[Kevin Sevcik]

Ditto to a lot of this thread, especially disliking how the game really forced you to be an everything bot to have a decent chance of success. We're not that team and we do poorly whenever we attempt it. We stuck with specializing in tote stacking and ended up with a bot that could nearly clear the landfill when we were on, but was largely useless to an alliance without a can specialist. Based on the Curie picks, most teams figured 2 mediocre can+tote stackers were a better bet than a can specialist + tote specialist. Convincing the team to avoid the omni-bot trap next year is going to take a bit of doing.

Things I haven't seen mentioned:

It really should have been obvious that herding 256 teams from the Pits into the Dome after alliance pairings was going to take forever unless someone organized it. If they'd pulled teams in order of their elim match play, or just prioritized robots vs. mini-pit crews, they probably could have started division elims a lot sooner than they did. If I recall correctly, Tesla was running something like 45 minutes late because of this.

Crowd control is, of course, a perennial problem. The confusion Saturday morning about opening the doors to the Dome but not opening the doors to the Pits seemed unnecessary. Especially when security tried to tell us we HAD to go to the Dome and couldn't wait for the Pits to open. Plus the lovely chokepoint on the 2nd-level where they only had one set of doors open between the Dome and Pits.

Rules enforcement. If you're going to make a rule, you need to enforce it:
Transportation Config was pointless because, to my knowledge, it was never enforced. I know of tether bots that were transported in two separate pieces because it was easier and deemed safe. Meanwhile we put wear on Anderson connectors to make sure we transported in our inspected transport config.
Since everyone was told on Friday to clear a 5x5 for a crate on Saturday morning, we did so and we greeted with a crate on Saturday morning. Literally no other pit around us bothered to do so and had their entire pit to work in. If we'd known this was optional, we wouldn't have bothered doubly inconveniencing ourselves. As it was, we insisted our crate be removed so we could do some work on the robot and pack without it in there like all the other teams around us.

Also better communication. I there were at least 2 different versions of how to get your crate removed on Weds. First we went to the SES desk who told us to just put the empty sticker on it and it'd magically disappear. I believe this was also the version announced over the PA. Our inspector, however, told us we actually had to request SES to remove it. We eventually shoved it into an empty aisle and let FIRST figure out what they wanted to do with it. Since it reappeared to inconvenience us on Saturday, they apparently figured things out.