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Originally Posted by Katie_UPS
I don't want to get in a back and forth, so this will be my last post (and we can PM if you'd like to continue conversation).
Finishing awards while teams move: drive teams? teams in the stands? That's pretty disrespectful to the teams winning awards and the speakers presenting them. No one feels too great about themselves when they're talking/being presented and the audience is too preoccupied with something else.
And teams not moving but the matches moving? You can't stop people from moving and I'm pretty certain 80% of the FIRSTers I know would want to move to actually see the robots.
I'm not saying I'm glad things turned out the way they did. I couldn't quite get excited about Einstein after the issues weren't fixed. I'm just saying that FIRST didn't have too many options and had legitimate reasons for not switching fields.
However, I wouldn't mind them presenting all the awards while field crews and FTAs switched all the FMS components of the fields (have one crew gut Einstein's FMS and another gut the most reliable field and then swap). I would gladly take a delay of any time span to fix the problem (and I'm sure you're thinking "well then we can just switch fields", but that's a hairier mess, in my opinion, than switching field elements).
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This'll be my last post about it too. I meant just move the drive teams, robots, refs, field crew etc and keep the crowd where they are until awards are given out. Then when they're done with the podium and the presentation, let people move. It would present some logistical issues with everyone moving at once, but I feel it would have been better than having illegitimate matches played on Einstein. People have enough class that if you told them to wait before they move, they'll wait. Then you put it on the jumbo-tron in case not everyone got a seat at the new location.