2015 Lessons Learned: The Negative

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Carolyn_Grace

Every single Show Ready person I have met is a wonderful individual and great supporter of the program. They clearly love their jobs and the opportunity they have. I greatly enjoy talking to them, and even hanging out with them post-event.

None of that means that the end result, especially at the World Championship, is exempt from scrutiny.

As I said before: why is it that many events can be managed without Show Ready and have a better production overall? What are they doing to have success?

This thread is about lessons learned from the negative side. I do not believe the Show Ready experience at Champs was as great as it should have been this year. I believe something needs to be adapted in order to improve the current system that they use. I offered a possible solution.

I'd be curious which portions you felt were issues caused by SRE. The two big issues I witnessed were the various delays of things starting (Opening Ceremonies and Einstein, I skipped out for Closing because I needed to eat something that provided nutritional value to me) and the mess that was divisional finalist/winner medals.

In the second case, the SRE guy on Hopper was simply understaffed. He knew exactly what needed to happen but had nobody to help facilitate that. (It's how I ended up doing crowd control wearing a 125 shirt, so if you were on Hopper and got yelled at by some random person from 125, sorry. Was just trying to follow the instructions he'd given me, it was chaos) This wasn't a function of not understanding what it took to run an FRC event, it was just a lack of people. I'd chalk it up to growing pains.

The delays, idk what caused them.

Admittedly, I wasn't in the dome all that much due to my job having me over in the pits most of the time. So, I'm actually curious.