[Billfred]

Good ideas, ones I wish could be done--the only issue comes up with frequencies, especially at the championship. There's 20. That's enough to have four per field. Up that to six, and we magically are shrunk to three.

2v2v2 would be interesting, but then we have the issues that came up during 1v1v1. The lower teams gang up on the higher, knocking them out of contention.

Game time would be nice, except it would involve either cutting matches or extending the day. Not that any of us sleep anyway. (24-hour regional, anyone?)

As for lighter robots, I see two sides. One is that you've got to keep students' backs healthy, the other is that you've still got to build a robot. 1293 pushed the limit with our arm and such, but then shrunk well once we removed it at Palmetto. Cutting weight could be done, but then I fear we'd see a fair amount of overpowered R/C cars (excuse the expression, it's the only way I could think to describe it).

Just a question on the field idea--would there be one red and one blue robot on each side, or both reds and both blues on each side? Where they sit either makes it 2v0+2v0 or 1v1+1v1. Either would be interesting, but I'd just like to know what you were looking for.