Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved

[Joe Matt]

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.

[Bongle]

Originally Posted by Joe Matt

2.) Was it just me or were there a lot less people than previous years?

There were just as many FRC teams as 2006, so perhaps teams could afford to bring fewer people this year. A cyclic downturn in sponsorship revenues, perhaps? Another possibility is that your own pit/field combination gave you routes that exposed you to less people. Someone walking from the furthest end of the pit to the farthest field will think there's a lot more people than someone walking from the near side to the near field.

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.

[Koko Ed]

In the HOF I would like to see the bios of the Woodie Flowers Award winners displayed so we can hear thier stories.

[Philimator]

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!

[Bongle]

Originally Posted by Philimator

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!

The confetti last year was super-annoying because the balloons it was stored in obscured most of the field for some people in the upper level. I'm happy to hear it is gone. The whole time I was thinking "those balloons had better be REALLY important, because I can't see the near goal or half the field".

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Bongle

they trotted out split-screen so that both autonomouses could be viewed close-up. <snip> Otherwise, the webcast was pretty good.

[OffTopic] What's the plural of autonomous? Autonomi?[/OffTopic]

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