Andy-
I'd give anything for a little head-to-head competition with ya this year.. because I totally agree, it's all about the drivers, and like Deej said, the on-the-fly strategy of it... my, undoubtedly, two favorite parts of FIRST
Hmm.. maybe at some off-season comp they'll allow some old-fogies to drive the robots and we can see what transpires. You can even have Deej on your alliance... who wants to be on my side??? Maybe I can win that good ol' shirt of Deej's off his back one more time ;-)
This year, though, will heavily involve driver skill, and its a conversation some members of our team just spent close to two hours arguing about. We're taking a different approach to stage crew this year than we have in the past, emphasizing the importance of driver skills and, I hope, helping better our chances of achieving our team goal (to win!).
Start finding your robots boys (I call 190's), and we can have a little friendly battle over the summer maybe