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Unread 16-04-2007, 09:23
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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved

The only way to avoid teams leaving early during the awards is to somehow redo the schedule so that the awards end earlier. Pushing flights later into the evening becomes a travel headache. It is also difficult to begin matches on Thursday because tech-inspection takes a full day for 340 robots.

Some suggestions that would affect the competition very little:
  • Start Opening ceremonies 30-minutes early and run Friday matches 30-minutes longer. This saves an hour to help end awards earlier on Saturday.
  • During the semi's and final championship matches, put the teams and awards on a specific schedule. Run two semifinal matches, then 15-minutes of awards; then two more matches, then 15-minutes of awards. This can similarly be done for the final matches. The teams then know exactly when they must be ready. There was much dead-time waiting for the teams to return to the field after awards had been announced.
  • Do not run back-to-back practice matches and then reduce the number of practice matches. Running two consecutive practice matches is no good to a team that is not functioning well. Opening ceremonies could then possibly be on Thursday evening. This would help Friday morning matches to start on time (although matches ran ahead of schedule this year) and the opening ceremonies would not need to be rushed.

Just some thoughts after experiencing 8 championships.