[Goobergunch]

I think it worked out better than I thought it would at kickoff. At kickoff, many of my team members and I were wary of the increased human player involvement because we felt that it stressed more athletic involvement as opposed to robot-building talent. However, the task really wasn't that difficult (there were enough people on our fairly small team that could do it well) and added a bit more excitement to the game, even allowing teams that didn't have robots to compete (which helped us, because our alliance partners were robot-less in two of the Pittsburgh qualifiers). I don't mind the current level, but I wouldn't want FIRST to increase it.