2015 Lessons Learned: The Positive

[Jared Russell]

• 8 alliance Einstein was awesome.
• It was cool to see some very effective robots from outside of North America throughout the event and on Einstein.
• The game presented some interesting technical challenges during design and build.
• Great diversity in robot design this year owing to liberal sizing rules.
• The rules were for the most part very well written and there were few ambiguities compared to other recent seasons.
• The conference portion of the Championship event had some really interesting talks and I think many teams found it useful.
• Using Qualifying Average as the first order sort seemed to work well at seeding teams according to their ability, as long as the number of matches was sufficient.
• Despite the number of teams and general level of crowding, the volunteer staff was able to adjust on the fly to fix traffic jams and chokepoints, and helped to cope with the scale of the event over the course of the weekend.