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My biggest complaint was the sound system (especially the buzzer and bugle). They didn't have any short throw speakers, so in order to make the game sounds audible on the field, they were painfully loud in the stands. I was talking to a guy in the stands who was recording the audio of the competition, and the decible meter on his tape deck was reading143dB during the buzzers (for comparison, an air raid siren is 135 dB, and a gun shot can range from 130 to 190dB, depending on weapon). According to NIOSH, exposure of just 150 milliseconds of sound at this level can result in perminant hearing loss.