Wild speculation...
Maybe the first clue is already out there. Looking closely at the picture included in
Frank's blog of September 27, on the left of the three monitors and partially obstructed by Frank's arm may be a teaser for this year's field set-up. Eight (or more) 3-sided cubicles lining the side wall of the field.
Even wilder speculation...
Assume the opposite wall of the field has eight (or more) similar cubicles. Each of the eight robots (four robots per alliance in qualification rounds) starts the match in a cubicle. To earn points during the autonomous period robots must vacate their starting cubicle and move across the field to enter a cubicle on the opposite side. Hence the reference in the blog to the "
Morris dance". During tele-op, robots then dart from one side of the field to the other trying to "cap" as many cubicles as possible.
End game is a tug of war between mini-bots.