Thank you for your kind words about the mini-meet. We have been fortunate to have both the space and resources to build a complete field and have offered it for a few years now. We have found it valuable to try and get a feel for the game by playing with other machines right before shipping the machine. It also gives us a chance to meet local teams!
As you can probably tell by this delayed response, our team does not have too many members of the CD community...I only recently joined myself although I have done FIRST now since 1994
Thanks again for the kind words...hopefully, we'll have another mini-meet next year to work out those last minute bugs.