[Joe Johnson]

I think this is an interesting question. I go back and forth on the answer. One thing that I have come to believe is that the low bar saved this game.

I'm serious. I shudder to think of the bedlam that would have ensued had it not been the case that 90% of the teams decided to try to be a low bar robot (forget if they actually CAN limbo, they TRIED, and that saved a lot of them).

I have seen more upside down and tipped over robots this year than in any year I can remember*. Had 90% of teams built 4ft tall robots the highlight reel would have been filled with tipped robots.

Again, the GDC saved this game by making the low bar be the one permanent defense.

Dr. Joe J.

*well, excepting 1997 when when Naval Undersea Warfare went after the other two robots on the field at the opening trumpet blast, tipped them with a spatula type thingy and scored at their leisure once they were the only upright robot left but let us never speak of such things. The horror, the horror...