[Kit Gerhart]

In our case, the design of the robot is up to the team members. There are always differences of opinion among team members on some things, but these issues have generally been resolved without difficulty the last few years.

There was one concern that a few of us had when the 'alliance' thing started in '99, but it turned out that we had no reason to be concerned. When the '99 game was revealed, we were a little worried that the 'powers that be' within Delphi might expect Delphi teams that qualified in the competitions to pick other Delphi teams as partners, even if there were better non-Delphi teams to pick from. We have had no such pressure, and hopefully that is the case with other multiple-team sponsors.