[Tom Line]

There is a red flag, and a blue flag. Two alliances. We already know substantial changes to the field size and shape are highly unlikely because of gym requirements at a lot of districts.

Pretty clear that the robot has the flag on it and they're all staring at a tower with no flag.

I think it's a game piece transference game, where the flag raises as additional weight in the form of game pieces are added to a platform of some type. I suspect there will be a rule against de-scoring or the field will simply prohibit it. Points awards to how high your flag is at the end of the match, with some bonus if you make it before time is up.

Those game pieces are universal, so both teams can take as many as they can get, but robots can only carry 1 game piece at a time.

Same style of scoring as last year though, where you're not competing with the other team - aggregate scores determine ranking.