FIRST Who's Who for Rookies

[mesamb1]

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I like the new FIRST Competition Event chart. If you add the description when you show the chart, it basically is the FIRST flow chart. For any rookie who does have a Event management question pit admin would be able to point them to the correct person, and that is the only column your chart leaves out.
What do you think about putting a tab under pit administration for specialist. From my experience, pit admin is the best place to go to find a volunteer specialist who can help with a problem specific to your robot(or they can announce it to find another team with a helpful mentor).

P.S.
I generally recommend to rookies to use Pit admin as a omnibudsman of sorts. Even the rookies I have seen at pit admin are able to point you on the right flow chart path.

[EricH]

Mark, there's an IFI support reference in the middle column of that decision authority matrix. Might want to check on that.

Also, if you need it, a couple years back I started a reminder thread for who gets talked to for what at an event and how to identify them: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...?postid=707437

[mesamb1]

Mark was saying it is an older FRC flow chart, probably from when ifi was at regionals

[Mark McLeod]

Yea, that one is from 2006, but I only meant the concept of a single sheet with the appropriate names for a local event.
There's stuff on it that Teams won't care about, like AV & catering, that I'd remove.

Descriptions are a good idea and where they're each likely to be found.
Maybe I'll call it the Field Guide to FRC Personnel. I could even add photos for repeat key volunteers at our local Regional.

[Gary Dillard]

Not sure why this is titled "Who's Who for Rookies", it could be called "Who's Who for Everybody". I bet a majority (or a very large minority) of the people at the competition don't understand who to go to.

If it doesn't make it too busy, I think a visual descriptor would help for each one; knowing you need to talk to the FTA doesn't help if you can't pick them out of the crowd (once you get close you can read their shirt). Something along the lines of (I think I have these right):

FTA: Dark Blue Denim Jacket
LRI: Black Mesh Vest (& Neon Yellow Hat)
Head Referee: Yellow Referee Jersey
Safety Advisor: Dark Green Collared Shirt
Event Manager: Black Collared Shirt
Judges: Royal Blue Collared Shirt
Regional Director: Light Blue Denim Collared Shirt?