[RyanCahoon]

In my mind, judges giving a control system award on the basis of coding proficiency would be similar to giving one of the design awards based off of the quality of welds on a robot, or something similar. Both have a contributing factor into the effectiveness of the design - higher quality "construction" leads to greater reliability and cleaner presentation - but the real "meat and potatoes" comes in the design process: how the team analyzed the game and determined necessary features, the steps you went through in figuring out how those features would be implemented, selection of technologies to use, and then how well the implementation was carried out and how it performs. So yes, the code may factor into the complete package, but for these awards, the process that led to an effective design, and the raw performance of the design, (in my opinion) are more important than specific details of implementation. Also keep in mind that many of these awards are given for ability to articulate your unique features to the judges, and just showing them your code may not rank very high in this regard.

--Ryan

P.S. keep in mind that programming != coding