[dhitchco]

As was stated during the pre-build anticipation back in December....this year's game was:

a) Great because it relied more heavily on the autonomous period; continue to push use of autonomous control in the future!
b) Great because there were many ways to score (hi goal shooter, low goal dumper, defensive blocking, bumpers; and BEST OF ALL, the added 'third-dimension' of the game with the up-ramp!
c) Great because alliance selection became all that more critical and scouting really came into play this year; lots of advances int he methods and tools that teams are using for scouting databases.
d) Great because it was a quickly-intuitive game to the guests and newbies watching the events.
e) Great because there were not many copy-cat designs at the championship (200+ different designs all doing the same thing....)..wow!
f) Great because FIRST gave us better tools to do the design (AutoDesk s/w and Easy-C s/w).
g) Great because the pits 9design, advertising, safety, etc) and the non-robot portions of the events (e.g. FIRST conference) are getting even stronger overall.

Looking forward to our 3rd year!