The balls used in 2000 and 2001 are terrible to work with. Most of them are not even round!!
The carpet is great, most teams already have it and it is very good to work it. For sure there will be no dirt, ice or any other surface with loose little pieces that may enter your robot, or leave your robot dirty.
A very positive thing in 2001 was the possibility of a robot that works only as a helper, helping others to cross or balance on the bridge, but without scoring balls or anything else. Just helping.
The next game could have a very dificult challenge (as difficult as balancing on a bridge holding goals that have big balls on it) in each side of the field (one for red and one for blue) that only an incredible robot would do alone but two robots working together would do it nicely.
The drivers should stay in the middle of the largest side of the field, not the smallest one (the way it is), so they could be closer to the robot in a bigger part of the game.
I like the idea of a rope, bar or steel cable where the robots have to hang AND move on it. The robots would have to cross the field just interacting with this long horizontal "wire" without touching the floor. I hope you like my drawing
