[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by Josh Fox

While we're talking about AV...

I'm not sure how other fields were, but it seemed like every day when we came in the volume of the sound effects and MCs on Galileo were unreasonably loud. I had to go down stadium-side and get a volunteer's attention and ask them if they could ask the audio guy to turn it down several times, and frequently it seemed as if they did nothing. I heard numerous complaints from students, parents, and friends on our team and others around us.

Aside from the volume issues, there were several times when an MC's mic was clearly left on while they were trying to carry on a conversation at the side of the field mid-match, which didn't combine well with the GA calling the match and music playing. I mostly only heard snippets of Mark Leon talking about outer space (which is welcome any other time), but it was very distracting. The timing of music being turned on fairly consistently for the last 1/3rd or so of several subdivision awards speeches Saturday was also irritating. If we're trying to celebrate what teams are doing, it'd be great if we could hear what the awards were for.

We got many reports at the "crossroads of the worlds" re: sound levels esp. on Galileo. They were all reported. It appears this was a struggle over many days.