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Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

1.You be the one to tell Mr. Kamen to limit the time of his speech. He started this event. He deserves as much time as he wants to get his point across. It our job to be a good audience.

That he is responsible for the event does not mean he is faultless - I respect the man greatly (how could I not, given what FRC has done for me?), but to not give frank criticism of his tendency towards over-long speech-making (to put it very lightly would verge on dishonesty. I don't think anyone who attended that event can say with a straight face that his speech during closing ceremonies was appropriately-lengthed.

2. The awards in between worked well. They took up the dead time between resets. If they hadn't done this it would have been even longer.

The total duration may have been longer, but the flow of the event would have been vastly improved. It killed the momentum and felt tedious.