[Zeromonkey]

Earlier in the thread, I am not sure who said it, someone mentioned something about multiple game pieces. There is also a lot of speculation as to the GDC editing our alliance system as well.
Jacob Bendicksen, the Co-President from 1540, and I were thinking about these ideas, the hint, and the other tidbits we know.
We came up with a possible idea for the game.

The video references that "Change is Coming". One thing that has never happened (I have done my research) is multiple game piece types. By this, I mean having in one game for example an inner tube and a frisbee as the primary game pieces. We envisioned a game where there were multiple game pieces that were changed out during the match at set intervals. Then the leftover game pieces from the previous interval would just become dead game pieces.

Where do these game pieces come from? That was when we looked to the "recycling bin" ideas. We were thinking they would recycle game pieces from the past in this game.

Then we thought of the problem during qualification matches "So the game switches game pieces every XX seconds, but my alliance can only manipulate one of them". To decrease the chance of that happening, we thought they should add a fourth alliance member.

But this fourth bot would be a robot that can "line change" in and out with other teammates. Like in hockey, this would mean alliances could quickly switch out their "bench" team into play depending on the game piece in play. Thus, at one time, there would only be three robots on the field at once.

Then, we thought that there would be a problem. At district events, we can't have 32 teams in eliminations. That would be too much.

So we thought, if they reduced it to 6 team playoffs, we could keep the 4 team alliances, keep the same 24 teams in eliminations, and the bracket could still work. First and Second teams would get a bye (Like in football playoffs, the best teams get a bye) and would play the winner of 3v5 and 4v6, respectively.

We want to know what you all think.

TL;DR Multiple Game pieces. Recycled Game Pieces from Past Games. 4th "Benched" Team in Alliances. 6 Alliance Playoffs with 1st and 2nd Seed having a Bye.