FIRST, Please ...
 

With the 2009 regionals on the horizon, what would you like FIRST do at the regionals and Championships? I'll start things off with

FIRST, please don't make us beg for broken rocks/cells to be replaced.

FIRST, please, when scoring, clearly indicate when a supercell is in a trailer.

FIRST, please let teams know, well in advance, if the pits at a regional will be smaller than 10' x 10'.

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I second the pit dimension, we would really like 10ftx10ft...

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FIRST, please allow batteries with leads to not be counted in the Withholding Allowance.

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please give NASA TV a good time schedule for the Championship event. ( I hate getting calls from my mother about how "they messed it up again")

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QFT.

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FIRST, please take us to the moon..

and back..

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FIRST, please come through for us...

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Please insure that there is a procedure in place in order to prevent another fiasco like SVR last year. And please-kill G14 as quickly as possible!

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FIRST, please inspire the kids anyway...

Lucy, Please finish the crimped cables.... it's been weeks :rolleyes:

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FIRST, please provide yummy food for the volunteers.

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Not that they've had a hard time of it in the past. (Show of hands, who's gone back--or at least wanted to go back--for another round of those brownies with the marshmallows on them that they serve at the Georgia Dome?)

FIRST, please keep the hard stuff hard and the easy stuff easy.

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sorry for breaking the flow of this thread... :(

but what was the fiasco at SVR last year?

oh and FIRST, please make sure broken balls don't sway the score of a match one way or another

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FIRST, please coordinate and execute a consistent competitive experience (inspection and gameplay) across all regionals and the Championship.

FIRST, please have enough control system technical support in place at all events such that veteran teams are not thrown to the wolves attempting to provide all tech support in its absence.

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...have Dean, Woodie or Dave appear at every regional. The students treat them like rock stars. It is awesome to see.

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Please clearly identify the team# of each human player by location on the field.

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FIRST,

Please Keep the rulings consistent. If it was legal in one regional, then it should be legal at them all.

Please Remember, there are no re-dos for mis-scored matches, we should not have to play again when you can just as easily re-score the match.

Please Inform the audience why when in the Elims an entire alliance gets yellow carded for the actions of one.

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FIRST please...

in face of economic difficulties, unprecedented growth that seems to happen faster than anyone would ever be able to keep up with and supply for, mounting criticism for any and everything you do and the never ending search to find new ideas to challenge the fertile minds that crave more from you every year I ask one thing...

keep fighting the good fight and never give up.
We need you more than ever.

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FIRST, Please:

Do not rely only on live scoring for final match scores. Verify and adjust the score from the trailers at the end of the match. With a ref at each trailer, it takes seconds to verify.

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First please go back to listening to teams, We are the most important people in first.

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There was a finals rematch for no apparent reason. Though noone thought bad of it but it made the winning team have to play again and win another game or face another rematch.

And FIRST,

Have the scoring system perfected before the regionals, we don't want to hear about the results of a game while watching another.

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oh... thanks! :)

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NI is planning on having reps available at regionals, I am waiting to hear the exact regionals and if Michigan district events will be covered. Barring that, the best bet is to ask on the NI community (http://decibel.ni.com/content/community/first). Questions are answered within 48 hours by actual engineers or developers.

FIRST please allow us our freedom to design robots how we choose.

FIRST please do not try to "level the playing field" and allow us to play at our potential. (Personal opinion, not saying they are or aren't now)

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FIRST, please insure that all of the driver stations will be up and running so we don't have to sit for hours to make the new system work...

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No, there WAS a reason. The refs made a goof, and the Manual said the opposite of what they said. So instead simply correcting the scores, they did a replay (second goof). The "wrong" alliance won. FIRST wound up giving the finalists slots at the Championship because of that error.

Second the call for none of that this year...

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UMM.. what.... did i miss something.. do batteries count in the withholding allowance??

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If they have their leads attached. If they don't, they don't. See the other threads on this topic for full details/reactions.

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Well thats fun...

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Please make a copy of the Field Management System available to teams!!

Oh wait! They did!!!!! Thanks FIRST! That's awesome! I set it up and used it for an event pre-ship for LUNACY and it was awesome, we just used our robot N router and ethernet and it was beautiful.
Yeah!!

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FIRST, please keep inspiring kids