First makes a game that requires robots to pick up pool noodles to represent “litter”. But litter is very rarely in the shape of pool noodles.
So why pool noodles?
Well, say some pool company sponsors First. This company needs some way to optimize the cleaning of pool noodles from its pools. Therefore, it asks First to make pool noodles as a game element in 2015. But now, First has a pool company sponsoring it. What’s in pools I ask? Water. Water is in pools.
Hmmm, I would like to see how that would work. Would teams have water proof cameras used to drive the robot? Would the objection be to get as many pool noodles in a set time?
Wait a second! Look at it! "Change is Coming.
If you rearrange the letters, remove a few, add a few more and stick the square root of 4,064,256 on the end you get:
“Water Game Confirmed 2016!”
Genius!
I would really prefer to see a flying game (drones) before FIRST attempted to do a water based one. I also think that a flying game is more likely, as they are in the news right now due to their popularity and use by Domino’s and Amazon. Matter of fact, I figure that it will be a game within the decade.
Hmm… well a game with drones seems interesting enough, but how would they be contained on the playing field, rather than flying off into the crowd? I personally believe that a water game would be more likely.
…Of course, this is taking into consideration the possibility of a game involving boats/hovercrafts over a very shallow body of water ::safety::
“To simulate controlling a robot on Mars, communications between the driver’s station and the robot will be delayed by 3 to 22 minutes, as determined by the FMS randomly before each individual match…”