[pHolmgren]

The first thing that I felt driving in Week 1, was that vision was not as much of a problem as we all thought it would be. Having built a low bar robot, we expected to never be able to see the robot once it's in the opponent's courtyard but in fact, the only time that we couldn't see the bot was when it was directly behind the drawbridge or sallyport. In case that happened, we just lifted our manipulator arm and re-orientated ourselves based on that. When we got back home after our first event, we saw camera poles all over the internet. We immediately thought that was a great idea, but overall useless, because of the lack of limited vision people expected.