[rakar]

Just getting in on the wild guess lottery before Saturday...

So it looks like Hockey on a three sectioned field like Breakaway so that teams can cross the zones but not easily. Maybe the barricades would be small for a robot but big for a game piece.

There might also be a gap in the middle of each barrier, like Breakaway, but, in addition, to emphasize the assist idea and keep everyone in the game at all times, there might be a lane down each side of the field (one for red, one for blue) where a puck could be fired down field (maybe the entire length.) If the shot is good - the puck travels long and straight - a robot of the correct color could get the puck and shoot it in. Otherwise it might hit the wall or a barricade and bounce out of the lane for anyone to get. Previous rules about opposing robots entering these lanes might exist - they might be exclusion zones or robots might only be restricted from contacting the "owning" alliance's robots in it.

I think the game piece might be carpet pucks instead of balls so that a good robot could shoot the length of the field and leave the puck in the lane. Of course balls would prevent a possible "build up" problem.

As with Breakaway there might also be very specific limits on how a puck could be struck, carried, controlled or thrown.

This is more fun than PowerBall (only because I know I won't win that either!)