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Re: Thoughts on Overdrive

Good:
-Scoring distribution (between autonomous, teleoperated, and 'end game') was pretty good this year. In 06, the winner of autonomous got a huge advantage. Last year, matches could be won with decent defense and two ramped robots, but autonomous was hardly worth anything.
-BETTER match randomization. Still needs work, but its a step in the right direction.

Bad:
-Bring back human players!
-It would be nice to allow for a little more robot-robot contact. Calls seemed to be more lenient at the Championship, but during regionals the contact calls were unnecessarily strict. Having a game where teams can't touch each other for fear of a penalty is no fun to drive in or watch. Why do you think people like football?! ; ) Encourage teams to build better, stronger robots by allowing them to face a bit of abuse on the field.

Neutral:
-Blind spots.. these were annoying at first but eventually were just a bit of an added challenge. And some teams got pretty good at using them strategically, knocking balls into the oppositions blind spot to make them harder to acquire.
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