[Marc P.]

How about a game where instead of having one color balls score into a teams specific goal, switch it around, so you have red and blue balls, scoring in a common goal. All the balls will be mixed up around the field, so it would present more of a challenge to the drivers to pick out which balls you would want to score. If the balls are red and blue, the optical sensors we currently have would be able to differentiate them.

As for autonomous at the end of the match, I think too many teams relied on dead reckoning this year. If autonomous were at the end of the match, this would not work so well. Until the majority of teams can effectively make use of the IR, or other method of tracking position, I think autonomous would have to remain at the beginning of the match.