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Originally Posted by KarenH
FIRST used to save the awards till after all the matches. So in between matches we would have long periods of waiting, numerous time outs, and a bored crowd. Then we would have an awards ceremony that went on and on. It is a much better use of time to present a few awards while the robots are cooling off between matches. (Teams get 20 minutes or more between qualifying matches; why should things be different in the eliminations?)
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I just want to back up what Karen has said. Those of us that have been around long enough to remember the days at EPCOT where the awards ceremony was a single three-and-a-half-hour-long event never, ever, ever want to go back to that structure. Interleaving the final matches on Einstein with a few awards has been a much better solution, albeit slightly painful at times.
-dave
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