[Joe Johnson]

Say whatever you want, but Car Nack has the track record that makes you stand up an take notice.

Having said that, you will not be surprised to discover that I am sure Car Nack's predictions have merit.

Please note that having 2 robots suspended and one robot elevated does not provide +8 points as many have argued!!!

To my way of thinking it provides a mere +2 -- the two robots that go from 2pt elevated to 3 point suspended.

This is a lot of pain for not a lot of benefit. If these +2 points were free or nearly free (in terms of time and risk), that would be one thing but they aren't.

It is quite hard to imagine a situation where 3 robots could configure themselves into an 8 point configuration as quickly and reliably as they could configure themselves in 6 point configuration. Every time I come up with a solution that WOULD provide this advantage, the solution I come up with requires so many resources from the various robots that if they put those same resources into building a robot that does other tasks better, they'd be ahead of the game (by a lot).

Callin' 'em as I sees 'em.

Joe J.