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Originally Posted by Citrus Dad
I hope not as that would add yet another technical hurdle too far for less resourced or experienced teams. The stacking plus capping task was too much this year and contributed to a spreading disparity in the ability to teams to contribute to their alliances. Using cameras to drive is similarly difficult.
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The issue with Recycle Rush wasn't that capping was hard, it was. It was that capping was so overvalued that it became the only way to win. If scored recycling containers were worth 6 points plus 1 point per level the matches last year would have looked significantly different.
Which is to say, having a difficult engineering challenge as part of scoring is a great idea, but the harder the challenge is, the less it should impact the score of a match.
The hot goals in 2014 would be an example of a good pairing of technical challenge and scoring. It's a nice bonus, but a good team didn't need it to win.