[Mark Sheridan]

1) The game was awesome this year. I loved the variety of robot designs and strategies. I thought the discs was a really good game piece. It had really good flight characteristics and was very durable. I like that the GDC choose to have a large amount of dics and avoided having scored discs returned to the field. It really helped keep the flow of the game fast. I also like the ranking system was nice and simple. My team loves this game so much, we don't want to stop playing it. We are going to have to go to as many off season events as we can.
2) kit voucher: It was great to get exactly what we needed. It really reduced our budget this year
3) Motor variety: it seems there is a motor in the kit for any application you can think of.
4)I was really impressed by the lack of zero score matches. There was a big reduction in non-competative robots. I think a big thanks goes to the 3 day robot. It gave teams a template that they could start off of. It also gave many teams a standard of competitiveness. I think the whole field of robots are more competitive this year. It seemed the bell curve was smoothed out a bit.
5)FIRST's transparency this year made their decisions a lot clearer.