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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri
Teams aren't required to print out dimensioned drawings to win mechanical awards. This should hold the same when it comes to software.
Award selection should be up to the results the system produces on the field and the ability of the team to market their design. If they choose to show how well they structured their code to judges, all the better for them.
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I agree. Signature on the dotted line.
I wrote a really awesome script exec front end to our autonomous program in 2006 (RALFF v1.0), and at the time I was really miffed about not getting an award for the work, since it didn't really do anything, in practice, super spectacular. Now, part of this was mechanical, part of it software, but none the less, it didn't deliver the goods.
Later, in the 2008 Overdrive competition, I started over and wrote RALFF v2.0. It wasn't as pretty as RALFF v1.0 on the screen... but, well,
...case in point. And it's the real life results in the hands of customers that companies pay you for, not the pixel art on your PC.
-q