[Rob]

During the 2004 season, I was having an "After Hours" conversation with someone who was somewhat involved with the game design. This guy mentioned that he had wanted an auto mode where teams selected their alliance partners or tasks based on their action (or inaction) in auto mode. He also liked the idea of a divided field where you pick what side you play on during auto mode.

Imagine not knowing who your partners were until auto! Crazy... I would not be surprised if you had to use visual autonomous control to find something (maybe green?) that would dictate either who your partners were or what your task was.

Maybe all the football references are correct, and you choose if you play offense or defense in auto mode. I envision a game like the one from American Gladiators where contestants tried to put soccer balls in little goals that were defended by the hosts. You pick if you play O or D during the auto mode. Who knows how you do rankings based on the results of matches, I am sure there are many ways.

On a somewhat unrelated note, I noticed that Paul Copioli continued with the Joe Montana/Notre Dame reference, and mentioned that ND's colors are green and gold (also happen to be the team colors of one of my favorite FIRST teams) Coincidence that Paul would hide a reference to JVN's old team? Hmm. Conspiracy if you ask me.

See you folks at Kickoff.

Rob