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Originally Posted by Libby K
There was a much bigger script and it was, for some unknown reason, not read.
Anyone sitting near us on the floor can vouch for the fact that she was NONE too happy about it. The judges worked very hard on a script to emphasize the work they do, and it was not given.
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I'm glad to hear that it wasn't just some gross oversight, although it did not turn out as planned. I was very disappointed in the speech and lack of video. The speech that was given gave no information about the phenomenal team that is 1538, and I said out loud to my friend afterwards "That could have applied to literally any Chairman's team". The CCA speech should not be among the shorter speeches given. I've seen an unfortunate trend in recent years that give the appearance of de-emphasizing the CCA (such as announcing it at the concert in 2011 with no prior information given to anyone that it would be presented there, and also with a criminally short speech). This needs to change, there is no excuse to cut the most important award presentation of the season short.
Other improvements that can be made based on my experiences this year:
-8 matches at champs is unacceptable, period. I remember a time when we were guaranteed 10 matches. What happened to that? It worked in favor of the team I was with this weekend (1983), but the effects on the results were obvious.
-Reffing this game was a nightmare, too many judgement calls of 3 or 20pt penalties caused many inconsistencies between events. Vantage point mattered a lot, and a lot of calls were missed because refs just couldn't or didn't see it.
-Field consistency. The tolerances on the pyramids were atrocious. If the dimension tolerances are 1/4", they need to remain 1/4". The pyramid itself was also prone to coming apart, and I saw many instances of teams tipping it up or causing it to skew. The carpet also was prone to coming up around the pyramid base and caused several issues, and several replays
-RTS/Scoring. It did improve over the season, but it still wasn't good enough to eliminate the need to hand count, which not only greatly increased the field reset time, but also was the cause of several scoring errors (including Einstein).