[MrForbes]

Our robot was doing a lot more this year during build than last year because of the new programming system...however, making it work under actual field conditions has been a challenge, and the long time it takes to build and deploy code in LV seems to discourage our programmers from wanting to make changes to code during competition events.

We could have easily used last year's control system to make our robot do what it does.

I think we'll take a long hard look at how we approach programming next year...this year we seemed to spend a lot of time playing with neat sensor features, rather than starting with the basics of making the mechanisms do their job well with well organized code, and having a good, flexible dead reckoning autonomous.

I think there are a few teams who have been able to do some neat things this year they couldn't before, and hopefully next year we'll see more.