[EricH]

Originally Posted by waterwaterwater

Ok, I know we were talking about the portcullis, but I have an idea to replace the drawbridge visibility issues. For both the sallyport and drawbridge, replace the wooden part with clear lexan, but insert a low bar sized cutout (with a few inches on each side) that robots can drive through. In order to make it more difficult than the traditional lowbar, doing the portcullis/sallyport the "proper way" (ie. without just driving through the cutout) earns one more defense crossing than it would normally (ie. proper earns both for the breach or 2 of the 3 if one more crossing is added to the rules).

Somebody pulls that, we'll have too big of an advantage. Fully damaged drawbridge/sally port in auto or something like that. Rewards very few of the teams for putting in a lot of hard work, penalizes the rest of 'em.