Hi, first of all I’d like to introduce myself. I’m captain of RC-Polaris. We attended to Bordeaux for Robocup 2023 representing Mexico as Phobos. We’d like to come back to compete in São Paulo in 2025.
I think it’s a very good idea that you want to add all these new changes to the category. It’s a breath of fresh air.
I’d like to start a general question that is not related to the new changes. What is the Reliability Bonus? I’ve never seen it taken into account for any scoring run, unlike the Exit Bonus.
With all due respect, it’s complete mistake to not limit the IA, at least for me. It’s well known what artificial intelligence can do nowadays and giving free rein to any team to use any tool is “killing” the category (at least in the part of victim identification). Now even a 6 year-old-child can “make” and “train” a “model” in less than a week with a husky or edge impulse.
As a participant, it’s always interesting and fun to talk with other teams and a very recurrent question is: “how do you detect the letters?”. Now the most common answer will be: “a web page trained me a model” would be very sad to me. It’s taking away a very important part of the essence of Rescue Maze 
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At the moment of identifying a victim, if while the led or display is blinking, can kits be deployed? It seems to me that this subject has been discussed before in the forum but it was not very clear to me.
Later, in the case of using a display as a data management system (to know the robot’s information flow during round), couldn’t the referee be told before that the display will show a different message for the victims?
For example, it’d normally show how many inches away each side of the robot is from the walls: “Front 5’‘. Right 4’‘. Back 3’'”, but at the moment of identifying a victim it’d show a message such as: “Letter Victim Detected Left. 150,500”. All this with the only purpose of not be forced to implement a LED because if we use a display, we couldn’t use it for anything else.
There will only and always be one entrance and one exit to the Dangerous Zone?
A recommendation as a competitor, is to give a bonus to each element within the danger zone. For example, bumpers inside the danger zone (whether 1cm or 2cm) should be awarded with 10 points as opposed to outside the danger zone, which would only be 5 points; the same for everything that counts for the scoring run.
Another interesting idea would be to try to make the Dangerous Zone even more dangerous (or not) but give it more rewards. It could be associated with the exit bonus, which seems to me to be one of the final goals of the category, it shows that the robot is able to fulfill almost 100% of everything the category demands. Even a new bonus 
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You can be very creative with the Dangerous Zone and all that it entails. It’d be a pity that such a good idea wastes all its potential. I’m glad that a post has been made in the forum to know our opinion 
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