[theprgramerdude]

My team used the switches also; I have to say that they work great, at least for the time being. I just wish that their application required them to be a bit more robust; we've already broken a few by crushing them.

Mike, a working minibot is a working minibot. No one reasonably doubts that that is a good thing to achieve. However, I think the point that people are trying to make, which may be confusing/rude some due to it's harsh language, is that it can be improved to be better at the goal it's trying to achieve. FIRST isn't about teaching kids to do it once, and then be done.