The pits:
Too far away. Closer then last year for people, possibly for robots also, but its simply too far away. I *believe* there is a large parking garage next to the stadium. Whats wrong with having them there, assuming you put some kind of weather protection up?
Don't let spectators into the pit, but don't restrict the teams from having people in the pit. Possibly distribute the wrist bands the first day, and require them to be allowed into the pit. I saw lots of little kids running around, with robots moving all over the place and power tools in use. Not a good thing, more so when you are pushing safety this year.
Comptetion:
An overhead camera might be better for displaying the matches on the screens.
Posssibly have an offical video recording of all the matches. We had one match where the scores were totally wrong, and they wouldn't let us argue it (They said we had 9 points, when we were able to score 12pts at one time, no penalties that match)
Closing ceremonies was way too long. I was falling asleep sitting there.
Provide a place down on the floor for teams to cheer. Teams standing every match made it hard to see.
Stagger the lunch times. Waiting in a 40 minute line for food is not acceptable. This is perhaps the easiest thing to do, and I hope someone from FIRST takes notice.
Other:
We had run a Cat5 cable through our hotel hallway.. it was on the side of the hallway, and only ran infront of our rooms, but some team kept yanking on it, then I heard them talking about cutting it. Not a good thing to be doing.
Ramps on robots shouldn't be allowed, imo. We don't want to flip anyone by accident.
Expand the aisles between the pits. It was a bit hard to get through them when you had teams gathered outside their pit.
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Originally Posted by suneel112
The only real complaint I had was that huge black tarp at the top of the Georgia Dome. I don't know about the rest of you, but I like sunlit robot matches.
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The CMU camera does not deal well with changing lighting conditions. It would make it useless if the matches were lit by the sun.