[ZInventor]

i say, MUCH BIGGER (100feet square or circle, or triangle or odd shaped MINIMUM) and 10 teams on the field at time, with 2-team alliances (5 alliances per match)

plus, make the field have UNPREDICTABLE obstacles, and, since more teams are on at a time, you can run much longer matches, 10 minutes on one battery anyone? (we need to go LiIon as soon as it's cheep enough...)

i also liked the previously mentioned idea of botcams being the only visual contact (mabe more than one, or good gimbles... coupled with a mechanum, you could have the bot drive whatever way the camera faces...)

robots deploying smaller minions would also be fun... but tricky...

NON SPHERICAL GAME PIECES + Multiple different game pieces on the field...

water game's already been done by another comp, so not too much af a point to it...

also, NON FLAT SURFACE...

methinks Dave reads this thread... n the first page, someone suggested ice, this year, we got pretty close...

-Z