[Cory]

Option A, sort of.

Option B is irrelevant in my opinion because it's a relative comparison. It doesn't do a whole lot of good to know whether it won or lost without accompanying information.

For example, if your minibot deploys and goes up in 2.25 seconds but you happened to be playing 2 robots who both go up in under 2 seconds, you have a pretty darn fast minibot, but you still were second loser and the data reflects poorly on you.

If the opposite occurs and you're playing 2 robots who have no minibots, or each take 10 sec to get to the top, yours could take 8 yet be ranked #1 for the match and on paper look better than the 2.25 sec minibot that lost out to the 2 best teams at the event.

Gary makes a valid point about the robot going up after the match ends, which is why I would say A, but instead of the match timer, an actual stop watch time from when the robot begins deploying to when the minibot triggers the target. Then you don't care about when they actually went to the tower, just how long it took them once they committed to deploying.