[ykarkason]

The Ri3D was fantastic and awesome, it really showed us a robot that can play the game, and pretty well. It did inspire many people and it was awesome.

Having said that, I do think that it may have done the opposite of what you guys meant it to be - to a few teams - instead of inspiring, there were teams who just built an exact copy of the Ri3D's robot, and that's a shame.

I can say that here in Israel we had something like 3 teams with a Ri3D clone, and that really made me feel that you somehow missed your target.
Also, there were student in pretty much all the teams, that kept comparing their and others' robot to the Ri3D, sometimes saying thing like "that pretty much the same", I do think it comes from the fact the the Ri3D' robot stood by the KISS, pretty much choosing the "easiest" concept of a robot for Ultimate Ascent, which many others also did.

So...
Yeah, Ri3D is awesome, and I really would love to see you guys redoing that for the 2014 game, mainly becuase it's a proof for us that we can go thoughout the build season successfully.
Thanks.