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Posted by nick237 at 03/18/2001 11:20 AM EST


Engineer on team #237, sie h2o bots, from Watertown high school ct and sieman co.


In Reply to: Contrary to popular belief...
Posted by Kevin Sevcik on 03/18/2001 1:25 AM EST:



Kevin. You left out a little information as to if you were inside the arena viewing the games live, or you were out side in the side building for three hours watching the games on a non working projection screen with no sound.
You also didnt mention if you drove three hours from 6am across three states to view the games and then be told "sorry" you have to wait because just like last year, we over booked the arena and didnt do anything to make things better this year.
And as for having people work behind the scenes who know what its like to scramble, then thats all the more reason to do some thing about it. Organization is the key to success, were not complaining were expressing our concernes.
Its hard to promot the excitement of the FIRST concept if you cant get in, I wonder how many people came to Ruttgers with the intent of sponsoring a team and were turned away for lack of space.
nick237


: It's very noble to talk about how FIRST needs more room there to let more spectators in. This is definitely a good goal. But do you people have any idea what goes into these regionals? How much work they are to setup? How hard all those FIRST Staff work? I guarantee you that the FIRST Saffters are generally nice people, but if you had to keep telling 500 people that they couldn't come in because the fire marshal would shut the place down, wouldn't you get a bit surly?

: As for moving the regional... I again ask, do you know how tough setting these things up is? In addition to planning the layout, logistics, etc for a new venue, there is also a new budget to work up, more sponsors to get, etc. Lemme tell you, you've gotta be really good to just run one of these things. Actually moving a venue in under a year would be a real feat. If the venue is changed next year, it's probably because FIRST started the work last year.

: Now, some of you may think this is blown a little out of proportion, but I'll only accept complaints from people who have actually volunteered or worked for FIRST and seen the behind-the-scenes scramble that is a regional.