[BigBen]

Overall I would say it is a positive engineering source of information, but I think they shouldn't release all of their info within the first week of build when everyone should be brainstorming. That takes SO much away from the actual design aspect giving the easy out of "hey this works so lets do this" instead of trying to come up with something. A little research on past year robots with similar games would provide some similar amount of info, but at least they would need to work at it.

One of the other mentors on our team actually thinks they Ri3D robots should be used by FIRST to actually play test the game to work out the kinks in the system, would be much smoother early week competitionss if this was so.

In hind sight, I think having this resource was nice, but I think it shouldn't be made available until the end of week 2 of the build season. My 2 cents anyway.