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Originally Posted by BrendanB
You could tell that what happened on the field set the tone for the arena, the announcers weren't the same, Dean, Woodie, etc weren't the same and we were just seeing them via a webcast.
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I'm not an engineer. I cannot speak to how the field works, or how it
didn't during Einstein.
However, your statement struck me. I was sitting down in the front during Einstein, as I was speaking during the Awards ceremony.
Those watching on the webcast probably didn't see this:
Dean was down on the floor, behind the scoring table, during every match... trying to help figure out what was going wrong and how to fix it. He was ushered back to the stage for each speaker, but he wanted to help fix it too.
He was upset, the staff was upset...
we all were.
As you have seen in the letter from President Jon Dudas... FIRST is going to try to figure out what happened and make a solution. I fully believe that it's important to recognize each of the Division champion teams for their efforts on Einstein in some way... and then work on resolving the connection issues for next year.
I had no bearing on what happened, but I am truly sorry it did. I'm sure FIRST will make sure this never happens again.