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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
Your list is wrong as well. Most regionals are, in fact, organized by FIRST staffers. Who did you think the Regional Directors were? Even the volunteer RDs work closely with FIRST in NH to pull off a regional. A LOT more goes into regional planning than any FIRST team sees, and it's the RD's job to keep it that way.
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I was in fact in daily conversations with people on the Boston regional planning comitte. The vast majority of the people on that board were not paid by FIRST. As a rookie regional one would think that more FIRST staffers were involved but this is not the case. Maybe other regionals get more FIRST support, I would be suprised considering it was a rookie regional.
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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
I don't even want to think about the complaints there would be if FIRST had a fancy goal clearing system and only 10 teams could afford to replicate it.
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I was going to mention it before but the center goal clogging issue reminded me of 2004 and the ball dumping mechanism. Teams didn't make that. It wasn't necessary to a practice field. Neither is the ball collection of this year. That year the dumper had problems and wasn't fixed until several weeks into the competition season.
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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
I don't know what to tell you if you think the GDC isn't already working feverishly on the next game. You've already commented that you don't know how they work. If you don't think it takes every day of the 7 months they have to design a game, test it, balance it, design and draw a field, and build the field for kickoff.... Well I don't know what to tell you.
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I know what to tell them. They need more time. Perhaps 2 game design committes working on games. It's part of my main issue that FIRST does not understand how important the game is to the program.
I wish I could elaborate now but I'm out of time. I'll respond back tonight as to why the game is so important and why it needs all the attention.