Lesson Learned 2016 - The Negative

[Rombus]

Not trying to defend FIRST or anything, just really curious on these 2 comments:

Originally Posted by Carl C

I was disappointed to see that the Championship Chairman's Award was presented yet again after a long delay at a different part of the arena. If it truly is the most prestigious award in FIRST, I believe it deserves better treatment than that.

Long delay after the end of Einstein - yes I can agree to that, but it was on the main stage right behind the Einstein fields. Personally, to have all the top awards given out like that for each program along with the Founders Award felt like a proper treatment of the seriousness of the awards.

(BTW: Props to the crews/FTAs who did the tear down, the field this year was a pain in the butt to build and take apart, they made it look effortless to someone who's done it before. Of course it helps that they were all FTAs mostly )

Originally Posted by Metonym

Putting big signs saying what divisions was in what section of the pits would have been nice. I spent a good chunk of my Wednesday evening trying to figure this out so I would be ready to catch all my teams the next day.

There were signs hung up, maybe not the largest, but I could see them from the robot path. I wasn't there on Wednesday, so maybe they got added over night?


To add to the list:
1. The website is very hard to use, If it were not for links from TBA I doubt I would be able to find anything about the rankings or match info.

2. Championship conferences: these REALLY need to be recorded if possible, I missed out on just about everything i wanted to see since I was not there Wednesday, and had to make choices between ones in the same time frame.

3. People need to stop running in the pits! Every time the announcer shouted that i couldn't help but think of the escalator scene in MallRats.