[Cody Carey]

Who has the right to say that another team tried to do too much? It really isn't any of our business. What they decided to build their robot to do is their choice... and unless somebody else payed their registration fee, their choice alone.

We can't do anything to improve the overall quality of robots, at least not like this. That is up to each and every team that chooses to compete. The way to improve the quality would be to provide guides, and to help the teams who came up with not-so-quality robots.

Instead of saying "Teams are building pieces of junk, they need to do better.", we should be encouraging people. If we want to effect the target group of teams, we shouldn't talk about them in a thread which details how crappy their robots are.We should be making whitepapers on effective robot design; telling them what some effective strategies for our teams have been. Each team is different, and what works for us may not work for the next guy.

All I'm saying is that we are all going about this wrong. We shouldn't be talking as if we are better than the teams in question. While some of us may be able to build a higher quality of robot, the teams that need help will not listen if it is put across this way.