Lessons learned 2005: The negative

[UCGL_Guy]

More concerns than anything else ---
1.Segways mixing with heavy pedestrian traffic - If FIRST is going to start promoting safety we must start looking at behaviors that cause accidents and I saw a couple of near misses with the segways.

2. Grinding in the pits - never saw it but heard it several times - Each division needs an area to do this kind of work in.

3. Robot traffic mixing with regular people traffic - caused a lot of congestion - needs to be a "robot only trail"

4. Use Einstein field again so teams can have more mathces / at $715 a match that is a little steep. Looked like to me there is enough space for 6 playing fields --- more mathces

5. Closing ceremonies were waaaaaay too long. I did like some of the flash they put into the finals. I did however get a nice nap in.

6. I wonder ---- could they set up a local radio broadcast of each field - so you could listen in the pit - you cannot hear the Pit admin announcements.

8. I agree on the penalty thing - the game should be designed so as to not have the possibilty of bot / human interaction. Other than that I love this game.

9. Again safety related - the announcers should exhibit safe behavior alos - jumping on the field elements is not a good example of this.

10. Hard hats --- Osha would have a field day writing this one up with all of the potential overhead projectiles for the field crew and players.


What I liked
1. Wednesday night unloading this is a must have and would not mind seeing this implemented in the regionals.

2. The building we were in --- keep this arrangement 100X better than last year's fiasco.

3. The police actually helped you out - still ticked about the ticket we got last year.

4. The Game --- this is the best in my six years

5. although the field was crowded I like the 3 on 3

Overall a very good year
congratulations to all.