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Originally Posted by DonRotolo
... I've been to a few.
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I have, too. I was as KC and can attest that it was a very well run event. Two of FIRST's finest FTAs and a great team of key volunteers made it run nearly flawlessly.
There was one bit of excitement just before lunchtime on Saturday, when we saw the Head Ref and both FTAs dashing from the field to the back of the pits, to fetch a critical item from the spares case. Sparing the technical details, they solved a problem that involved multiple part failures and required the back-up scoring table bridge -- the delay of 45 minutes was recovered by pushing quickly through the last six qualifying matches (with no further troubles) and shortening lunch by 15 minutes, so eliminations and the awards ceremony ran exactly on schedule.
Congratulations to the technical staff and volunteers who made it all work. I will be glad the next time I get the opportunity to come to GKC.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)