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Originally Posted by kborer22
FRC also seemed to be in a state of disarray, there were 2 MC's and 2 play by play announcers. Blair and Shenqua both on the same field while cool, seemed a bit.....much. While talking to some of the volunteers, they were also not enjoying them selves.
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As far as game announcing and Emceeing goes, rather than rotate, I believe Blair and Chiniqua (sp?) thought it might help speed things up to just "hand off" rather than run to the other end of the field to save a wee bit of time on the late-running event.
With game announcing, George A. has been kind enough to share the mic with me because I'm a "GA in-Training". There's no miscommunication or "disarray" there.
There are a few contributing factors to why we're running behind there, and they include:
1) Teams taking too long to get their robots on and off the field
2) Refs deliberating for a long time about penalties (and I will qualify that by giving ridiculous props to the head ref who has been busting his tail this entire regional).
3) Technical issues, largely due to teams slamming into driver station walls. I witnessed at least 5 times on Saturday where controller boards fell off the driver station. That's being conservative.
To be critical, the biggest issue for me at the NY regional is the sound. When I'm on the field, I'm fighting over being able to hear the Emcees and being blasted over by the FTC area and FRC pit area. I'm not sure if its the same in the stands, but it really makes my job harder when I hear the field error sound to realize it's on FTC and not FRC.