2012 Lessons Learned:The Negative

[rees2001]

1. There needs to be a safer setup for teams entering the building at the start of the day. I know this has been discussed but it happens at most events. There should be a way to keep people from rushing the doors and running to the seats. If my team get there at 6AM I should get better seats than the team that shows up just before the doors open and shoves their way to the front. You have seating charts for the arenas, let teams designate where they want to be and avoid the unsafe behaviors. Maybe you should position a judge or 2 by the doorway. That may change some behaviors.

2. There needs to be a better way to have teams bring their stuff into the pits. Again, it was a mad rush of people to get their stuff to their pits so they could get to work as soon as possible.

3. Fewer teams at Champs. There were just way too many teams there.

4. Fix the match listings. I may be the only person to say this but our match listings were unfair. We had to play 7 of the top 15 team in our division and got the pleasure of playing with 7 of the bottom 20. We finished 3 - 6 and placed in 36th place, only because of the co-op bridge. Our last match was against 2 teams that ended up on Einstein (548 and 118, and our partners finished in 74th & 90th).

5. Video in the pits at champs. It is a long walk to get to the field and too often our pit crew couldn’t watch matches.