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Originally Posted by sanddrag
FIRST needs to put their long standing teams at a higher priority than mass expansion, and they need to hold some real feedback sessions with teams or an advisory panel of teams, because it seems they have a mission of what they're trying to do, and it doesn't always align with what the teams want and need.
Also, the timing of the Chairman's Award and other top awards needs to be communicated clearly, before any music festival or dance party, and certainly before everyone leaves.
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Originally Posted by bam-bam
I'll add quickly that while the championship in person is a great experience, I feel like those unable to attend and have to watch through the webcasts were treated somewhat poorly.
Also, there was just poor scheduling on the behalf of award announcements. Not once throughout the entire Einstein broadcast was it mentioned that Chairman's would be presented at the concert, and that concert in turn is streamed on the exact same stream. At the very least, it could be mentioned in the passing when the awards will be announced, instead of leaving all of us viewers confused about when it will happened.
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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
Either stick to the published schedule, or have ubiquitous video screens showing when things are really going to happen.
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Originally Posted by Jared Russell
Once again, FIRST totally dropped the ball on making sure people can follow events from home. The Championship streams were awful, and scores and rankings weren't event updating through most of the weekend. It is 2015. Why do PNW, FiM, dozens of regionals, or Chezy Champs have better streams than the FIRST Championship?
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Originally Posted by Steven Donow
Plenty of things to go in both threads, but my initial though about Champs itself is the level to which badges/lanyards were regulated.
Even an, 'I'm going to the stands, my badge is there' was responded to with a, 'You need to go down to the registration desk'. Not to mention the fact that they were only allowing one direction at a time Saturday morning between the pits and stands, even going as far as cutting off teams from walking together...
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Seems like there is a recurring theme here that no one has flat out said yet:
FIRST dropped the ball with communication this year.
From not knowing what the badges were, or when i needed them, or where to get them.
The last minute 2 championship announcement.
Poor communication about what was going on in the arena and when.
So many aspects of this year could have been improved with better communicate on FIRSTs part.