Game Manual - Team UPDATE 2014-04-15

[Nemo]

Originally Posted by Rangel(kf7fdb)

Part of it was because of mini-bots in 2011. They were basically the decider of many games including Einstein because tube scoring became nearly useless after the second row. I don't see anything wrong with leaving the rule in just in case a scenario like that happened again. Had this rule been in the 2011 manual then minibot scoring would have likely changed or tubes scoring could have changed as well.

Fair enough. I should have remembered that one, along with the IRI scoring change to make the bottom row worth the same as the middle row. That would have been a good change at the Championship.

Maybe if they include that rule again, it will also cause them to discuss the potential problems with scoring values and then fix them before they release the game. We haven't had any issues with diminishing returns on scoring in the three games since 2011.