Suggestions about champs?

[KTBSPASonya858]

Originally Posted by opnickc

Compared to last year, food was excellent! I highly reccomend keeping the coupon system, it worked great. The walk to the pits was a bit far, but better than last year. My suggestion would be to keep everything the same, unless you can come up with a better idea for the pits.

How do you get those coupons?

[sgeorge]

I agree that the walk from the Pit Area to the Competition area was much too long. Maybe, as others have suggested, two or three of the pit crew could use the drive team tunnel.
The practice field was nice, but 4 quarter fields for autonomous mode testing would have been much more useful.
Did anyone else notice that the food prices increased between Thursday and Friday? That was annoying.

[Alex Golec]

This was my first year on my team and I enjoyed the championship event. My first suggestion would be to allow some non drive team members passes to be in the stadium to fix the robot if it had any minor problems - or, during the eliminations of each division or even just the Einstein matches have a mini-pit (for a toolbox or 2, spare parts) set up behind the fields so the team does not have to run back to get parts or other things. I stood behind the fields a few times and there is a TON of room there for a few mini-pits for the elims. its just there might be power supply problems or restrictions set by the georgia dome commitee that won't allow this. Thats about it for idea #1
On to #2- have a carpeted area or something so that programs could be practiced. it doesn't even need to be a field, just carpet. Teams could come in and use duct tape markers and practice programs. all that was availible at atlanta was the bit of carpet behind the hall of fame.
and my last suggestion (#3): the big escalator outside of entrance C became overcrowded many times - it broke a few times, causing a few minutes worth of delay (enough to miss your match). if there are any extra stairs or elevators out there to ease traffic, that would also be great.

Summary:
1)Mini-Pits in stadium for elims or Einstein
2)Carpeted area for programing practice
3)More routes from pits to stadium, if availible

Overall I think the championship event was fun and exciting, and the pits weren't too much of a problem (good execise?). I can't wait for next season!

_Alex

[tiffany34990]

it seems now there will always be a long walk from the pits to the stands cause of FIRST growing-- but yeah with more students allowed back with the bot if it is such a long walk is a good idea. I know our team doesn't have any radio-phone system to contact people back in the stands while on the way back that something is broken. Our driver and operators don't always know how to fix the bot--only two of them did which was good.

But with the food-- our team didn't use the coupons. I'm guessing that was for the packages and we didn't go to the team party the last one S.P.A.M. went to was the last one in Epcot so I can't compare. Our team though found that food court near the stadium, just a short walk and there was tons of fast food places to eat.

And reading y'alls posts-- i agree there should have been another practice field-- a half woud have been great-- i'm sure the hall of fame could have been placed somewhere else therefore another field could have been placed. the practice field was really helpful if u'r team could get time to use it.