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Unread 17-03-2011, 11:28
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Re: A plea for a quieter pit area

The problem is that you have several issues:

1. Too many people yelling robot way too loud! I never had our kids yell robot but, "Excuse us, robot coming through" worked just fine along with kindly asking.

2. Overcrowded pits. I don't understand why teams have 15 people in their pit at one time! To make it better these are the teams who have a ton of storage/shelving in their pits so they all spill in the aisle. I came back from a match to find several members of one such team in our pit working on their programming because our table was clear!

Unfortunately at events like Championships where there is plenty of room in the pit aisles but at regionals there isn't a lot and I don't understand how it is servicing our sponsors and parents when the pit is so crowded. I wish that FIRST and teams would become more proactive in enforcing smaller pit crews.
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