[ChrisH]

What you are seeing is what happens when a small group of very creative people try and develop something fool proof and then turn it over to 20,000 very creative fools.

The fools come up with all sorts of things the creators never anticipated. Fortunately the basic structure of the game this year is sound. I have seen nothing in the updates that fundamentally changes the way the game is played. They have changed the wording of the rules and the method of determining the score to plug some holes discovered by ingenious fools.

Remember, the rules are developed working in secret, so the developers can only have their work checked in advance by a very limited number of people, most of whom are part of the process in one way or another. This makes them the least likely people to find holes in the rules. They KNOW what is intended, so their preception of the rules tends to be that they are very clear even if they aren't. This is just human nature. It is especially difficult to do this if you are not by nature a devious or secretive person. Which pillar of gracious professionalism supports either?

The game objectives are still the same, get boxes into your scoring zone, stack approximately half of them, run for the top of the ramp.

So lets sit down, shut up, and start building robots.