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Re: Championship 2010 - Atlanta - Your Thoughts Please?

This year's Championship seemed to go pretty well for me. I only have a few suggestions:

Allow more team personnel on Wednesday night for Un-Crating and Robot Work. I'm grateful that we had the opportunity to do this, this year, but it'd be great if we could bring more people next year. I think a number between 8 and 10 would be ideal, and I'd say that 2 of those would have to be Adults.

Close the Pits later on Friday night. I believe the pits closed at 6pm on Friday, and we were a bit rushed because we were in the first match Saturday Morning.

Create some sort of easy way to get from the Competition Floor to the Stands that's open all weekend to people with the appropriate credentials. (Badges, Media Pass, Volunteers etc...) I never realized how much of a pain it was to get from the Dome floor to the stands in a hurry.

Also, I'd like to see FIRST institute 4 team alliances for the Championship. I don't think adding an extra round of selections would be so detrimental to the schedule that it'd be impossible, and I believe it would bring an entirely new dimension to Eliminations if an Alliance can switch a team out at random. This also allows alliance members to fix their robots and miss a match, without being penalized with not being able to play for the rest of the tournament.

*edit* I forgot to add that 10 Qualification matches are great! I noticed that it really led to accurate seeding and gave teams more than enough opportunity to prove themselves.
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