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Worst game I could come up with. Pretty long description, but in most of the worse games the devil is in the details.

Field is divided into a grid of 12 zones, 3 across, 4 down. Teams get points for each square they move into from their starting square as well as a multiplier bonus of how many zones away from their starting position they are at the end of the match. Teams may only block robots from entering a zone, they may not push opponents back into other zones, significant penalties are assessed for such an action.

The game objects are 1ft x 1ft memory foam cubes, there are 7 of them on the field, each robot starts with 1 and there is an extra 1 in the middle of the field. Points are awarded when a cube touches the ground inside a zone, per zone, cubes may not be dragged across the ground into a new zone, but must be lifted over the tape lines, if a cube touches the tape it negates the score of the cube. This score is divided by the number of zones away from their starting zone each cube is at the end of the match.

Robots may start in any zone they wish, one per zone. Priority is determined by a staggered load in order (red 1, blue 1, red 2, blue 2... etc).

Designated score keepers are expressly forbidden. There are two referees and the head referee. There is an automated laser grid system that matches the grid lines, but it does not record information, only feeds information about which grids it thinks are occupied based on entrance/exit information back to the referee display in real time.

The referee interface is divided into 3 screens, one screen for actions involving the robot (with alternating buttons for both scoring and penalties on a per robot basis), one screen for the actions of the cubes, tracked per cube, and one screen that is locked until the end of the match at which point the referees enter the starting and ending positions of all 6 robots and 7 cubes. Each referee must keep score and penalties for all 6 robots. When there is a discrepancy between the two referees, the average of the point values is taken per team.