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Re: 2013 Lessons Learned: The Negative
First, THANK YOU to all the refs, judges, and volunteers. You were all so kind and your work was great and really appreciated! On to suggestions for improvements:
1) Webcasts should be FULL FIELD. When there are 6 robots all playing and with today's technology, a decent resolution full field shot is all we need. Closeups of robots picking up frisbees, joysticks being moved, etc. is extremely frustrating. It's as if the video directors are only used to following ONE game piece (football, basketball, etc.) at a time. With up to 6 flying simultaneously you MUST have a full field view. I love replaying a video of a match 6 times and watching a different robot each time. It's so nice!
2) Agree with the real time scoring being a bad font (especially the match number). Been frustrated with this for years. Also, make the alliance selections and everything fill the screen. There's a LOT of wasted space there.
3) During Einstein, do not blow 5 minutes of our time after every match dancing the hokey pokey or YMCA or whatever while you calculate the score! Just end the match, darken the field a bit, switch over the the podium put in one of the 5 minute speeches while the field is reset and the score is calculated. Otherwise with the 8 matches played there (this year), the day lasted 40 minutes longer than it needed to. Wow, getting out 40 minutes sooner and not cutting one second of speeches out? Why not? Let's do two things at once please.
Thanks again for a great event!
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2014 Buckeye Champions - thanks 846 & 639, Troy Champions - thanks 33 & 5193, Imagery, Entrepreneurship & Industrial Design Awards
2013 Kettering Champions - thanks 70 & 862, Three Imagery Awards
2012 Western Mich Finalist - thanks 1918 & 85
2011 Trav. City Web Site, Troy Xerox, Mich State Semi Finalist & Judges Awards
2010 Kettering Champion - thanks 67 & 70, Kettering Rockwell Innovation 2010 Troy Finalists - thanks 33 & 288, and Rockwell Innovation
2009 Kettering QF, Detroit Finalists Detroit Creativity Award, Troy Semi-Finalists Troy Creativity Award
2008 WMRI Finalists - thanks 1243 and 904, 2008 Kettering Champion - thanks 67, 1075 and 2619
2008 IRI Judges Award Winner, Great Lakes Finalists - thanks 66 & 217, Western Mich
2007 Curie Division Champions - thanks 330 & 1270
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