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Originally Posted by EricH
What if...
--Everyone got in line at the doors and walked, not ran, to the seats/pits?
--Seat savers took a smaller amount of seats, leaving some on the aisles and other "boundaries" as "mixing" seats?
--Other teams and spectators were welcomed into the "mixing" seats, not chased away by seat savers?
--Teams that stand through their matches intentionally took the top seats or seats around the sides?
What if FIRSTers actually practiced some Gracious Professionalism in the stands? And yes, there are teams that do that now. How about some of the rest of the teams joining in?
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This. I agree 110%. It sucks, but there really is no option to try and fix the seating problems through rules and regulation. It just won't happen. Every team has their own needs, and regional planners already have enough on their hands. Just some food for thought, though: The Boston Regional had a magnet board with a picture of the stadium on it and a magnet block for every team with their number on it at the entrance. Teams could put their magnet over the blocks of seats that they reserved. As far as I know, it was a very lax system, nobody tried to enforce it. But I do remember that my team lost the seats we were sitting in on Thursday during Friday, so atleast in that one situation the magnet board was not really obeyed. I wasn't in the stands that often, so I can't offer more information about if that my team's case was an isolated case or fairly common.
Also, about crowd scouting: I don't think there should be any bias towards teams who choose not to participate. My team is pretty weak at scouting, so we would probably benefit from this. However, I can put myself in the shoes of teams with good scouting, and I imagine that for them it is a competitive advantage. Scouting can often make a huge difference, so teams that put in the effort to be good at it will use that to gain an advantage in the same way that they would use a great robot to gain an advantage. Now, I am sure that they are willing to help other teams get better at scouting, and maybe even let teams use their system (think any scouting app available on the android or apple App Store), just like a team with a good robot would help out other teams to make better robots. But they wouldn't just hand over all of the scouting data, like the team with a good robot wouldn't just hand over all of their CAD and code so that other teams could easily build the exact same robot. So if teams want to collaborate on scouting, that is great and it will really bring up the bottom scouting tier. But there is nothing wrong with a team that wants to keep their data to themselves.