[Not2B]

First - my comments -

Crowd control into and out of the pits. I'm sure they had a reason to close the big doors into the pits on Thursday afternoon and Saterday, but not Thursday morning and Friday. But it made for poor crowd circulation. If you are going to run it that way, make the escalators run opposide from the way they were running so you didn't have 2 steams of people trying to cross over each other. A little more crowd flow management would be good. (The students on my team are waiting for a "When I worked at Sea World..." story, because I did infact work at Sea World doing crowd contro.)

Second - my take on seeding...

Scouting makes all the difference. Lightning Robotics, 862, did not win a single match all weekend. 86 out of 86. No ones fault. We know we did well. The team was in high spirits all weekend. We even had a few teams talk to us about the finals. We didn't get picked, but we were considered by a few. In fact, I've never seen our team happier than we were in dead last place. So much so that I'll put a post up about it in a few days - it impressed me THAT much.

So don't worry too much about the seeding - Just work well with your teammates, do your personal best, and have fun - the rest will work its self out.