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Originally Posted by Karibou
-BrendanB, I ended up being the recipient of the paper plane that you threw during the finals matches. I texted the number, but never got a response. I probably didn't type it into my phone right. Just thought you'd like to know in case you didn't get the text or can't  |
If ANYONE got one of those it wasn't from me! Some of our students were suprised by how many people I knew so they started writing my name on paper planes and sending them out so I have no idea how many there are in the dome with my name on them! I do not know what phone number was sent out!
The good:
Short pit walk.
Pits fields weren't too bad.
It was nice being within walking distance
There were a several great places for food within walking distance but the lack at the dome wasn't so good.
The bad:
Load in. This seemed very poor and maybe next year they can allow some teams who arrive earlier have a coach pre check in with the bands. FTC leaving at the same time we were enetering was very bad and was a traffic nightmare. We didn't get into our pit until 6ish.
Pit stands were far from sufficient.
The pits I found were very unsafe especially in the rookie rows. We had teams minibot poles in the aisles, tables, robots getting tested in the aisles, large groups of people who didn't move when you asked them to move they just starred at you, some teams took up half the row to work on a part, and it was just a nightmare trying to get through because they just wouldn't listen and some safety people walked right by most if not all of the occurrences.
No music on Einstein was really sad, the energy was just gone from the dome and you'd never expect we were in the finals.
I personally thought the Einstein background was rather cheesy and FIRST could have done a lot better especially with some of the multi colors and funky designs put up. It also doesn't do their sponsors justice since you can't read most of the logos they put up.
I was told by several quers on Thursday morning that we only had two matches PERIOD no matter if we were fully inspected or not and one man made us get out of the fast lane.
I'm still iffy on the concert, it was fun but I felt it ruined the event by announcing chairmans and it was still that giant curtain throughout the entire weekend.
I did find it sad when more people cheered for Jack Black and Morgan Freeman than Dean Kamen, the Dean's list, or the Chairmans award.
I loved how to stay on time we had to carry live robots onto the field!
I wish they could outlaw wheeled vehicles in the pits. Segways are one thing but several kids were on scooters or long boards.