[Jeff Waegelin]

I think it was a great idea to relax the restrictions. Many of the additional parts restrictions were designed to make things more fair for teams with less resources, but as Dean said at Kickoff, life is not fair. There will always be teams with more resources, and trying to limit them to make things more fair never did much to even things out, anyways. Now, with less restrictions, teams are more free to use what they want, but the $3500 cap puts a reasonable spending limit on deeper-pocketed teams. All in all, I think it is a good decision that will allow for more creative robot designs, generate more student involvement, and perhaps do a better job of making things easier for all involved.