[MarcD79]

Good evening everybody! You might not recognize the name, but you will recognize the face. I am Mr. Davis who has enthusiastically volunteered every year in the setup & take down of the scrimmage fields. I had the honor of official Field Supervisor & to mentor FIRST FTA Frank Merrick. First of all I want to thank everybody involved with help in scoring, field reset, judging, DJ sound, webcasting & anyone else who was directly involved. It is a very energy draining, but greatly rewarding event to be involved in. Now to an answer for how the rounds went. We obviously had to rethink how to reset the field, count scores & get the next round of robots on the field in a quick manor. We changed the sequence around probably 4 times until we obtained the smoothest transition & eliminated round-to-round turn-around from 9 minutes to around 5.5 minutes. I can personally say that having the payload specialist be the only one to load the robot from his/hers own station was the best solution. There was confusion as to when they could obtain those moon rocks. In the end the solution was to bring all bins on the field, fill them & return to each station. I'm sure FIRST will make some changes.
D.C. is waiting for us!!!