"What If" A forum game

[Grim Tuesday]

So, the game goes like this. You change one rule/concept of this years FRC manual, and the person under you explains how they think it would play out. Then they change a rule, and so on.

I'll start:

Ubertubes are now worth 9 points wherever you score them, but have no doubler effect.

[Kpchem]

Everyone would place the ubertubes on the bottom rack, as it is easier to simply drive forward than having to worry about raising an arm/elevator 10 feet into the air while driving forward.

New Rule: Elimination of G33

[Bryany]

There would be lots of sitting in opponents' lanes to get their tubes and block their feeders. (a real crippler)

New Rule: Eliminating G42

[toolgirl]

Add some fun defense maybe? Block off some towers.... claim the field.
Sure you could do so much more but really wanted to throw out:

New Rule: Elimination of G19

[Duke461]

Minibot towers would have been broken, pieces flying everywhere, sub .5 sec races, all in all destroying the field.

New rule: Elimination of G34

[J93Wagner]

Robots would come up with elaborate schemes to pick up a lot of pieces somewhat like this year's vex game (or is it this past year's now that the championship is over?), Round Up.

And give me a few minutes to come up with a rule please.

EDIT: Modification of rule G67: Now mini bot race point values are 20, 15, 10, 5 for placing 1st, 2nd, and so on.

Teams would focus on hanging those last tubes to make those last logos during the last 20 seconds of the match instead of lining up at the towers.

I don't have a rule to take out, so I pass on the honor to someone else.

[Dkt01]

More teams would forego building a minibot. Even the best ones would be less effective in winning matches.

Modification of <R11>: Max playing height: 100", Max playing horizontal dimensions: unlimited.

[penguinfrk]

Insane defensive robots with a lot of field clogging, while scoring on the top rack requires very good tube manipulation (rollers or wrist control to adjust orientation of tubes).

Modified rule: 1st place minibot - 10 pts; 2nd place minibot - 15 pts; 3rd place minibot 20 pts; 4th place minibot - 30 pts.

Hmmm.....

[Eugene Fang]

Minibots designed to score exactly 10 seconds after the round ends.

Like SuperNerd256, I'll pass the honor of a new rule to someone else.

[Nawaid Ladak]

minibot races would be a lot slower, or may not happen at all

elimination of R92

[BIGWILLI2081]

minibots would look a lot different, be faster than they are now, and have different motors and batteries.

Staying on the minibot topic, your minibot has to be shipped with your robot and cannot undergo major changes throughout the season.

[EricH]

Reported ^^.

As for the actual game portion:
Teams would spend the entire game scoring tubes or pushing robots into lanes.

What if...

The last minibot to contact the tower before the end of the match got the most points... and the first one up got the second-most?

^Reported.