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The security at the doors were pretty nice people. If you didn't make it blatantly clear that you were bringing food or drinks in, then they wouldn't do anything. After all they are just following orders.
One thing I did not enjoy were the numerous awards given out in between matches on Einstein. I think that the excitement from the matches was kind of lost. And i don't really think that it's that fair to give the einstein teams that much time in between matches to work on their robots. Its like a 20 minute time out. |
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I personally like the awards between matches although I think they should do 1 or 2 less between each match and save some for the finals, if they run out of breaks just tack them on the end. |
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I also liked the switch this year, at both regionals and the Championship, to running all of the elimination matches in succession, then cycling through them all again, rather than trying to do all QF-1 matches, then QF-2, etc. (anyway, that's how I remember it being done in previous years). Especially for those of us sitting in the stands a long time, streamlining the competition makes it more interesting, and we're less likely to fall asleep or cause trouble. (Paper airplanes, anyone?) |
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I agree with those who felt the CA got downplayed by putting it first. I also understand that we want everyone to stay until it is announced. So my solution would be to tie the CA and the final match together either just before or just after the final match.
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Originally Posted by Bcliff358 View Post
And i don't really think that it's that fair to give the einstein teams that much time in between matches to work on their robots. Its like a 20 minute time out. And they still called time outs. I agree to the point that they will never really need to use an alternate team with all that time between matches. |
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Even with the speeches, award presentations, and alternating division matches, the time between consecutive matches for any of the alliances that make it to the Einstein field is still considerably less than that experienced by every other team during the qualification matches. They have a shorter period between their matches to affect repairs, they can not return to their pits for parts or supplies, and (new this year) they are forced to work on their robots via flashlight in a darkened arena. So can someone please explain where they are getting an advantage? Given the situation, if we have to choose between granting an extra three minutes to an Einstein-bound team to repair their damaged robot and then let them participate as a full competitor, or have the International FRC Championship be decided by having a damaged robot fail to make it to the field because we could not wait for them to complete a repair, I will always choose the former option. -dave . |
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Announce the Woodie Flowers Award winner on Saturday. It is one of the top honors in FIRST, and deserves to be with the other top honors during the Saturday awards. Yes, it will add more time, but only what, 10 minutes?
Also, a better alternation between awards and matches would be nice. This year, the first 2 hours of awards only had 2 matches played, with the remaining matches all in the last hour. Some of those matches probably could have been earlier, helping to add some more excitement by not having 50 minutes of awards/ speeches. |
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