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Ok, I have a few things that came to me after nationals and I was waiting for the best time to mention them, I think this qualifies.
1.) Many people complained about the FRC confusions. My sloution is to try and keep the updates and the board up but to also have a live chat once a week so that there can be a discussion about the rules in question which will also allow for better understanding and explanation. This will hopefully cut down on the same question being asked multiple times over.
2.) I know that many people would like to see the playing field change, yes the carpeting is getting old. Not only would I like to see the surface change but also the shape. Rectangles are used for so many sports. It's kind of like when you play checkers, chess, and most other board games, they are all on square or rectangular boards. Then there's Chinese checkers. This game requires you to use a strategy that must be defensive in all directions and aggressive in 1 direction at all times. So even if carpet does stay around at least give us a change, if anything count it as something done for the strategy part of the teams(a field like this will also promote drive trains that will allow robots to change directions easily and quickly as well as cutting down on crowding the drivers especially if another coach were to be added back onto the field, see my #3). I think you guys can keep adding to the list of things that will change based on te shape of the playing feild. I realize that the rectangle is easy for most schools to accomodate but you can put other shapes inside a rectangle .
3.) Plenty of schools out there have college students working with them for whatever reason, they did FIRST in high school, it helps them in their major, it's a hobby, whatever the reason I'd like to see something added to give them more of a role during competitions. I've seen teams that alow the college students to help somewhat but they aren't necessarily given the respect or even the courtessy they deserve. Granted the coaches don't always get enough credit but as soon as soeone mentions that fact everyone jumps to thank them. College students go to school as much as the adults work and often put in just as much time and effort. Often the on field coach is an adult why not add a 2nd coach back as a college student?
4.) Beating a dead horse is not something I like to do so I'll let everyone else take care of the programmers and the animators not being as involved and I'll skip to the human player. As a former hp I can say it's a glorified position. There really isn't a whole lot to do. Throw a few balls on the field or something like that big whoop. It's just one more person trying to find roo mat the plexy glass to crowd out the drivers. Now before anyone flies off the handle, I don't want to get rid of the hps I want them to have a bigger roll, or maybe even have them in a location other than near the drivers, *ahem* maybe in the center of the field behind plexiglass *ahem.* Maybe have 2 hps, one high school student and one college student... My other idea is to have a pannel of judges, all the teams compeating judges the competitions performance. Now I know that many people will say no due to having favorites but think of it this wayif teams 47, 111 and 45 (I'm just picking teams that everyone can relate to) are all in a match and 45 is judging 47 then 47 will have to judge 111 see no judging of opposite teams. Put gracious professionalism to the test. Rate the other teams based on performance and ability, how well did their drive train work not how much do you like their team. Maybe it's a bit too naive but how else are we going to keep gracious professionalism in prospective for everyone? How else are we going to explain it to the rookies?
5.) My final point is one of money. Not rich teams versus poor teams but poor teams trying to get money to even compete. Location is a HUGE part of how well a team does financially. That's not to say that old fashioned hard work hasn't gotten any team anywhere. But going back to my previous examples of teams, those who start near a large corporation have a better chance of being around for lengthier periods of time. I don't ant this to come out as me being mad about anything what I am suggesting is getting some of the companies who go to FIRST looking to start teams, instead of FIRST telling them where there is a lack of a team tell them where there is a team lacking money. It seems to make more sense to me to make sure and keep what you have before you try to get more. The stronger your foundation the better off the building. Maybe set up something like the federal aide for college students. Fill out applications to get money for the teams ( if I'm not mistaken NASA already does this). Maybe with encouragement otehr large companies will do the same.
My inal wish is one that will most likely be discounted, well at least faster than the rest of my wishes. I'd like to see the possibility of a regional or something like that on the same weekend as nationals for the teams not fortunate enough to b at nationals. I knw that this will be seen as a push for more or even a split nationals, but I'm not looking for anything of the magnitude. Maybe even a few regionals so that those teams who are not lucky enough to get to have the glory and the extra week of competition can at least get the same chance to compete as many times.

yea, so as you can tell I was one of those kids who was taught to wish and dream big. But I really don't think the majority of what I said is unreasonable. Still, as often times this post will be read and forgotten in rush to read everything or even looked over because of the length. For those of you who actually read everything WOW! I'm impressed and I'm also sorry that this is so long.
The last thing I wanted to say was that Dr. Joe you are exactly right about the breakers. The impact reaction problem was one that 86 had to toy with quite a bit last year and it was a bit frustrating.
Time for me to shut up now and fall back into the abyss...
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