[Steve Compton]

Greetings all....hope you've recovered from the season and those creative juices are going again for next year's work. As with many of you, I've read the report and tried to digest a lots of lesson learned.

Here's an observation from the report, specifically from Appendix A, page 24:

Of the twelve teams that won a division, ZERO of them used LabView as their programming code (there were 8 C++ and 4 Java.)

Here are two question that emerged for me, also from Appendix A, page 24:

Team 25 is listed as having no camera, no vision targeting, no video to the driver's station. How the heck were they so good at shooting accurately, and what was that giant spotlight for that they used to illuminate their target-end of the field (what role did it play?) As a mentor of a team that had some targeting problems when our camera picked up blue LED signal from a giant FIRST logo on a far wall behind our baskets, I thought the idea of using a broad field illumination to wash out extraneous inputs was brilliant, but without a camera I can't figure out what purpose it had.