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Re: Hall of Fame Input

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Originally Posted by Meredith Novak View Post
As more teams are added to the Hall of Fame, we are struggling with the role it should play at the Championship Event. Although a showcase for the Chairman's winning teams, the HOF should also be a tool to inspire the FIRST community. If you have any suggestions on what your team would like to see from the Hall of Fame displays/participants to serve all the teams (present and future), please post here. I will prepare these to present to FIRST and the other HOF teams. Thank you.
For about 3 or 4 years I sat in the HOF at nationals. Needless to say, it wasn't fun. It was an honor to see that the hard work that my team had done was still being recognized, but the way that the HOF is set up and run needs to be changed. On my old team (175), we'd take very few kids to the championship event. And after splitting the team up between the drive team, scouting, and pit crew, we were spread very thin, and then on top of that, we had to put people in the HOF. Sitting in the HOF during the event, not being able to really see my team in action, or even see a screen that the matches were being displayed on stunk. It just felt like the kids that were in the HOF were more or less separated from the rest of the event.

What would be a great alternative to the HOF I think would be putting all of the HOF teams in their own pit row. Give them bigger pit spaces to accommodate not only their team, and their robot, but also so they can set up their HOF display in the pit. This would not only allow the teams to be together and not so separated, but it would also allow people passing through to look at HOF to view their robot, their team dynamic skills, and all of the other fancy stuff that goes into the HOF displays.

I honestly don't understand why FIRST won't do this.
Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of the hall of fame, I just know for a fact if you asked any student that has to sit there all day how they felt about it, they'd probably feel the same way (at least a little) I do/did.

Not to be a Debbie Downer or anything, but FIRST really needs to step up their game when it comes to the HOF. It's been like this for too long, and it's not fair to the teams for having to rotate people in and out of the displays, or to the students are stuck there.

Because honestly, in the what...3 days I was in the HOF every year, only about 20 people (including judges) really asked about what my team had done that got us the award, or asked for advice on what to do. The rest were just people getting pins. Which is why it'd be great if FIRST would go with the idea that I, and many others have had about combining HOF team's pits and their display into one place.

Anyone else agree or disagree?
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