[Enigma's puzzle]

As Michigan veteran and mentor I believe that the system gave the teams a chance to raise the level of competition. You noticed by the end of the third week everyone was already experienced and smart enough to control there robot to at least get in the way of other robots, and keep there trailers empty if they chose to avoid scoring threats. It turned more into the scorers scoring on the dregs or the other scorers when they would stop to score.

I would fully expect to see the Einstein level increase because of the new state championship. There will be more quality robots going because they are allowing high ranking teams, which have had success this year, to go to Atlanta. By nature of the system they are picking up more teams and better teams to send to the championship and I fully expect to see a rise in the number of Michiganders on Einstein. You are getting a lot less defensive or less capable bots going to the championship by assisting the top scorers, and instead you are taking the top scorers.

In the next 3 or 4 years you WILL see a higher percentage of Michigan robots on Einstein.