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Re: Lessons Learned - The Negative

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Originally Posted by Mr MOE View Post
* No opening ceremonies video on the DaVinci Field side of the dome. I know why it was done (to get everyone to come to the other side). However, for those teams that got up early to secure seats, team members needed to stay in the seats and could not see the opening ceremonies.
This is a big one for me. Our team was on Archimedes this year, and elected to stay in our seats for opening ceremonies, to ensure we would be able to keep them. There was no audio or video being broadcast to our side of dome. Our team was actually completely unaware that we had won the website award. I found out from a congratulations email that was sent to me on my Blackberry by someone who was watching at home!

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Originally Posted by JackN View Post
1) Dear FIRST can you please post the order by which teams were picked on the website so someone who didnt attend the event can figure out how picking went. Which of these is the correct order and how am I supposed to know, 1279 834 1391, 1391 1279 834, 1391 834 1279, or 834 1279 1391. I remember in 05 and 06 the location of teams in driver stations didn't change during eliminations, I would love to see this return.
This is a huge pet peeve of mine. For the purposes of accurate record keeping, please list the alliances in the order that they were picked.
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