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Originally Posted by Steve W
I will post one for all regionals. Alliance selection should be after a break of at least 15 mins if not 1/2 hour. Teams just do not have enough time to evaluate Saturdays matches and finalize their picks. I believe, after the PM's I got, that there are many who would like to see this happen. I was told that it use to be that way. There should still be time after to set up strategy but it can be 30 min instead of an hour.
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This has been suggested
many times over the past few years, and while I agree with it, it's FIRST's call. I believe that FIRST gave a reason for this a while back, but I do not remember what it was.
Mike - teams can email FIRST to find out who their regional director is. That regional director then has links to all the committees for their area. I think some committees are not made up of all dedicated FIRST participants (yes, could be a problem in itself) and don't make themselves known. I will find out if a Regional Director list can be made available publicly to teams, or at least to team leaders. I agree that all teams should know who their rep is, and I'm not sure yet if there is a reason for it being unknown.
Heck, as a chair, I would not be against anyone AT a regional to ask the volunteers if they can point you in the direction of a committee member. Hopefully they are around and available.
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It is a good idea to contact your regional's planning people, but I do think discussion on these forums can help too - someone else might have a better idea or information on why something is the way it is before you talk to the planners.
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Yes good point - my main intent was to avoid more complaint threads from popping up and try to inject some constructive way in getting their comments heard. There are a number of regional specific threads that everyone can discuss things in, if desired, before contacting committees.
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Originally Posted by Don Knight
Amy,
I'm suprised that team leaders don't have contact with someone on the regional planning committee. I like to send all the teams a welcome and thanks for signing up to attend our (Arizona) regional. And then when the regional is over follow up with a, how did things go, what can we do better email.
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Some do, some don't. If the commitees, like yours and mine, send out email updates and such, then team leaders have the contact. If there are committees that don't do this, then they are as good as anonymous.
(ps - i keep editing my post so I don't keep adding new ones to the thread)