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Re: A few suggestions...
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As for #5, That's another thing FIRST did this year. Even numbered teams qualified first. Then people with a certain number of points, then people with a lower number of points and then they let anyone else who wanted to sign up, sign up (just because they didn't have enough teams the first two times around). And for #7 - yeah, I definitely agree. Trying to get hotel reservations and, mostly, plane tickets with only a few weeks notice would not be fun. Our team was lucky enough to sign up when they let whoever wanted to go sign up. But if we hadn't done that, we would have found out that we were going a month before Nationals (for winning a technical award) - and a month is a decent amount of time compared to some teams! A few more things (some echoing what others have said): At both regionals and Nationals, have veteren teams play with rookies more often, and mix up the teams a little more! I know at our regional we played with some of the same teams three times during quals. I think weight should be left the same or even lowered (make the bots lighter). That would be interesting Keep the size the same. Up the amount you can spend at Digikey. Let teams use whatever springs they want (ok, maybe have restrictions on what kind of springs can be used, but give more freedom than just what comes in the kit). And make sure the same rules are followed by all of the inspectors at competitions (Don't tell teams at regionals that it is OK to use tape to cover up nuts/bolts that are sticking out - especially if it's electrical tape that won't really cover any sharp edges ... The checklist even says "electrical tape is used only as an insulator"!!) Yeah. When that team gets to Nationals with thier tape-coved bolts ... they won't be too happy when the inspectors there say "You need to take that tape off - and file down those bolts by hand." (even though that's what should have been done in the first place!). ![]() Ok, that's my $.02!! - Katie |
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