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autonomy would be good
I would like to see some sort of autonomy in the game. Something that would add some programming and EE to the heavy concentration in ME that FIRST is now.
I would like to see the robot have to pick up something not round and build something. Perhaps you should have some sort of boxes that can be grabbed and stacked. Robots would have to collect some number of these and build something on the field. I know that teams have been big the last couple of years and real autonomy would be hard to do if robots had to cooperate to build something.
Teams would get points for the number of block they moved to their scoring zone. They would get additional points for building different structures.
You could also have the robot build a structure over an obstruction. For example have one robot from each team start on each side. Each team attempts to build a bridge over a pit. After the bridge is built the robots move items from one side to the other with each team being able to use only their own bridge.
In any case, the rules for qualifing and final rounds should be the same. You should not have a robot that is only so-so in the qualifing rounds be an unstoppable monster (no offence Beast :0)) in the final rounds.
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