[Billfred]

I'm okay with there being a time limit on it, provided that time limit is reasonable for the system. (The question phrased it as "fixed", not "short", and posed it against the alternative of having fewer matches in a period of time.) If FIRST can get a good data set here, calculating an appropriate threshold (90th percentile of experimentally-obtained robot sync times? 95th? 99th?) should be simple.

I'm also okay with minibots, just not necessarily the speed-at-all-$70-costs scenario presented this year. If future minibots ran within the motors' design envelopes competitively, all is well. (I'd also like to see them add LEGO into the mix; most FLL teams have gotten through competitions by the start of regionals, which would liberate some NXT controllers/motors/sensors.)

The 23.2% of teams that said going to more than one event would be a burden have me curious. I would be very interested in seeing if there was a correlation between teams holding that view and teams achieving success in FRC (for any reasonable definition of "success").