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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved

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Originally Posted by JBotAlan View Post
The close-ups of the bumpers have to stop. Although, I thought it quite interesting--our pneumatics depressurized, and at the end of the match the camera settled on our pneumatics board. I would've thought it even more funny if I could see the problem from the stands, but there's no way I'd be able to see anything on those horrid LED displays (that have been there since I was a freshman). I mean, there are hundreds of regionals with hundreds of projectors. Why not use them? The resolution on the LED screens was just barely high enough to read the score. And the projectors in the pits needed to be doubled up, like at a regional, because when alliance selections came up I could not distinguish a 6 from an 8.
Because the LEDs are brighter. There is no way they could run projectors in the dome and have them any better than the LEDs. Look at the screens in the pits, and how much the ambient light effected them, even when the lights near the screens were shut off. Regionals use the projectors because they're in dark arenas - because of the dome's semi open ceiling, there would just be too much ambient light.

I think that they could of adjusted the text size on scoring computer to better suit the LEDs though. The wide screen display on Einstein was very impressive though.

My complaints -

The dynamic matches. I understand the field running early/late, but at one point its running TOO early. The communication system needs to be greatly improved. FIRST should take a look at Sundial and consider the possibilities for it. Every team has at least 1 laptop with them .. we used it at both of our regionals and it greatly helped us.

Pit announcement system. It's too much. The announcer reads things off non stop, and it seemed very quiet this year. Maybe they need to add a 3rd "message" display for each field that specific messages can be posted onto (at least for part requests). Some kind of a clock that shows how close the field is on time (*cough* sundial *cough*)

Teams leaving early. I realize that some teams have a plane to catch. In that case, they should be seated in an area where they can make a quiet exit. I was very disappointed in the teams that left Einstein before the Chairmans award was given, that was totally disrespectful to the team that wins the highest honor FIRST can give out.
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