[EricH]

Originally Posted by Knufire

The magnitude is relative, yes. But regardless of the game, zero points is zero points. I'd argue a higher number of robots had zero offensive contribution in 2010 compared to other recent games.

Given the number of zero-zero ties, that might be a fair assessment. OTOH, there weren't all that many of those without a penalty assessed somewhere.

The #1 biggest problem with 2010 was the possession rule. For those that weren't there, you had to work with one ball at a time--inadvertently grabbing another got you a penalty. (After Week 1, the rule was modified somewhat to allow inadvertent violations to try to clear out any extras.) And you could only have about 6" of the ball under your control, 3" or less actually inside your frame (or other ball-control device, if that was on top of your frame) and the rest under your bumpers. And the real kicker was that the kicker had to be inside the frame perimeter. 3" on a size 5 soccer ball ain't a lot of room to work with!

If that one dimension was somewhat larger, I think the scores would have been a lot higher. The game was good as a game, just that particular number, and the ranking system were really annoying.