The 2010 Curve Ball

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Wayne TenBrink

If we could guess what it was, then it wouldn't be a curve ball!

The KOP includes "1 Long box, 36.5" x 8.75" x 5.75", 29 lbs each" - sounds like the AM kit frame. Therefore, we probably have wheels, too...

I wouldn't be surprised to see some limitations on drive trains. This is the area that gives seasoned veterans a big advantage over younger teams (preseason prototypes, evolution of previous designs, etc.). A big curveball here could force everybody to pull a clean sheet of paper or default to the kit chassis, which might level the playing field a bit.

And speaking of level playing fields - we are overdue for an uneven field surface. Perhaps a game that rewarded tall robots with a high goal placement and then penalized their high CG with a steep ramp, or some such conundrum. Something where you needed to commit to one particular design objective and hope that one of your alliance partners picked the other - kind of like the ramp-bots in 2007.

I don't think leveling the playing field by limitation is likely to happen.