[thefro526]

I think this game has evened out the playing field a lot. It's taken away the thing that most veteran teams had, an established drive system. Also it's forcing us to rethink our who way of designing robots. We've always looked for ways of getting less traction on carpet for better turning and things like that but now we've got to figure out how to play this game with as much traction as possible.

Also there's the new control system. Now programmers and electrical teams have to familiarize themselves with a new system of getting their robots to run.

From preliminary discussions and bits and pieces of research it seems like driving on the field this year would be similar to driving the robot on a tiled floor or maybe even a smoothed concrete floor. So driving practice won't be too bad if you've got a floor that can get scratched.