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Personally I feel that this problems should have been dealt with almost four weeks ago. When your team brainstorms ideas, it's great for everyone to defend their ideas while they develop them, however, when you start to make decisions on what will actually happen on your robot, you need to get everyone to realize that it no longer is their own idea, but the teams idea and it may be turned down. For my team, we brainstorm in subgroups, then we get together and present the individual ideas to the entire team, then we make everyone do a physical motion to signify that they no longer own that idea, but more so it's a team idea from that point forward. If, however, there is an idea that we want to keep just in case, we put it on the Put-A-Side list. The Put-A-Side list is a list that stays on the main white board where all dormant ideas stay. While on the list, it doesn't mean we will do the idea, or that we won't do it, it just means that we are focusing on other ideas before looking into the ideas on the list. Let us know how this situation turns out, sorry you had to deal with this on your first year.