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Originally Posted by Joe Matt
2.) Was it just me or were there a lot less people than previous years?
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There were just as many FRC teams as 2006, so perhaps teams could afford to bring fewer people this year. A cyclic downturn in sponsorship revenues, perhaps? Another possibility is that your own pit/field combination gave you routes that exposed you to less people. Someone walking from the furthest end of the pit to the farthest field will think there's a lot more people than someone walking from the near side to the near field.
Since I only watched the webcast, the only thing I could think of to improve would be to increase the capabilities of the webcast director. Apparently during finals on Newton (I was watching Galileo) they trotted out split-screen so that both autonomouses could be viewed close-up. Keep working on that so that it is available to all fields and regionals, and that'd be great. Too many times I missed something exciting on one end of the field when the webcast was centered on another exciting thing.
Otherwise, the webcast was pretty good.