2015 Lessons Learned: The Negative

[evanperryg]

1) Everything that was wrong with AA is right in this game, and everything that was right in AA is wrong is this game. I think FIRST underestimated teams' ability to make can pullers, and they overestimated teams' ability to make cooperative autonomous modes. I think some facets of RR came out of an overreaction to how last year's game was played.
2) moving to the other side of the stadium for closing ceremonies took away from the significance of the ceremony. Many people didn't get to see the Einstein finalists and winners receive their award, and people were already leaving as the championship chairman's award winner was announced.
3) the paper airplanes need to end. They are nothing more than an irritation and a mess. They get stuck in the robots. They hit the people on the floor. They encourage immature, wasteful behavior, which is pretty ironic for a recycling-themed game.
4) take the money used to get the DJ and use it to hire the PNW media people.