of something. As we mention in “What’s Up With the Title?” and in our section on the theme “Art and Culture,” these chairs seem intended to remind us that in many ways we’re watching a play within a play. When the Orator delivers his nonsensical message to the invisible guests, the audience is reminded of the nonsensical play they’ve just watched. With this in mind, it could be said that the chairs symbolize the audience itself.
Also notice that these rows of chairs are empty, at least of visible people. We wonder if this could possibly symbolize the emptiness of all our lives. This would in some ways seem to go along with the Existentialist idea that our lives are ultimately meaningless. When the sound of the invisible crowd rises hauntingly over the empty chairs at the end of the play, we are reminded of the possibility that everything we do may have no ultimate meaning.
A “play within a play” suggest a game within a game. Minibots CONFIRMED.
Invisible game elements and audience participation.
By the end of the season, we should all be in existential crisis. The GDC may have gone too far. :ahh:
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that it has to do with counting down from 100, either as a scoring element, or possibly the time of the match. Chairs is a red herring.
Obligatory reference to the robot I think about every year as the game comes out.
Nerd Herd’s 2014 robot: Chairbot
Rumor has it, that wasn’t even their chair…
Start your chassis plan.
The chairs are irrelevant, the key is nested stacking…
Tetra game 2018
:rolleyes:
Anyone can post a comment under any name including franks
Musical chairs?
Robots chasing a monkey and a weasel, all around a cobblers bench?
Their end of year survey did ask some questions about drones. 
