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Originally Posted by KevinGoneNuts
I still think that we will have three alliances, but only 2v2v2. We can keep the field set up, but it does create something of a challenge. Your alliance partner is on the other side of the field. Sounds like a FIRST challenge to me!
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There are a number of reasons why this can never happen, primarily because, while a 2v2v2 is very interesting to play strategically (in real time strategy games), 90% of the time it ends up being 4v2 with the worse two alliances ganging up on the strongest. This always creates a nasty dynamic with wheeling and dealing in the pre-match phase and I hope the GDC foresaw this if they were thinking of modifying 3v3.
I have no evidence for this but what if they changed the robot sizes to be smaller and made alliances have 4 teams on them, and increased match time to 3 minutes. This would keep approximately the same or more matches per team while shaking up strategy significantly.