Two words: ROBOT PONG!!! Autonomous mode of hitting hockey pucks across the field, whoever wins autonomous gets to kick the other alliance back and forth across the field, kicked alliance scores by touching the walls at the end of the field. Switches halfway through
I have a few ideas for an interesting game. I'd like to see a return of regolith, but in a much more...evil fashion. Instead of an entire field of regolith, we have a "mixed" field, where part of it is regolith and the rest of it is regular carpet. Not sure how scoring would fit in.
Also, I'd love to see some sort of dynamic field, where the scoring method literally changes the placement of a field element. For example, what if there was a moveable ball rack (like in 04) that could be dropped into some place on the field which blocks off that part of the field, such as filling a gap between 2 walls. Any robots which happen to be in that area are trapped until the block is cleared. It can be cleared by doing some difficult task like pulling a high-up lever, or an alliance may opt to send a human player to clear it, which any team can do easily but it uses the pressure pad system from '05 where if you leave the pad (to clear the goal) your robot is disabled until you return to the pad. A nice tradeoff to keep from sacrificing a robot while trying to free another, creating a 1v3 (or hopefully 2v4
) situation.