[Billfred]

Man oh man, this is fun stuff. (To all the webcastites, I'm sure you're loving the view of my back.)

Teams seem to have adapted to the new format well. It seems that the trick is to just keep the balls in motion; a lot of teams are leaving a lot of balls in their corral.

I'm not sure if it's coming through on the webcast, but there is indeed a net behind each goal. They do a good job of diverting the balls down and into the ball corral, which has been repurposed nicely. (Good thing FIRST didn't send the ball counting hardware, eh?)

The real-time scoring is something to see; the entire operation is run off of a hacked USB keyboard (a Mac one, at that) connected to a laptop running some software Mike Walker wrote. The buttons the field staff use are rigged up to press a key. I like it.