[Nuttyman54]

On the subject of FTC, I thought that the volume from the FTC fields were way too loud. We could hear them over on Archimedes better than we could hear our own field. This is an easy fix, but it needs to be done.

I was very disappointed with the way the closing ceremonies/Einstein finals were run. The time between the first and second eliminations matches was something on the order of 20-25 minutes, which is just unreasonable. The teams had their robots on the field ready to go, and were just waiting. When they finally finished matches an hour and a half late, everyone was just rushed off instead of presenting the champions with their awards. As a member of one of the 2007 World Champions, I know that going up on stage to receive our award from Dean and Woodie in front of the entire Georgia Dome crowd was an incredible experience, and I'm highly HIGHLY disappointed that this year's teams were denied that.

I also feel that the CA presentation needs work. I understand the reasoning for moving it to the beginning of the ceremonies, but I feel that the way they presented it was anti-climactic. It can probably be fixed, but it needs retooling. I personally miss the confetti cannons and balloons for the CA at the end (although that would be a bad idea with the new order of presentation). Also, it seemed that the CA seats up on stage were actually not very good seats to be watching the matches or the awards from, but I wasn't up there so maybe I'm wrong.

Lastly, I mentioned this in this thread last year, I really believe that they should give out CA Honorable Mentions. Especially now that they're giving out the award at the beginning, I see no reason why they couldn't give the Honorable Mentions out immediately following.

That's all I can think of for now. Overall my biggest complaint is with the closing ceremonies, simply because they felt rushed and not quite as big of a deal as they should be.