IRI - 2015 Rule Modification Ideas?

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Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe

The only downside that I could see to dropping the lowest is if an alliance has 2 great matches and decides to sit there for the last match because it reduces the risk of something happening and one of the robots breaking down. Nobody wants to see an alliance sit there for an entire match.

Originally Posted by Chris is me

With a relatively low risk of damage this year, I think teams would more likely use that time to prototype a higher risk, higher reward strategy to try out later on.

Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe

I don't know, a stack of totes with a can falling on top of a robot doesn't seem very low risk to me. I doubt we would see robots sitting still at a place like IRI though, teams are going to have to push it to their limits to move on.

Then change the round robin to W-L-T. I don't think there are any overt reasons this is a bad move? I could be overlooking something, but you won't get a lot of variables in a round robin WLT. 3-0/2-1/1-2/0-3 and 2-1/2-1/1-2/1-2 are the only non-tie results you could get from that, right?