[fast frank]

i think that speed, power and durability are extremely important. these competitions are teaching us that you need these things to win, which will also improve our engineering skills in the real world. when you design a bridge, you want it to be strong.
If you compare the robots from 2001 and the robots from this year, you will notice more structual supports and more protection of electronics and pnuematics. if something breaks, you want to be able to fix it quickly. this year my team could change all 4 drive motors in under 3 minutes. we practiced this and it almost resembled a nascar pit stop.

i like the contact, it will help us design and build better things for the future.

i like the 2 vs 2 set up better than 4 vs time.