[Salik Syed]

I think we need to build a game where autonomous control is more of a necessitiy. Instead of simply having "autonomous mode" at the first 15 seconds of the game, why not make it so that, for instance, the field is divided into thirds, and the center of the field is only autonomous control? I think these types of challenges would result in much more interesting game play than simply having 15 seconds at the start of the match.

Secondly I agree with the idea that in essence most of the actual game is just playing with fancy remote control-cars ... that is not necessarily a bad thing, but not "robotics" in the modern sense. It would be awesome if first made the game simpler and simpler -- but required more robot intelligence. Take robot soccer -- extremely simple, but insane amounts of robot intelligence required! Not saying first should do that, but maybe simplify the game so that more focus can go to intelligent robots, instead of just mechanics.