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Everyone's already touched on the heat/humidity issue, and I will agree it was a big problem -- especially since we are trying to encourage folks from the community to watch and enjoy the competition, but the heat issue didn't encourage folks to stay long.

For the space we had, the volunteers worked REALLY hard and did a great job guiding teams through the breezeway, into and out of the loading area, etc. Great work volunteers!

The breezeway got really congested, robots running back and forth with no room to move. We were gridlocked a dozen times through those small doors since robots went in and out of the same door, some too tall to fit through. Recommend a one-way flow, find a way to have robots leave on the other side of the court., or even behind the video/curtain system.

Pits were 9' x 10', but really only 9'x9' was usable space due to wiring, signage behind pits.

The practice field was problematic, as the bright sun overheated laptops and were hard to see. Also robots got very hot sitting in the sun waiting for a spot on the field. If it rains next year, does that mean no practice field?
I recommend large canopies over the field or control area (there were only some for volunteers and the sign up area). Practice field registration was not controlled, as some teams just put their own team number in a ton of slots just in case they needed to use it (volunteers didn't restrict this).