In an attempt to try and belay any concerns about this year's scoring system, let me share some information....
1) FIRST has contracted an outside expert in scoring systems to develop a completely new Scoring System for 2004.
2) This dual-redundant system has been incorporated with the Field Control for a one-stop-shopping Field Control and Scoring Console (the words slick and sleek come to mind)
3) Extensive testing of the system is being done by the developer and FIRST with a real competition field.
4) The entire system is going to be vetted at one of the pre-ship competetions (which will not be named) as a final test before all of the fields go on the road for the regionals.
So... the new system should help make the process of field control go more smoothly than ever before. Bottom line.... once again FIRST has heard the Team's concerns and has very proactively taken steps to address them.
Kudos to FIRST!
Aidan