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Originally Posted by Qbot2640
And now that I've read the entire thread, I feel qualified to contribute my opinions:
(2) Given the idea of "assisting" many posters have jumped to "coopertition". Assists, in the three contexts presented, are "intra-team" where coopertition (in the 2012 application at least) was "inter-alliance". I would predict some amplification of points where multiple robots on the same alliance sequentially possess the game piece.
(2b) I agree that keeping track of passes would be difficult, so what if it is done automatically...some type of team specific sensor, or perhaps each team passes it's "team specific" game piece to another allowing two or three game pieces to be scored simultaneously (a "pass" being represented by an "accumulation".
Just my 2 cents (except the factual Lemieux part).
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I think you may have the co-opertition idea down for this year, it may be between teams on an alliance and may involve an assist to score.
If the assist using a game piece is to be obvious, then a larger than usual game piece may be involved for visual confirmation. Or there will be electronic tracking as you suggest.
Electronic tracking with real time scoring could become a nightmare. Reference the faulty load cells in the goals and the manual counting that was resorted to last year.
They could also restrict robots to "zones" and/or require assists across a "blue line".
Or maybe there will be robots lifting each other like in Rebound Rumble, or lifting (assisting) them up to a high platform to score.
Whatever the game, hopefully it will encourage diverse solutions to the "problem".
BTW, Sidney Crosby will challenge for the greatest and this year's Winter Classic is awesome. $0.02