CHS Platter - The Real CHSy Champs

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Originally Posted by protoserge

Just to be crystal clear here, are you contrasting previous events (negatives) with the DCMP (positives)?

Also, I tried to get your team field carpet, but the students that came to the field left before the carpet was available. We ended up throwing all of the carpet out.

Yes, I am comparing the great job at DCMP to other efforts.

I don't have very many face-to-face interactions with volunteers either; the only major interaction I have is with the closest RI with a pen to sign off our bag and tag form. Our drive team and pit crew have the most facetime with the head referee, FTA, queuing, RIs, SAs, and judges. I just take the feedback they give me and make sure it makes the form. There is one instance this year where I had to step in during an event and try to recover a very bad interaction between a student following the rules and a volunteer abandoning common human behavior, but that's it, really. Despite my very public-esque presence on the internet, I try to be a hard person for anyone not on 422 to find at events on purpose. I'm usually just taking physical or mental notes in a corner.

With regards to the carpet, I don't know how the students expected to take it home, frankly. We nailed down our equipment setup after our packing methods imploded at 2014 Champs. Everything is designed to fit in the back of a long truck bed or 9' cargo van, with minuscule remaining space. We would have loved to have it but they sorta sprung the idea on me after they took it to you! We've tried to make a collective team effort to think farther than 5 feet in front of us but the cracks can still show.

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I'd also be remiss if I didn't congratulate the two EI winners whose victories were well earned. 540 and 1629 have been and will continue to lock down whatever awards they put their minds to.

It's important to recognize 122 and 401 for having incredible rebound seasons after probably wanting to run their 2015 robot over with a boat on dry land like we did. Both of those programs have great bones in them and it's great that the district system helped them book a ticket to St Louis. It's pretty criminal 401 didn't win a technical award this year, too.