MAYHEM in Merrimack 2012

[Ken Streeter]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

Are there any game/rule changes planned for MAYHEM in Merrimack?

I've personally always enjoyed the "2v2" format of MAYHEM in Merrimack. Hopefully that is a rule change that will be implemented again for this year -- running a 3v3 schedule with fewer than 24 teams would just be too frantic with out enough down time between matches.

With the "2v2" format, I'd suggest having each robot start with 3 balls at the beginning of the match, rather than 2, so as to keep the same total of 18 balls in play for the entire field. I'm not sure whether there should be just two inbounders per alliance (assuming 2v2) or if one of the teams should supply an extra human player so that there would be three inbounders per alliance... My initial reaction would be to just have two inbounders, which would help keep more balls in play, since each alliance would only be able to "hold" a total of four balls, rather than the current six.