Tonight's (7:00 on Discovery; on their website the next day) episode might be of particular interest: we make a FIRST-like robot in 4 days. It must compete in 3 events: 100 m dash, javelin toss, long jump.
Also, there's finally stuff that works!
Preview (and recap of previous episodes) here:
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/th...sneak-peek.htm
For those who want more behind-the-scenes information, most of us contestants are putting our perspective somewhere on the internet. Mine, with links to most of the others is here:
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~ewhitman/TBBT/