[Dan Zollman]

Really, please don't get too worked up about this. We start our season the minute the broadcast ends and we turn to the people next to us with a sudden flow of ideas.

The rest of the world begins their work on Monday morning at the start of business hours.

Even if Autodesk doesn't consider it as urgent as we do, and even if they're wrong to do this, it's not unreasonable to wait until Monday.

Don't forget that Autodesk still doesn't have to do ANYTHING for us if they don't want to--they've already given us FIRSTbase, free copies of expensive software, and training materials--even if they've had some shortcomings this year, it's not like they're giving up on FIRST.