[Siri]

At PARC XII, we voted to place one super cell in the middle of the field at the beginning of each match, in addition to those at the alliance stations. To me, this was the best of both worlds. Autonomous was much more interesting (there was actually a goal besides avoiding human players), and it made starting in the center position more beneficial. It also gave robots more of an opportunity to score a super cell and added interest and peril throughout the match, while still keeping the major super cell threat in the last 20 seconds. It creates an interesting strategy element by making running empty cells more important to the alliance that's scored on. Highly recommended, though you may want to measure and mark where exactly on the field it goes to preclude later discussions.