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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
Things that did not go so well this year were..
- The scoring software. It really damaged the flow of the cometition and often sealed off the flow of information on alot of regionals.
- The penalties. The 30 point penalty is perhaps a bit excessive considering it's harder to score this year.
- The return of Sir Charles. 'nuff said.
- The lack of respect the animation, website, Inventor and Woodie Flowers award got at the championship. What they're not good enough for the main award cermony?
- The finals were too long. Those two speeches did not help. The flow was all out of whack.
- The food at the afterparty was not so hot.
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By and large, this is my list. I personally enjoyed Sir Charles when he was on Curie--he's just got that something that makes him an enjoyable announcer. And I didn't go to the wrap party (it was already 11:00 PM when I got home), so I can't comment on the food.
As for the awards and speeches, I'd personally drop one speech for next year, then move in the Friday morning awards. That didn't sit well with me either.
Penalties were meh. I'm reminded of the old saying "A good driver knows the limits of his machine; a great driver has a machine with no limits." FIRST knew the limits of safe human-robot interaction, and designed penalties accordingly. However, I'd be ecstatic to see a game next year where that safety issue was minimized or eliminated. (Imagine a HP setup somewhere between this year and FIRST Frenzy in reverse, with HPs putting game pieces into play from behind lots of lexan and aluminum, and you get my concept.)
Outside of that, and this is rather silly, I do kinda wish the gamepieces were usable elsewhere. Bins you can use to store stuff (I've got six in here right now), balls can be bounced, shot, and thrown at freshmen to motivate them to work--but what can you use a nine-pound tetra for? This is gonna take some thought.