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Re: Suggestions about champs?

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Originally Posted by Anne Bergeron
Alright,

I have read most of the posts about the Championships. The planning committee and the city of Atlanta does want to know what was good and bad in order to improve next year. There has been a lot of criticizing on a number of topics such as the food and the walk from the pits to the dome. I would like to hear more suggestions as to what you think could be done to change the situations that were less than perfect. So what do you think? What should be changed and how?
I thought the pit-to-field walk (for the robot) was awesome. But I would like to see extra passes for at least 3 pit crew members to join the driveteam on the field during matches. They cannot realistically make it to the stands (esp in Archimedes) to watch their robot compete. Since there is so much space on the floor, it should not cause any problems to allow 12 extra people per field to stand out there and watch. The pit crew definitely needs to see their robot matches so they're ready to repair/improve it when it goes back to the pits. It would also allow somebody besides the drive team to cart the robot back, in case the driveteam wants to watch matches they can go directly to the stands.

Although the walk was certainly long and tiring to make for spectators between the pits and stands, I think the main issue is people flow. Many times it would be frustrating to see that every and all "down" escalators were jam packed because everyone was standing on them. I don't know who or how could control this, but it would be nice to utilize them as "walk left, stand right", esp on the way down to the pits where there were 3 escalators. Yes there are stairs down the hall, but it'd be nice to see escalators used like most other places or the airport walking conveyors. It would help the people traffic flow a little better. Unless of course there is a shorter or better route. It's gonna be difficult either way having thousands and thousands of people taking the same route. It would be nice to see them open up more of the doors to the buildings for people to enter or exit. In archimedes, it would be nice to have a few doors on that end open from the outside so that some people wouldn't have to fight the crowds inside on the long walk around. (I only went out one of those doors once, and not sure if they were unlocked to come back through). Then there can be a sign directing Archimedes division people to that side.

The only other main issues I've seen or heard about would be the audibility of announcements in some pits, and the overhead screens being hard to see in the pits. It was difficult to hear several pit announcers for your match call, and somebody suggested possibly a "tone or sound" to preceed an announcement. Only once or twice did I see the calls made too early and we ended up waiting 5-6 matches before ours, but otherwise the queuing efforts were excellent! Whatever was done for that, I hope to see again!

And others have mentioned the practice field. Not sure if there's room, but maybe there could be a second one.... One field for 2 divisions, one field for the other two. It's gonna be a pain either way you look at it, having 300 teams there, but having an extra field (or even half a field!) could alleviate the waiting and strict limited time. Or, if 2 full fields are avialable, you can use a half-field for each division.

I thought everything else was pretty darn good. The wrap-up party was fun, and the food there was great.
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