Terrifying Karthik

[Joe Johnson]

There were a LOT of great points made in this thread, TOO MANY to be fair to all the great folks who really put some thought into what they wanted to say.

I want to say that it is my sincere hope that a few more teams really put thought into two particular possible futures:

1) MAYBE your team can have a great season being something other than a Limbo Robot. You may be better off if, by not having to go under the Low Bar, you are able to give your robot other capabilities that you would not be able to have otherwise.

2) IF YOU ARE GOING TO LIMBO ANYWAY, make sure that that is not the ONLY thing you can do. Don't be that robot. Add value to the alliance beyond the low bar.

Now for the moment you've all be reading for.

And the winner is...

Andrew Schreiber. He made a lot of good points but for me he sealed the deal with this quote:

"Karthik is scared teams are going to overestimate how much they don't suck."

It isn't a fair contest, but life isn't fair.

Andrew, it didn't figure into the decision but you've disavowed the Mt. Dew prize (I don't understand some people) saying you'd prefer judge referrals for the Boston District. You shall have them sir.

PM me and we'll work things out.

Well done everyone.

Cheers,
Dr. Joe J.