[Ryan Foley]

Hmm, applications.
They do sound like a really good way of filtering out those members who are there when its time to drive the bot, but not when its time to work on it (aka the slackers). I know Timberlane has never used one. Our team has never been more that 20 and for the 2000 and 2001 years we barely had any slackers, so we took everyone who wanted to join so we could get a decent size team.