[Justin Montois]

It's an interesting thing to think about. This is the biggest risk to designing a game that is so dependent on robots in terms of actual match play.

It's for this reason that I never thought that we would see a game like this. What puzzles me is that I'm sure it had to come up during the design of the game, but they went on with the game anyway, which tells me that when this subject did come up, they had a solution or otherwise maybe they would have made a different game.

I wouldn't think it would be that hard to answer, seems there are only three options(2 of them being somewhat unfair an the last would being ?randomly unfair?)

Option 1- The Goal is place on the field with some sort of rolling support device. (Advantage the alliance with three robots.)

Option 2- The Goal is taken off the field. (Advantage Alliance with 2 Robots)

Option 3- A surrogate list is available for teams to sign up to be called in if a Robot is a no-show.(Advantage Alliance with 2 robots if say your surrogate partner is an elite team)

The only reason why they might go with Option 2 is that while the team with the no-show robot only has two goals, it also only has 2 robots to score with.

I remain interested in the ruling......