Interview room & judging panel (rookie questions)

[Gary Dillard]

Originally Posted by Lisa Perez

If, for instance, our team's assigned interview time conflicts with a match (our Chairman's interview team consists of two drive team members), would FIRST reschedule it? Or would it be in our best interest to have "understudies" to fill in for the interview if such a conflict occurs?

I think you can pretty much count on having a conflict, based on the short time in between matches and the length of the presentation. I would recommend an understudy - we had one just in case the timing didn't work out. On the schedule our previous match was at 10:08 and our interview was at 10:30, but the match didn't finish until 10:25 and the presentation before us got done at 10:20. The judges said we could wait until 10:30, but if the schedule had been tight we had someone ready. Also, the interview room was (thankfully) only around the corner about 100 feet from the side of the field where we were competing so as soon as the buzzer went off our driver left the field and ran to the interview.