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Someone really needs to reign in Dean Kamen's speeches before they cause the whole friggin' event to run two hours late. His first speech during the opening ceremonies was a great, touching speech. His speech before the final matches, however...ugh, that was terrible. The fact that you couldn't understand 80% of the words in the upper-level stands didn't help.

The field to the right of Curie (can't remember which that was) had use of the actual field speaker system for its award ceremony, and Curie did not. The result was that, as both award ceremonies happened simultaneously, it was nearly impossible to hear anything said for any of the Curie awards.

Did anyone at all think through the logistics of transportation to/from the finale? Christ, that was terrible.

Also, giving out awards between every single match on the Einstein field is a horrible idea that did nothing but try everyone's patience. They don't do this at regionals, and no one complains about the regional award ceremony procedure. Why do it at championships?

All that negativity aside, championships were a blast, and I truly hope to get back there in the near future.