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Originally Posted by Ziv
Part of the excitement came from the fact that the minibot race was in fact a race. Another interesting element of the gameplay is that the match ends when all four towers trigger.
Maybe 1st and 2nd place get 20 points while 3rd and 4th get 15? It's a very possibly worth-it tradeoff if you decide you really must delay the end of the match so your alliance partner can hang that last tube. It also rewards teams that have spent time making superfast minibots without making it necessary for every other team to develop (very heavily inspired) new ramps and minibots.
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I'm of two minds--at the regionals, where not everyone's minibot was stupid-fast, it was more exciting than at Championship where you would be surprised that the clock made it any lower than 7. The 20/15 split might be a worthy middle-ground.
I like the idea of ubertubes after autonomous--but how about giving that extra ubertube to a feeder station only if all three ubertubes are scored in autonomous. (If you really want tension for that third robot, put it in the feeder station at 15 seconds. You'd almost certainly have to allow ubertube-over-tube to count, though.)