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Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved
At the 2007 Championship event, tell us what needs improvement before next years Championship's in Atlanta, April 16-19, 2008.
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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved
The weather needs to be better.
And my team needs to qualify. |
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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved
1.) Team wrap-party. Lets not kid ourselves guys, the awards/finals WILL NEVER END AT 6PM. Face it. Schedule it for 7pm when it always gets done by, and have the guests lined up.
2.) Was it just me or were there a lot less people than previous years? 3.) VEX Opening Ceremonies at noon. |
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Since I only watched the webcast, the only thing I could think of to improve would be to increase the capabilities of the webcast director. Apparently during finals on Newton (I was watching Galileo) they trotted out split-screen so that both autonomouses could be viewed close-up. Keep working on that so that it is available to all fields and regionals, and that'd be great. Too many times I missed something exciting on one end of the field when the webcast was centered on another exciting thing. Otherwise, the webcast was pretty good. |
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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved
In the HOF I would like to see the bios of the Woodie Flowers Award winners displayed so we can hear thier stories.
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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved
At this years FRC championship it seemed like there were things missing, Such as those sweet hats they give to the seeded alliances, this year they had a first hat with duct tape on them. Also, the confeti they had last year? gone, I know that the 3 years i have been there there has been more of a show with Dave Verbruggie (sorry if i slaughtered his name). The championship was a little disappointing this year but nonetheless the most fun I've ever had!
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I was very disappointed in the few thousand people that got up and left the dome following the finals last match Saturday night. That was disrespectful of the teams that competed and had not yet received their trophy's and very disrespectful of the 37 teams competing for the Chairmans award. These people were making a lot of noise while they exited and could easily be heard in the stands during the ceremony. Perhaps First should have mentioned not to leave following the last match but most everyone should have known this. There was only an additional 15 minutes of awards following the finals last match
The individual screens on each field showing the video of the game and the scores are very difficult to read the team numbers and scores. Perhaps a little more info here? While the weather was not perfect, I saw hundreds of people sunning themselves, playing Frisbee and enjoying themselves in the area between the pits and the dome all 3 days when it reached the low 70's each day. Yes the mornings were chilly but there was no rain until after the awards ceremony Saturday night. Quote:
Dave Last edited by dangerousdave : 16-04-2007 at 09:26. |
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I too only watched via the webcast, and was disappointed at the image quality, to the point where I could not read the team numbers most of the time - everything looked like team 1888. If there was a possibility of a higher quality feed - I have plenty of bandwidth - that would've been nice. I second the idea of starting Vex a bit later On the match results screen, it would've been nice to have the match numbers instead of just the time. It would also have been nice if the schedule was posted somewhere. What was good will be posted elsewhere. Don |
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...which reminds me: It would be really nice to have the match schedules posted in such a way that we don't have to pester poor dangerousdave all friday to get our team's schedule. If you're going to have a webcast, the schedules should be online. Another thing: The ads on the non-galileo fields were kind of annoying. They were like someone else channel surfing during a show you want to watch. You're never sure if they're going to get back to the field in time to catch the start of the match. The ads during lunch and breaks were fine and pretty interesting because they weren't obscuring something you wanted to watch. Potential solution: keep the ads, but have a little picture-in-picture in the corner showing the current status of the field so that people don't freak out. Last edited by Bongle : 15-04-2007 at 13:23. |
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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved
I loved the widescreen on Einstein and the driver cams were a very nice touch.
Something I would change however would be some way to try and keep teams in the stands after the competition is over to watch the chairman's award presentation. This is the most prestigous award in FIRST and should be recognized as so, and not just something that can be skipped so we can all go eat some noodles and cake... Also, I'm sure this has been said (I haven't read the whole topic yet), but the numbers were going the wrong way on the rack on Einstein. One last thing, it was rediculous on Curie, waiting for everyone's alliance captains to get there, teams should be prepared. |
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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved
I agree that it needs to be emphasized, SEVERAL times, during finals/awards that the Chairman's Award will be announced after the Champions receive their awards and that ALL teams should remain seated until after that time. I know that when our team was vying for the award in 2004 we did notice, with disappointement, that so many were leaving. The noise takes away from the moment.
Grascious Professionalism dictates, I would think, that all teams stay to honor the winners of our most prestigious award. The lack of confetti for the Chairman's Award really disappointed us - the whole confetti/balloons spectacle really emphasized the importance of winning this event (congrats MOE - well deserved!) I also find it troublesome that so many people come and go from their seats during speeches - making noise and blocking views. Perhaps "ushers" could be instructed to allow people to enter the stands only during applause and other "breaks", which I think is just common courtesy at any public assembly, unless an emergency arises. Finally, we were very frustrated by not being allowed to bring in our "signs on a stick" and then finding all these teams around us with "signs on a stick". But, overall, considering the vast number of people and things going on, its a well organized event. |
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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved
-moved from other thread-
I vote for more dancing. Honestly, watching that webcast, we need to dance more. The people in the stands dancing looked to be obsurcing veiws as well, not that this was a big deal as they looked to only standup at the breaks. Ok in all honestly I do meen that, at SVR and Davis there were areas for dancing team-members, there should be one per divison at championships to. However, space in the dome makes this unlikely, but dancing allows the teams that arn't on the feild to still participate, move around, jump up and down, etc. allows them to keep the adrenaline going. I think that if this was in place, the crowd might be even more responsive. *shrug* just my two bits. I don't even know if non-crazy-california regionals have alot of dancing. |
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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved
the only thing that I had major problems with, was poor judging. For example, while in the semi-finals on curie their was a lot of commotion near the rack and 1114's arm was broken, we only got a 10-point penalty. Later on Einstein 71 got knocked over and the refs declared a red card.
I have seen issues similar to this one and would just like some clarification on the topic. |
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