[James1902]

Posting on mobile on the bus home so please forgive some typos.

1) Don't have the Einstien matches on one side of the stadium and closing ceremonies on the other. It messes with the flow of the event, adds more time delays go an already behind schedule (probably) evening, and moving a group of students through those crowds efficiently and safely is a nightmare. Also it left few people to cheer for this year's Champion Alliance as they got their award.

2) If you want FIRST to grow outside the usual crowd someone must provide a better home viewing experience. That means tailoring a broadcast too a remot audience instead of pumping out the in-stadium feed on a webcast. The FRC Live bit is a step in the right direction but the desk commentators were grossly underutilized and the on field interviews didn't really provide any nuance or useful insight. That's not entirely the field reporters fault BTW, that's a much harder job than people think and FIRST should have prepped her better or got someone whose done more of those type of standup reports before.

3) there needs to be more arena staff at Champs, especially in the upper bowl on Sat. There was no one to be found as people sat in the aisles, threw toilet paper (don't know where they got that) over the jumbo torn and clogged the stairs.

4) Make an announcement to stop throwing paper airplanes.