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Originally Posted by Hot_Copper_Frog
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Regional and District Championship winners have their essay/executive summary and chairman’s video posted online. It was strongly encouraged that winning teams submit a practice presentation video as well, though not every team took part in that.
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This is by far the best change. It's extremely eye-opening to see what we can try to achieve.
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The team is allowed an extra two minutes to present, if they so choose (5-7 minutes), though the 10 minuted total limit stayed the same.
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We tend to talk a lot, so this was definitely useful.
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A mentor was allowed to sit in on the presentation session without counting against the 3-presenter limit. The mentor was theoretically allowed to film the session, but from what I understand that wasn’t true at all events.
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I was initially very into this, but then started to think I may be putting too much pressure or may cause an issue, so I left it up to the students if I should sit in there or not. We decided that it would ultimately help. However, at this point I already had a pretty good understanding that our content wasn't as strong as potential teams because of the first change.
From my POV: Our presentation was on point from what we practiced. It was by far the best presentation we gave. The questions were pretty good feedback though, it pointed out a lot of things that we need to add on (as far as content) goes. I could see the judges start struggling to ask questions, which (being a judge before) is a decent indicator to me that we need deeper content.
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No formal feedback from the judges at any event.
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I don't really know how to feel. I've been a big advocate of formal feedback for FTC, and I see the other side of the discussion. It sucks because a lot of pressure is put upon the Judge Advisor or Person-In-Charge, to field any issues or concerns that may come up. It only takes one bad apple (team or mentor) to yell at a Person-In-Charge for this to happen (which I'm sure is what happened).
I'm not sure how Chairman's judging works, but as a judge it takes a lot of extra effort to write down really really good feedback. IT's got to be constructive, highlight the good aspects of the team and provide suggestions for improvement. In the course of a competition....this is a lot of information to do for 30 teams. I cannot imagine having to do this perfectly for 50 to 60 teams at a FRC competition.
So...personally, I was ok with this for this year. We weren't very competitive and I could take away what the judges were looking for.