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A new strategy including major Defense would appear, and they would just focus on the minibot race, as tube scoring against defense would become really tough.

Elimination of G47

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It would be much easier to find tubes. (grabing them out of the opponents lane) but it would be much harder to score them (defense could play you while scoring.

What if you could deploy your minibot at any time during the match. However, after deploying your alliance would no longer be allowed to score tubes.

edit:too slow

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Immediate deployment after 2 or 3 logos, depending on tube-hanging ability of alliance in question due to diminishing returns of tube hanging compared to getting minibots up the pole before opponents. Also, lots of defense on poles and scrambling to your own poles first as soon as you see opponents abandoning tube-hanging.

What if the poles were not colored by alliance? As in, you can score 3 minibots with one alliance.

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Jostling for position during he endgame would occur more often. Teams would share extra minibots so that all three robots on an alliance could score, instead of having just two being good enough. Also alliances with very little tube hanging ability but very fast minibots could win regionals.

What if robots could take tubes already possessed by another robot?

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Defense would increase, and a whole new class of robots would arise. The game would become a big sumo match in some ways.

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The tournament structure was based on the 2010 system.

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people would have mini-bots, but wouldn't deploy them till elims

modification to motor rule, any combination of the motors is allowed, as long as the max power output does not exceed 2000 watts.

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You would see much more complicated robots that could play the game at a much faster and competitive level. At the minimum you would see intense drivetrains and very intense manipulators.

What if there was only one minibot pole per alliance?

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Then if the current minibot points stayed the same, people would hang that last tube before scoring the minibot, as the difference is only 10 points.

What if there were 5 minibot poles in total, with one of the poles in the middle of the field as a free for all?

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that would making going across the field really freaking difficult as well as a guard from each team posted on their respective ends.

How about removal of G61?

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I would hope it wouldn't affect too much, as long as teams remember to play fair. Otherwise, it would cause a lot of sore feelings and maybe a degree of self-policing among teams.

What if, where the "outpost" was in Lunacy, the third human player was given a mechanism resembling an electric leafblower to blow tubes across the field or into their team's lanes?

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Teams would abuse this rule and they would use the leafblower to blow the tubes from the robots right before they pick them up.

Minibots can be deployed at 20 seconds and teams can have more than one minibot on their robot.

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one team would score score on both poles assuming they were good enough... allowing the other two to continue to score tubes.


what if teams could have a second bot that could be on the field but not directly score points?

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Teams would line up even earlier than expected, but do so in a way where they stay touching to the pole for the entire 20 seconds as to block the field from opposing robots going home.
We would also see high scoring robots stay home to score logos and have their not-so-fast-minibot partners go minibot for the alliance (one or two minibots).

As per number of minibots, we would see higher scores earlier in the season, but little change as of now.


What if any minibot pole was free game?

Edit: Too slow, so answering other person's question.

We would see teams build the same robots that we see right now, but along side of them have defensive/feeding robots that would have amazing drivetrains that could stop an opponent dead in their tracks or keep tubes constantly flowing to the alliance.

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Q: What if any minibot pole was free game?

A: Seeing multiple robots attempt to deploy their minibots onto the same pole would be a fairly common occurrence, especially in elims. Hilarity would ensue.

New Question: What if LOGOMOTION was played on Regolith with Rover Wheels?

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Then you would have total domination by an alliance with three good mini bots.


What if the alliance selection went 1 thru 8, and then 1 thru 8 again?