[Mark Pettit]

At kickoff time, I was bummed because I though veteran teams who worked with big 30" balls or who hung from bars in previous years were really being given an advantage.
In retrospect, this was the best game I've seen out of FIRST. The difficulty of all of the tasks involved in upping one's score really seemed to level the playing field this year. For the most part, the frenzy part of the game was where MOST teams were frantically still building their robots in the pits between matches because they weren't given enough time during the build to fully complete them. WHAT A GREAT, GREAT GAME!
The part about the robot having to feed the human player balls was ingenious and I hope that in the future Lavery and his homies incorporate that same kind of robot-human interaction into all of the games.