[Paul Copioli]

What Andy wrote is exactly how the process worked. We did not get a chance to see the other 4 sub-team's proposals; but the stairs did come from our proposal (although the other design committee's could have had stairs, too).

Dennis and I argued extensively about stairs. I was a proponent and he was opposed. The funny thing is that his team (27) is climbing stairs this year and my team (217) is not. I just find that really ironic.

By the way, another thing from our game is the way we rank in the qualifying rounds with wins-losses and losers score as the "ranking points". Again, other sub-teams may have proposed it; but I know the current ranking method is exactly how we proposed.

-Paul