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Originally Posted by Jon Anderson
A nuisance at the championships was the ridiculous lengths that people are extending to in order to win the safety award. A fine line between safety and annoyance exists and the line was crossed. The award should be done away with completely or modified to include words like professionally or "not in a way that bothers everyone while contributing next to nothing in terms of safety."
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I think I received the same safety sheet from 5 different teams. Safety posters are fun, unique safety sheets are OK, but I agree, it was a bit excessive to the point that Safety Kate didn't even read it all. I was also a bit disappointed with the lack of Safety Judge involvement. I saw them congregating quite a bit, but only one ever came to my pit. I spent a lot of time preparing for their visits. Yes, we should be safe anyway, but after being visited twice a day at the regionals, I had prepared the things that I had been missing before and felt it was for nothing when our pit was never evaluated.
I also agree that the sound system in the pits was awful. I realize that there is a lot of noise involved with that amount of people, but I never once could make out an announcement.
Overall, though, this event was one of the best experiences I have ever had!