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Re: Judges in Pits at Championships?
I completely understand the judges don't have a lot of time to talk with teams, but that's no reason why some teams should see NO judges at all. Take this how you want, but I'm going to use my own team as an example just because its a situation I know about. 1675 struggled through the regionals...new designs, new features, etc. Everything clicked in Atlanta though and the robot finally worked how it was originally intended to. Would we have been a serious contender for any of the technical awards? Probably not...but it sure would have been nice if the kids would have gotten a chance to tell the team's story to someone in a blue shirt. We had a pair of judges come to our pit, give us a sticker, and say "we'll be back" - and they never did come back.
Either get more judges for Atlanta, or only judge the previous winners (not a big fan of that solution)...or decrease the total number of teams.
Kev
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Team 71: 1999, 2000 (Driver), 2001-2002 (Driver, Animator) // Team 1064: 2003 (Co-founder, Coach), 2004 (Coach) // Team 1714: 2006-2007 (Mentor, Coach) Team 1675: 2005-2007 (Mentor, Coach), 2008 (Mentor), 2009-2017 (Mentor, Coach) FLL: '04 (Judge), '05 (Ref), '06 (Ref), '07 (Ref), '08 (Judge, Ref), '09 (Judge), '10 (Ref), '16 (Judge Advisor) // Ref: '05 (IN, IRI), '06 (IN, IRI), '07 (IN, IRI), '08 (WMR, Curie)
WI RPC: 2006 - 2016 // FRC Inspector: '07 (WI), '08 (WI, IL), '09 (WI, IL), '10 (WI, CMP), '11 (WI, IL, CMP), '12 (WI), '13 (Northern Lights) 2007 WI Woodie Flowers Award Finalist // 2011 Wisconsin Regional Outstanding Volunteer // 2011/2013 Midwest Regional Chairman's Award
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