Media at Nationals

[Carol]

I was a ref on Curie/Einstein, and the media did at times get in our way. So, what we ended up doing was just ignoring them and stepping in front of the camera if we needed to see the field. If you see a lot of shots on the videos of the back of people's heads, that probably why!

I was more worried about safety however. Their cables were easy to trip over, especially when you're running to catch up with a robot (refs were assigned to a particular robot and were supposed to follow it around the field. Some of those bots are fast!). And a lot of them were not wearing safety glasses. If the drivers have to wear glasses, and they are behind a screen, why wouldn't the media? They can get hit in the eye by a bolt flying from a bot too.

Then there was the cameraman who hit me in the head with his camera during the finals on Einstein......that's why, in the video, the scene suddenly jumps at a critical moment......