[Mark Pierce]

If what's being discussed here is real, it implies a rather significant change to the game one week into the design process. I thought that FIRST said it would try not to do that again! A week of developing designs and strategies thrown out and a major increase in complexity for spectators again?

I'd like to see this rule clarified so the subraction never yields negative numbers:

The height of the tallest stack located in the scoring zone (the “multiplier stack”), measured in whole Stack Height Units (as defined in SC9) ).or the number of boxes in the stack, whichever is smaller, is subtracted from the total number of containers to establish the “base score.” Containers in additional stacks of the same height will be scored normally;

I'd also like to see SC9 changed to state that the multiplier stack cannot include boxes solely supported by an opponents robot. (not in contact with boxes below it or the floor