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Re: 2013 Lessons Learned: The Negative

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Originally Posted by Smitty1707 View Post
The thing I haven't seen mentioned yet that definitely needs said:

Karthik needs to be given a larger space for his presentation. (More time would be fantastic as well). The number of people who came and were thoroughly interested and engaged throughout was incredible, but I am sure there were many more who could not get in to the room, or did not want to fight the crowds. There was something to take away from this presentation to teams of all resource and ability levels.

This may have been true of other presentations as well, but I believe Karthik's in particuar was probably the most blatant problem.
Agreed. With the conferences being free this year, this was a BIG problem. Shutting out almost as many people as were in the room?! Time for a bigger room. I don't think this was something they were ready for with the change in attendance policy. I have heard that they're looking at using the Ferrara Theater for the more widely-attended conferences next year.

My other thoughts:
-Fewer teams, more divisions, or both. 8 matches was completely unacceptable.
-The Hall of Fame setup. Embarassing. These guys should have a way bigger display space - after all, they're the FRC role models. It wouldn't be that hard to find a better, bigger, more advantageous space for them a la Atlanta's HoF display.

I've got more, but those are the big two.
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