[EricH]

Originally Posted by Tom Line

You also have to take safety into account.

This will NOT be a hockey game with normal pucks. Flying frisbees were scary enough and resulted in a few injuries. It's unlikely they are going to give us something like a hockey puck because shielding the entire arena would be really, really tough considering how hard robots could fire them. Also, remember that field cleanup has to be quick for fast game turn around. That limits the number of game pieces and type you can have. Super bouncy balls are out - even if it would be a REALLY interesting game to watch.

Who said that shooting would be allowed? All you gotta do to counter those is completely disallow shooting, or put a significant muzzle velocity limit, just enough to power-dump a cargo of gamepiece X into a goal that happens to be conducive to power-dumping. Or just design the goal such that it cannot be shot into without being in a particular zone, declare said zone to be a safe zone, and design the goal also to be rather impact-resistant.

Then add a nice, stiff penalty to said rule, say about 2x the maximum score a robot can legally carry, and you're all set.