[EricH]

Originally Posted by Siri

Oh Ok. I thought it was like two. (The running thing and the kicking thing, yeah?) Maybe that sort of supports FIRST simplifying its rules for quasi-spectators. Lucky football doesn't have to rely on its own quasi-spectators like me!

Actually...

-You can get the football into your opponent's end zone (6 points).
--You can then either kick it through the uprights for one point or put it in the end zone again (1 and 2 points respectively).
-You can kick a field goal (3 points).
-You can bring your opponents down in their end zone with the football after they've crossed the plane of the goal line going towards the field (or they send the ball out the back of the end zone), also known as a safety (2 points+ possession of the ball).

That's 5 ways to score, two of which are repeats of others for fewer points under certain circumstances.


On to other things like separated fields... Not gonna happen. I've seen how it looks when FRC-sized robots are competing FLL style, admittedly for a longer match on a harder task. Spectator-friendly, not so much (that's where you need TV-type coverage to fill in gaps or what have you).