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wouldn't it really be from what kind of suction cup you used? If the suction cups had a very large edge to them, spare material they might hold. Think like a dinner plate, the indented area being the suction cup. There is a wide lip around the whole thing, now if that was wide enough, say maybe 3 inches of just extra material where it met the floor it could probably compensate for short 2 inch marks because the extra material would completely cover all the short ones that got under it at all and those that started midway wouldn't have access to the vacuum inside. Our team did not have an opportunity to make an entire ramp top to see how long the usual marks are or how deep they are but I'm guessing they might be deep but short meaning that might be a solution. Dust might be a problem but I don't think many robots will be dumping chain grease everywhere for the simple reason that they would work hard to fix that for the safety of their own electronics panel if nothing else. Any team that didn't wouldn't be playing many matches in which they got on the ramp anyway.
I completely admit this is all in the wonderful world of logic which often has nothing to do with the real world, please tell me how far from reality any of it has gone in your experience.
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