[Seth Mallory]

At Seattle we had two regonals going at the same time in the same room. The volume of the music could not be turned up as loud as it would interfer with the other regonal. If teams can get people to move out of the way quietly that is great but I have seen folks hurt by a moving robot. I would rather have noise then someone hurt. We were at a regonal once and had to evacuate the hotel along with six other teams. We were the only team that could locate and count that we had all of our members. It is easy to anticapate an event after it has happin and to react like the TSA does. It is hard to plan for events before they happin. I command the teams that try to plan ahead for the "if's" that may or may not happin.