[Ginger Power]

As captain of The GreenHorns I'd probably say our robot wouldn't make it to the playoffs. I really hope that's the case anyways. The whole point of Ri3D at least in my opinion is to inspire teams, and raise the competitive floor (without just giving away "the answer"). I hope our robot, which was built in 3 days by freshman and sophomore college students, is in the absolute lowest echelon of competitiveness. If it isn't then I would consider our efforts of inspiration to be a failure. I really want to see teams use our concepts and be successful with them. More importantly, however, I want to see them improve on our design and learn from the experience.

As for the homogenizization of robots due to Ri3D, I don't think it will happen this year to the extent it has the past 2 years. Given the rules, most notably the transport configuration and relating rules, I believe we will see incredible design diversity.