I love how the filter caused me to spend more time thinking about what, exactly it was filtering, thus resulting in increased awareness of the product in question.
We have specifically made a decision to not recruit a basketball player to shoot balls this year. First of all, having played a fair bit of b-ball and having thrown the orbit balls, I don't think the skills are as closely related as they were in 2004, and secondly, we only travel with students who have made a committment to the robotics team, and this year we don't have any crossover between basketball and robotics. I have nothing against teams who choose to recruit a basketball player to their team, but believe our best team effort will come from featuring committed robotics team members in key roles. After all, as we've been told, you get what you celebrate.
Besides... all the human player has to do is throw the ball to our robot. (At least, that is the theory...) How hard can that be?
Jason