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Re: 2010 Lesson Learned: The Negative

I'm not going to take long here, so I'll just echo the points mentioned in this thread that I agree with:

Control System. It's awful. I'm grateful that teams have the chance to work with some pretty cool equipment, but the Classmate should be all but scrapped, the FMS clearly hates mixing routers, and don't get me started on the cRio reboot times.

Dean's List. While my team never had the resources to focus on award-writing, I feel that the teams who do were slighted greatly by what can only be summed up as bad timing.

Inspections. That protruding bolt head deal caused us a match and about a half-hour of work over a half-inch of length. The sad part is, nothing would have gotten entangled anyway, since the bumpers extended much farther than the 1/4" each bolt added.

CMP cameras. I loved the overhead boom shots that they had. That doesn't make up for missing a shot of two/three robots hanging on the same tower. And what are they focusing on during this time? The drivers, a robot that's failing at attempting to score a ball repeatedly, the crowd, the concrete floor, the bird on the ceiling....

There are 5 weeks of regionals before Championships. I know they're a professional TV crew with busy schedules, but PLEASE make sure they attend one or two regionals as spectators to get a sense of what's important for that year's game. It's hard to explain to my boss or family why the crowd is going beserk while we're watching a flipped robot for 20-seconds.

Bumpers. Ditto to everyone in the thread.

Sound system (Buckeye-specific). OK, we go from way too loud (as in pants were shaking) last year, to barely audible this year? Is this some kind of joke, or did they not know how low the levels were this year? The music, during dance breaks, was alright. But my main gripe was with the voices. The MC went so silent at times that you could hear a pin drop from the pits. The crowd didn't seem to be as into the competition as previous years (though that's not entirely a sound problem, louder music can help).

Teams in queue lines were definitely grateful for not having 5-foot speakers/woofers next to them this season, though. I approve of that.
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