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Re: Championship 2011 - St Louis - Your Thoughts Please?

So first, the good things about St Louis. The trip from the pits to the dome was great for people and robots. Parking was super convenient. Pits were good and I liked the layout. Traffic wasn't too bad in and out of downtown.

I wouldn't have minded fields in the pits, if there was anything approaching adequate seating. I didn't even try to watch the Curie Elims because there wasn't any hope of getting a seat anywhere. And there were certainly a number of teams that didn't help matters by trying to save seats. Clearly some teams didn't bring their gracious professionalism.

Matters weren't helped by the strange lack of a video feed in the pits. It was pretty annoying keeping track of the current match when we were in the dome on Friday. The lack of video feed, current match display, or updated rankings list forced me to use the FRC Spyder app to keep track of things. So I found it a bit laughable when the pit announced that we shouldn't trust any iphone or android apps for match schedules. I presume we should have just rented the magic 148 ball to stay on time.

Also, I feel like I should apologize to 359 for missing their Chairman's presentation. I skipped the concert because my wife would have had a panic attack in the concert and, you know, no one ever said anything about anything important happening at that optional concert thing. It sure would've been embarrassing if my team won it and I wasn't there with them. I'm also told that the complete lack of crowd control left our team mom/regional director in fear of her life when half the student population at championships tried to shove through a small set of doors to get to the concert. So I'm still glad I skipped the concert.

And don't get me started on Load-In. One guy with handing out the wristbands and jotting down team numbers on a cardboard box? I could have dragged two kids further up the line and gotten some wristbands for team 47 in addition to team 57. Cramming everybody through four doors in the morning wasn't that great either.

Sooooooo on the whole, I think St Louis has a lot of potential, but needs some serious work on signage and crowd control to get back up to the level of Atlanta.
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