It's Almost Kickoff and that Means... FTC Game Hints!

Kickoff is a mere two months away and that means until September 6 at 12 noon ET, we get to tantalize your curiosity and thirst for hints about this year's game.

In case you are a newcomer, welcome, and here's a little background information. Each year, FIRST Tech Challenge releases a new game that presents teams with fresh engineering and design challenges.  We keep the game secret until our Kickoff on the first Saturday in September.  The Kickoff happens online, with the release of the game animation and season materials, and also at a growing number of live Kickoff events in your regions.

Beware the red herring!

While the game is secret, we do like to have a little fun with it here on the blog and over on our social media accounts.  You may have seen this alluded to when people ask whether a certain post or comment is a "game hint."  From now until Kickoff, assume that each blog, tweet, facebook post contains a hint alluding to what the game is going to include for the 2014-2015 season.  As always, there might be a few red herrings to ramp up the fun.

Game hints might be in the title, pictures, text or anything else that we can find to use.  If you have guesses or ideas, leave comments on each post.  It's a lot of fun to see all the different guesses, and by the time the final week before Kickoff rolls around, someone usually has a guess that is pretty close to the actual game. Not that we let them know.

Good luck, have fun with this and remember to keep guessing!