How do you decide your strategy?

[JesseK]

We ask ourselves "What Would Karthik Do?", "What Would Beatty Do?" and "What Would Baker Do?" to every brainstorm item. This year we may add "What would 469 do and how would 254 implement it?"

Well, that's mostly true. The team does a whole host of things, including CAD drawings on the fly to answer questions that come up, playing the game with humans representing robots, and drawings on a field-backed whiteboard.