the good and the bad

[JamesBrown]

The Good:

Bumpers, I agree 100 percent it allowed this year to be played very defensivly without having to waste alot of weight making the bottom stonger and better protected and without making it look like battle bots.

Boston Regional: This regional was an awesome addition and was easily the best regional I have been too.

Periods: I loved the fact that you had to develop a strategy for both offense and Defense, It played more like a sporting game.

Refs and Queing (I think that is the word, the people who tell you to line up): At both of our regionals the Refs and Queing staff were excellent, they were more than happy to answer any questions you might have and were very efficient at keeping things moving along smoothly.

The Bad (note: overall I was extremely happy with this year,These things just need to be tweaked a little):

Scoring system: In theory I loved it, unfortunatly it wasn't reliable, I believe this was far more confusing to spectators thanto the drive team. HoweverI did like that you could refer to it for an appoximate score rather than having to pay attention to who was scoring while you were trying to drive. In the future if it can be refined it would be great.

Lack of a definitive rule for side goal intrusion: while this didn't effect us because we had the same head ref (Benji) at both of our events I have heard from friends on other teams that they were penalized at some events for things that were common at other events, This seems like the hardest thing to fix because FIRST tries hard already to keep things fair and there are so many different refs.