[Nawaid Ladak]

allright, let me get to it

1. G14 /// please FIRST, Never again try to cut a teams sucess short. We honestly could have seen a High Score placed this weekend, but you put the best teams on leashes that didn't allow them to perform at full capasity, and make us say... wow

2. Bumper Rules/Rober Wheels etc... Xerox Creativity Award. /// 7, Helux, Power Dumper, Shooter, These were the four designs that i saw most of this weekend. FIRST. please stop making the award about the sponcor (Xerox...copies) and more about what it stands for.... Creativity, bending the envolope, thinking outside the box. Seriously, a robot with a Gyroscope won XCA this year at CMPl.... thast sad

3. Districts /// Ovbiously we saw that this is something that either, FIRST needs to limit, or they need to make everything a district next year. There is no doubt in my mind that the #1 reason there were four MI robots in the finals on Einstein was because of the experance their drivers had accumulated by going to their respective events. Just to give an example, here are the match counts for the four MI teams that were on einstein (these numbers are after championships)

217: 85 Matches Played
67: 87 Matches Played
247: 82 Matches Played
68: 79 Matches Played

here are the totals for the other two teams that were on Einstein

111: 46 Matches Played
971: 32 Matches Played

I see a huge discrpeency there, Im srue you see it as well. Districts either need to be eliminated, or FIRST needs to start making Multi-Regionals affordable for everyone else

4. The Game /// Give the audunce something to cheer about, Someone was right when they said the stands were very quiet during Einstein Finals.

5. Volunteers and Cowd Control /// During Einstein Matches. If your a Volunteer and you were assigned to be on the floor for any of the divisions, I don't see why your not allowed to view the Finals matches from the floor of the GA Dome on the Archimedes/Curie side of the field. The volunteers this year would kick off Voluntters while keeping kids/mentors from other teams (Not the teams on Einstein or the Backups) would be sitting right there. Give volunteers some appreation and let them watch the matches from there instead of watching them from the bleeder seats because they were busy helping out on their respective possision and couldn't get good seats.

6. Sustaining before Growing /// FIRST keeps on telling us to grow teams. What they don't realize is that 40% of all FIRST teams eventually fold. Instead of trying to create mroe teams, try sustaining and satisfying the wants and needs of the teams you already have, try to bring back already folded teams, and THEN try to grow from there

7. Founders Award...NI vs IFI, Patent /// Please FIRST, don't start this mess, don't start a war, because honestly, that what it looks like your trying to do. first you debrand VEX in favor of NXT, and then you give a company thats been helping out with FLL since 2003, instead of a company thats been helping the orginization and it's teams for much longer in FRC.... and now witht he patent, I think FIRST is asking for it.

8. Awards/Finals. If my memory serves me correct. the finals were supposed to end at 6, Why was i sitting in the dome at 6:15 waiting for Finals match 2.... when the MINIMUM number of matches had been played? FIRST needs to work on time management, they give us six weeks to build a robot and fix it windws after (at least up intil last year,) you should be held to the same standards when you give yourself 2 hours to complete the Fnals on Enstein. on a side note, Teams, please don't call timeouts on Einstein, Dean Speaking is your timeout.