[EricH]

Originally Posted by seg9585

he 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.

Actually, that was the original plan. The problem was that one of the "A/V cave" curtains hung too close to the rail curtain on the scoring-side stands to allow for safe robot transit, and moving the rail curtain would have blocked off the end of the stands (as well as subjected the scorer's table to getting whacked by robots). Moving the other curtain would have needed to be done early, and it wasn't.

I kind of get the impression that some of the inconveniences were caused by "new venue, need to make this work, oops, need to change this plan at the last minute to make this work somewhat".

Oh, and for sanddrag: There WAS supposed to be a pit where the safety advisor's table was, as you seem to have suspected. The associated team didn't show up, for reasons that I don't know. I saw the pit's sign get taken down on Thursday evening, I think during/right before load-in.