[Joe Johnson]

One suggestion for giving them something to do that I think might work is to have some folks make up some clever PollEveryWhere Questions (I have no stock in the company but I'm a big fan).

There are a TON of very cool things that you could do with a crowd that big and the huge screens they have.

Ask which field has the best robot alliance on Einstein and watch the results live -- more and more people vote as they see the "wrong" team winning (wrong in this context is any result they don't agree with).

Ask for suggestions from the audience for future game elements and watch a live wordcloud be generated with everyone's answers (swear filters available) -- of course WATER GAME will end up in a HUGE font in the middle of the wordcloud.

Vote for defenses, ask questions about the design challenge this year, maybe pick the best FIRST game ever in a multipart vote off (which was better Hexagon Havoc or Aim High?)...

I think this could be a huge hit and lots of fun actually.

Dr. Joe J.