[waialua359]

With the current draft system, one flaw I see is that the 24th pick is, often enough, a team that "rides the alliance" to victory, especially during regional competitions.. Did some of these teams truly contribute as a major factor in their alliance?
The solution is perhaps in the game design where you are forced to have all 3 teammates to be major contributors.

Some interesting changes scenario for this year's game to force 3 robots to successfully win games:

1.What if this year's game had 3 track balls?
2. What if bonus points were worth more and it had to be from a teammate that isn't allowed to hurdle? i.e. designate the 3rd role robot who can only do laps and is only allowed to place on the rack. Hurdlers aren't allowed to place at the end.
3. You cannot do hybrid if you plan on hurdling.

If the goal is to even out the playing field matchups, the suggestions would help. However, I know that it wouldnt be as fun to watch and teams would have to be able to do everything, depending on what their role will be on the alliance for a particular match.

Since regionals are much less deep than CMP, the #1 seeded team would have a tough #2 pick at 24, creating more even matchups. The key is game design.