[Official 2007 Game Design] Radical Tournament Ideas

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by GeorgeTheEng

That being said, how about a format similar to this year's periods with the difference that in each period something on thie field (goals, end zones, etc) or even robots themselves change alliance randomly.

Ooooh... now there is an interesting idea, adding onto last year's "periods" introduction. I'll add on to it:

Make one (or more) of the periods "contact free".

For example:

Period 1: autonomous period (could be contact free, or not)
Period 2: Full contact, free-for-all scoring
Period 3: non-contact, free-for-all scoring
Period 4: Full contact, free-for-all scoring

Period 3 would be the "weenie period" where the offensive robots would dominate, and the box-on-wheels would wimper. Once period 4 started, the offensive robots would have to definitely keep their eyes open.

Andy B.