[Racer26]

A few things:

Someone mentioned earlier in the thread the matchmaking algorithm. It patently doesn't suck. It's a very complex multidimensional matrix problem, and it does a very good job at producing a 'fair' schedule. It makes an assumption that all teams are equal in power, and thus, a given schedule will be 'harder' or 'easier' for some teams. It has a large number of parameters which can be set, including minimum match separation and so on. There's a well written paper explaining exactly how it works. Someone can provide a link I'm sure.

My biggest wish is for the robots to stop using consumer-grade electronics (the D-Link radio) in an industrial environment. It wasn't designed for the kinds of shock-loads and so on it receives in the hostile environment of an FRC bot, so it should come as no surprise that things like the power connector don't hold up terribly well to the abuse we put them through.

Einstein made it evident that we need to a) solve the FMS/robot comms issues, and b) have a much stronger plan in place for what to do when Einstein has systemic issues.

The people complaining about the CMP division size: get used to it. It will be the new norm unless they go to 8 divisions, which comes with the complication of where to put that many fields. We have reached a point now where the number of regionals qualifying teams to CMP completely fills the ~350team capacity CMP had pre-2012, and we're only adding MORE qualifying events with each passing year.

Better webcasts. Absolutely. A few this year, GKC, and GTREast, come to mind as having been pretty good. Perhaps better casting and archiving will come from the newfound Google partnership? After all, Google owns Youtube.