[Billfred]

The more I watched the game, the more I liked it. Team Update 16's tweaks made a big difference, particularly with ball penetration.

I did enjoy having to build something different (and likely tougher)--a flat-game drivetrain had to make some real sacrifices to keep its status.

Scoring was a fair bit easier to follow, and I thought autonomous was mostly well-rewarded.

I think playing Thursday in Atlanta is a good thing, as is getting ten matches in.

No-update updates worked well, even if they were the butt of a few jokes.

I also appreciate Bill Miller reaching out a bit more, both on his blog and on Twitter--even if he can't necessarily respond to every question or fix every problem, keeping the human element in the FRC is important. Keep it up!

Allowing five CIMs was just right this year. I wouldn't mind getting three or four in the kit, but at least they're readily available.

Loosening the compressor rules was a nice olive branch, albeit a bit of an exercise in futility since nobody seemed to make a commercially-available compressor that matched the specs (let alone provided teams some design choices, such as duty cycle versus weight). Still, I liked the freedom in pneumatics rules.

Hopefully things keep rolling forward for 2011!