[buckskinner1776]

Autonomous was good. It's not necessarily meant to be easy. Programmers spent weeks of late nights working it out and pushing mechanical to improve things that were an issue. I didn't see it as being make or break but a definite bonus. There were plenty of teams in finals that couldn't do it.

Taking take our thirteen hours to run division finals and Einstein was crazy. That's a long day of doing nothing when you're out of it if your going to hang out and watch. Then nine hours of travel after that.

The average of the scores outright sucked. Teams made it to the finals that really should not our would not have been there on their own. This dilutes the championship. Adding more teams has already done this and will again when they split to two locations. The top teams are there already. At that point they will be adding more teams that are not top teams. More diluting of the quality. If they would like others to have the big experience, then improve the quality of states or regionals. Cmp was a big let down after msc. It was like going through divisional in week two again. There were some more good teams to watch, but many that need some work yet.

Maybe IRI will become the real CMP without the first endorsement.