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I'm fairly confident in the ability to factually say that the FRP actually made the playing field kind of bumpy, in a small, consistent fashion across the "crater." The levelness of the field in relation to what? Tangent to the Earth's surface?

On a more serious note, I think that the game challenge every year is to drive teams to innovate and strive to better play the game. I know that we never stop thinking of ideas to make our bots better and more efficient. Leveling the playing field should be the last thing that the game should try and do. Making every team equal (leveling the playing field) sounds kind of like socialism, and with the human thought process and flaws, it just doesn't work.