[AdamHeard]

My negativity comes from the increasing complication of our control system.

When I programmed in high school, we only "needed" two programs. MpLab, and ifiLoader. Neither were hard to setup or took long to install. Radios were configured logically by a manual entering of the team number.

Yesterday, I attempted to help my new programmer make some changes to our practice bot so we can use both this weekend. There's just so much you have to do, to so many different things, with so many different pieces of software.

The techie in me loves getting more sophisticated equipment, but the engineering student in me disagrees. If a simple solution works just as well, adding more complexity (which comes with decreased reliability) is just not a good idea.

Compound this with the fact that it is related to and/or has caused a restructuring of entry fee and what we are given in the KOP, and I am rather dissatisfied.

Call me negative if you like, but I feel I have valid points. All of you have valid points about the Pros of this system, I'm just stating the cons. We'll find out down the road who is more right (but as I'm "disagreeing" with Joe... I think my odds of being right are slim).