[Matt H.]

I believe that excessive boosting of IR capabilities is a blatant violation of GP as a large enough sensors is equivalent to a jammer when pointed anywhere near other teams robots. TV remotes are designed to be highly directional devices--hundreds of LEDs wired together are not.

In addition to GP there are several other reasons not to boost your remote--you're alliance mates may have a great deal of trouble operating their robots if you are flooding the field with IR as they start closest to you. Also an extremely strong IR signal can bounce around the field reflecting off of the various field elements creating enough IR background noise to cause your robot (and other robots) to do preform unplanned actions.

Perhaps rather than devoting so much time and energy to improving your remote you should work on directional receivers or solutions which boost power, but maintain only a thin beam of communication.