[Chris is me]

Oh, by "winner" I meant finalist. </lookinglikeanidiot>

Generally there were only a handful of teams I noticed that I could see as "rookie" (and it would be foolish to name them), and I noticed some robots from veteran years having trouble with the new playing surface. I think interesting little mixups like these make people think outside the box a lot more; then again since this is my first year participating in FRC perhaps I'm not the one to judge.