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Originally Posted by Katie_UPS
For those wanting Einstein in the middle:
That will delay finals even more. Taking down the curtains (I imagine) is not a five minute task. Also, it would take time to set up the field, as having it there the entire event will affect robot traffic to Curie and Archimedes. Also, the "awards" stage and field/tech tables will have no where to be. I understand why you guys want it to be more center, but its just not logistically sound.
I thoroughly enjoyed the event (but I was also team-less). I would comment that FIRST should note field awards ceremonies, as Curie's was still going on when they started the videos, and I'm sure many teams missed the Myth Busters.  |
I can agree with this 100%. I was upset i missed the video because i was finishing up awards on Curie. The field finals were projected to finish after 4PM, but because they didn't. I think the staff decided to start the event on time instead of waiting 15 minutes for the awards to pack up on Curie.
That was the only thing i disliked about the event, along with the obvious situation of stolen items (I'm still shocked about that).
I'll suggest this idea once again. It's a compromise about the "every team can come and play at CMP" vs "you should earn your way into CMP". is as folows.
Event Type: FIRST Championship Last Minute Qualifying Heat
Event Capacity: 32 Teams.
Registration Criteria: Open Registration, closes the Friday before Championship
Cost: $2,000. another $3500 if you qualify for Championships through this system, which must be paid on the spot once you qualify.
Location: Same Venue as the Championship, using the four Division fields
Dates: Tuesday/Wednesday the week of Championship. There will be two time slots, each team can only register for one per day. The two time slots are 8:45am - 12:15pm and 2:00pm - 5:30pm
Structure: Each team gets 3 qualification matches, 0 practice matches. after the qualification matches (16 matches, 1hr 36min on a 6 minute cycle). The top four teams will be chosen as alliance captions, Alliance selections will occur, and the elimination matches will be played.
Setup: Just the field/FMS, referee's/scorekeepers and field reset/2 queuing people, nothing else is really necessary. That stuff can be set up in preparation for Thursday.
Awards: The winning alliance along with a team that the Referee's feel is deserving of competing at the Championship Event will each be invited to the Championship later that week*. No banners, trophies or banners will be handed out.
*= if a backup robot is called to replace a robot on the winning alliance, there will be no "extra invite".
I think this would solve a lot of problems, if a team is willing to compete and wants to go bad enough, they would compete in the heats.
I really enjoyed the deans list ceremony, considering it was totally last minute. (FIRST only found out the Friday before Championships that the Secretary of Education would be attending for an hour.) Myself and a few others had to run around the pits Thursday giving teams flyers and telling them to come to the event.
Something from the Edwards Jones Dome Facts Webpage
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Originally Posted by Explore St. Louis Website
Incentive design features allow the Dome floor to be transformed easily from convention exhibition space to football field to concert venue. The first 14 rows of permanent seats are retractable as they fold back to provide a smooth wall appearance when the exhibit hall floor is being used for exhibits or meetings. A full section of seats is removable allowing exhibits to flow freely from America's Center's five exhibition halls directly into Hall 6, the Dome floor. Connecting all six halls creates 502,000 square feet of contiguous prime exhibit space.
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In other words, We're going to have a free-flow pits to field system in St. Louis, this is a HUGE plus