[EricH]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

If this sort of thing happens again, some sort of (voluntary) standard needs to be developed among the teams.

That funny sound you hear is me laughing.

2010: "Hey, for suspensions, we should come up with a standard attachment system so that we can make that work." Sole result: one of the MI teams (I forget who, but I think it was 2337) simply copied the tower onto their robot. Most other teams didn't bother hanging off of them.

2011: "Hey, for those coop points, we should develop a standard minibot deployment system." Result: Discuss, discuss, discuss--crickets. AKAIK, nobody standardized a deployment system.