[Conor Ryan]

They have been, and will continue to be, short of the real thing. The '04 Tetra debacle was a weird one. Rack and Roll really did challenge teams to engineer a better solution, and the pyramid was the worst in recent memory.

If you have time, resources and somebody who can get creative with the actual field drawings, I would encourage them to have full creative power to engineer something different. The practice field usually starts as the team drawings and goes through a few iterations before it makes its way to the field truck, but I have never seen drawings of those.