1. Championship webcast was pretty bad
2. Pedestal: Perhaps it didn't need to be automated. Perhaps game should have paused and given it time to light if it became an obvious problem. Would make for less replays.
3. Replays were (in my experience) handled poorly.
a. I want a ruling from the GDC on whether replays are supposed to happen only when the winning/losing of the match is affected, or just any time there's a field fault.
b. If theres an obvious fault, stop the match. No need to have the robots go through all that wear before telling them to start over.
c. When there's a replay, let the teams know ASAP, not immediately before the match when their already set up.
4.Refs/scorekeepers overworked.
a.Rules were super subjective
i.Called differently not just between events but between quals/elims, and even sides of the field.
b. Too many things to watch: Bring in more refs
5. That thing with the balls bouncing out in week 1. That ruined team's seasons who could only afford one event, and it happened to be week 1. I think some sort of beta test of the game is a really good idea.
6. Low level play was very boring. Herding needed a more defined, easier to do definition, and it could have become a legitimate strategy, making low-level scores at least rise.
7. Not nearly enough calls for damage inside frame perimeter. Those bent cylinders I saw in the first few weeks were really scary.
8. Game, though fun, was too complex. I could not explain to my friends not in robotics what I was spending so much of my life on. It was hard for spectators, and even teams to grasp. "You get points for that(assisting)?", "You can cross the field?", are some things I heard from alliance member drive teams. Maybe there should be like a smaller, even less lawyery manual with just super basic rules, so drive team can read it without reading a book.
9. Dean's list interviews were a good addition, but it was very unclear what was going to be done there. It varied from event to event as well. Maybe there needs to be a defined set of questions, or maybe it should be asking questions to clarify the essay. Whatever it is, it should be predefined. Also, yeah, drive team and dean's list interview was hard. Super stressful.