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Unread 03-05-2012, 09:32
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Re: 2012 Lessons Learned:The Negative

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Originally Posted by Dad1279 View Post
1) Follow and enforce the rules that are in place. If teams are expected to follow the rules, as should field personnel, inspectors, and volunteers.
2) Don't ignore the students.
Multiple times our students questioned a situation that did not agree with rules and procedures published, and were either ridiculed or ignored.
Respect from the field personnel is a huge one for me. At one of our regional competitions the announcer saw a ref make an incorrect call in regards to driving through the key being a penalty. He commented on it in his play by play and the ref changed his call. This was after 4 straight matches a student tried to alert the head ref that the penalty was being called incorrectly by that ref and they were all ignored.
At championship my students were told by the head ref that since we designed our bumpers to be at the lowest position we designed it so other teams could drive onto us and that it is our fault that our robot was damaged by the other robot driving into our robot. He actually told the student that “it is pretty funny how they drove into you.” Unacceptable!

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Originally Posted by 1075guy View Post
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.
It was me that commented on the schedule. I know it doesn’t “suck”. I know it is difficult to put together. I was told by a reliable source that he ran some data and our team had the toughest schedule at championship. I suppose somebody has to get the toughest schedule, but it would seem like it would be someone that ends up ranked in the bottom ¼ not the top 1/3.

I would also agree with the posters that felt there should have been a glossary and better Q&A responses. Please just answer the questions like you are responding to a stakeholder in your organization, because you are.

I have posted in the positive thread, how about you?
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