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I like the idea of a scoring objective that can only be achieved by having both robots in an alliance contribute -- this would improve the game in two ways that come to mind immediately:
1) it would remove one element of pure luck in qualifying alliance draws, making it unlikely that a less capable team could get a high QP rank simply by drawing a succession of strong partners, and
2) it could provide an alternative element of challenge and variety, so that the scorched-earth strategy that many people have found so distasteful at regionals this weekend could be eliminated.
Maybe I'll try my hand at a new game design, too.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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