[Dave Flowerday]

I'm curious to see what others think of this. At all events I've attended this year, I've run into people who are not FIRST junkies who have no idea what this term means. (Not-so-technical) family and friends visited me at West Michigan and said things to me about it, and I overheard comments at the other events. The announcers would say "Starting the tele-operated mode" or something like that and they'd say "Huh? What is that?".

I don't know why this term has gained so much popularity in the last year and a half, but wouldn't it be simpler (and much better understood) to just say "remote-control period"?

I know, it's a really minor thing, but shouldn't we be doing everything we can to make the game more audience-friendly, especially for people who don't know the game as well as we do?