[Venkatesh]

Personally, I would have held a rematch. So much effort went into a robot and getting it to the finals. There is not as much of a time problem in the finals. Rematches are quite possible.

As a side note, in 2003, team 30 had a small checklist attached to the robot, which reminded people to do the critical tasks to get the robot ready for a match at the last second. I don't know whether it was because of the list or the experience of the team members last year, but we never missed an item on the list.