You Cannot Graciously Accept

[ChuckDickerson]

Originally Posted by boiler

Speaking of rituals that get annoying, I have had several visitors mention to me that they tire of introducing each team before each match, through quals & elims. They complain that it is repetitive, redundant, brings down the level of action, and is redundant. Any thoughts?

I tend to agree. After parsing the video from Bayou I thought it was very repetitive to make a full introduction of all the teams at the beginning of every match. Every match started with "Let's meet the teams..." followed by the full introduction of the same 6 teams we all saw 20 or 30 minutes ago in another match. Often the introductions took as much time as the actual match. I think they should fully introduce the teams with sponsors, schools, etc. in the opening ceremony on Friday morning and then just briefly say the team numbers before each match as in "On the red alliance we have teams A, B, C and on the blue alliance we have X, Y, Z." This would speed things up quite a bit and we could probably get at least 2 or 3 more matches in per team. I would rather play more matches than hear our team number over and over. It would also keep things moving along for the spectators and might make things more viewer friendly.