[Jessica Boucher]

I watched it last night round 11, and then when it was over I couldnt get to sleep so I threw in some UTC 2000 footage.....

But seriously, I thought it was very good. Finally, someone can explain the game! Sure, it took 8 months since its release, but I think A & E really hit it on the head, by focusing on scoring & balancing, and keeping the time multipliers & alliances on the backburner.

I really liked how they focused on Grundy and made them into the "root for the underdog" team. Teams like that are overlooked a lot, and it was good to see them contrasted with the NASA team, and furthermore, watch the NASA team be contrasted with even bigger teams, like Metal in Motion & Gila Monstors, who both just seemed like this impending force throughout the entire show. (Which, when you're a rookie team, thats what teams like that look like to you anyway.)

I also would like to see more than just the robot building & competing, but I rather feel that all you can really fit in a quality fashion in less than an hour is, well, the robot.

But all in all, if I had 45 min to show a video on FIRST, I think that would be a good one to show; it's like having newer ESPN footage.