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Re: Overview: Nationals

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Originally Posted by abeD
escalators don't break....They're just temporarily stairs
That happens to be a joke that comedian Mitch Hedburg(sp?) has done..."Escalators can never be broken - they can only become stairrrrrssss"..... He's hilarious in case anyone was wondering.

The walk for the robots was obviously much better than Houston, as everyone stated. Hopefully Atlanta has a decent plan and facility capability to help the spectators long walk. The traffic flow was the major obstacle in that long walk.

I didn't have to take the long walk too much, but one of the few times I did, the outside down escalator wasn't working... And you know what? I was happy! Because it meant that people had to move themselves down the escalator, which meant that people traffic flowed a little quicker!! (never saw if the Up was broken)
If I had any complaints about the escalators and time of travel between pit and field, it would be that people consistently stood on ALL "downs" to the pits (instead of using one as walking and one as standing since there were usually 2 down). But there were stairs down the hall, so no big deal.

That distance is a big problem for any pit crew that wants to watch the matches their robot is in. They cannot feasibly make it in time (esp in Archimedes being the opposite corner of the entrance!). It would be nice to have some allowance for "Team Support", or 3 extra field passes to pit team members for all matches (not just finals). The "white" space in the arena is so large that I don't think it'd cause a problem having 12 extra team members on the sidelines during matches. This could also allow them to take the robot back to the pits, while the driveteam could go straight to their seats to watch matches.

And yeah.. the food prices seemed ridiculous... I don't know what else you can say about that... especially for those without the coupons.

I must commend the queuing staff. The organization and operation of that process seemed to go quite smooth and much improved since regionals. All of the refs and volunteer staff are greatly appreciated. With this years game being so involved, with so many possible penalties (locations and types of penalties) and all the functions, they did the best they could. I think there were roughly 6 refs on each field (?) and may have been beneficial to have a couple more due to the complexity of the game... but they may not have been obtainable.

Overall, having only been to Houston, I'd say the positives outweigh the negatives in all respects so far and we look forward to Atlanta next year.
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