[GeeTwo]

I'm trying to figure out what soccer (international football) means in terms of robots. In abstract, soccer is essentially the same as hockey or polo except that you don't use an implement or even your hands to manipulate the game piece. Would soccer mean that robots could not use any manipulators except drive wheels and the chassis? Sorry, but I'm not feelin' it.

American football - the down structure would be utterly unusable unless we had much longer matches. We would have to cut the number of matches down by a factor of ten - sort of like the difference between MLB/NBA and the NFL. And if you get rid of the down structure and other stuff that only makes sense because of it, you're pretty close to rugby - see next paragraph.

Hockey, that's just like Aerial Assist except that you can't actually "posess" the ball. AA was more like rugby than anything else - I even remember the announcer referring to a scrum on the red end of the field.

Baseball/softball - forget it. There were only a few dozen robots that caught the high lob in Aerial Assist - who (except the Cheezy Poofs) could make contact, much less a base hit?

Hockey's the only one that makes any sense, but I"m going to stick with my "many balls" theory and abstain.