Einstein Field issues Handled correctly?

[Katie_UPS]

Originally Posted by sgreco

I see your point, but nobody wanted to see what was going on anyway with robots not moving, and basically illegitimate eliminations on Einstein. They could have finished the awards while the teams move, then transfer to Galileo once they didn't need the podium anymore. At this point, who cares if every spectator was able to get a good seat? It's better to have legitimate elimination rounds then to have everybody disappointed watching illegitimate ones.

Also, I'm not sure how the screens worked, but it was probably reasonably easy to get a feed from another field displayed on the screen at Einstein. That way, not everyone has to move.

I don't want to get in a back and forth, so this will be my last post (and we can PM if you'd like to continue conversation).

Finishing awards while teams move: drive teams? teams in the stands? That's pretty disrespectful to the teams winning awards and the speakers presenting them. No one feels too great about themselves when they're talking/being presented and the audience is too preoccupied with something else.

And teams not moving but the matches moving? You can't stop people from moving and I'm pretty certain 80% of the FIRSTers I know would want to move to actually see the robots.

I'm not saying I'm glad things turned out the way they did. I couldn't quite get excited about Einstein after the issues weren't fixed. I'm just saying that FIRST didn't have too many options and had legitimate reasons for not switching fields.

However, I wouldn't mind them presenting all the awards while field crews and FTAs switched all the FMS components of the fields (have one crew gut Einstein's FMS and another gut the most reliable field and then swap). I would gladly take a delay of any time span to fix the problem (and I'm sure you're thinking "well then we can just switch fields", but that's a hairier mess, in my opinion, than switching field elements).