Next Year's Game?

[EricVanWyk]

How about live ball sorting? It sounds rather lame at first (ha!) but hear me out:

Take the game piece (spheres, cubes, nerf footballs or whatever it may be) and color e.g. half white and half black. The one alliance wants white pieces in goal A, black in goal B; the other alliance wants the opposite. Put the goals on opposite ends.

This does a few things:
Adds a weird twist, could be fun.
Makes the difficulty of vision tasks more intrinsic and less dependent on lighting.
Lots of interesting sort options: presort+hoppers, "turret sort" (change target as pieces line up in the turret), "cerberus sort" (two heads that each remain locked on a target), "belch sort" (change turret speed based on whether or not you want the ball to go in), "driver sort" (only pick up the "correct" color), etc.


A third and fourth unsorted goal may be added with decreased points, to give teams a low-bar achievable target.


EDIT:
PS: Do we really have to debunk water games every time they are brought up? Lets just ignore it or answer it in PM.