[Al Skierkiewicz]

Of all the games I have seen thus far, the one formula that maximizes the excitement and the number of teams involved is the two vs. two with the current finals setup i.e. top eight pick two others. Although I would vote for a change in the way finals are played to best two out of three. I want everyone to have a chance to play and a chance to win at least one match. All four robots on the same side was exciting for the participants but not for casual spectators.
I just thought of something while writing this so I am going to throw this out. How about an additional tie breaker kind of play where a team that helped a fallen robot get to it's feet during a match would gain an advantage for their "gracious professionalism"? There were just enough tipped robots during this year's competition to make me think of a way that teams should consider giving up scoring for getting a robot back into the game. I cringed for the teams that had a robot go down. It's a bad feeling for me so it must be awful for the teams it occurred to.