IRI Feedback Thread

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Chris Fultz

Awards - several years ago we stopped doing robot awards. We found most teams were ready to go as soon as matches ended on Saturday, and didn't want to stay around for another hour of an awards ceremony. Also, by not having any pit judged awards, no students have to spend two days in the pits waiting for judges to come by - they can all be out enjoying the event.

Chris, while your reasons make a lot of sense, I do want to add an option we tried out at Blitz this year as a thought. We actually had students work with Judge Advisors as judges. It allowed students to get a view inside the sausage factory as it were. Most seemed to find it useful from the feedback I heard. Perhaps couple this with scheduled time slots for pit interviews and you could avoid the "having to stand around forever" issue.