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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved
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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved
-Opening Ceremonies: I understand that they want everyone on Einstein for opening ceremonies, but it would be nice if they could put them on the Newton and Archimedes screens so those of us that are watching the team laptops and jackets can see what's going on, instead of trying to listen to the terrible reverb
-Chairman's: I would prefer that there be more celebration. I understand the problems with confetti, but what about something like dropping balloons (I think they did this on 03), or at least some small pyrotechnics or something? -Chairman's Honorable Mention: It's been said. We like to know where we stand compared to the winners (Congrats MOE 365) -Match pairings: Random please. No more of this A B C categorizing. If the official manual specifies random partners, we expect random partners. -Awards: Here's one I haven't seen yet. While the concept of showing video of each team's robots as they received the awards was nice, they picked probably the WORST video clips I could've imagined. Dropped tubes, showing other team's robots, it made people focus on something useless that was playing on the screen. -Free Tube Announcement: Honestly, I missed this announcement, but I was wondering what the commotion was about. Agreed with the above, please wait until AFTER Chairman's -DQ's: I believe this is an issue with the scoring software not being able to do this, but for the two red cards that were handed out, I would've liked to have seen the actual match scores. I don't believe either call actually made a difference, but I would've liked to have known who won each match, regardless. Last edited by Nuttyman54 : 16-04-2007 at 01:21. |
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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved
From a Game Announcer standpoint (and I know there's a lot more of you then there are of us) I didn't like that the refs showed the number that corresponded with the amount of the lift, and even worse the score announcer announced it to the crowd (nothing against Don Knight, who's an amazing announcer, it just irked me). I understand the refs need to communicate, but they could just walk over and tell the other ref instead of broadcasting it.
I know from past experiences (3 regionals this year) that during elims the crowd is on the edge of their seat, and if you can build that suspense it really helps the excitement. The crowd can obviously tell who won on the rack just by looking at it, unless the ringers are really scattered that the quick math is almost impossible to tell. The thing they DON'T know, is whether the robots got the 15, or 30 point bonus, which in many cases decides the match. So by announcing what the bonus was, it totally defeats the purpose of the score slide. Granted you may not know the exact numbers...but you could pretty much figure it out. I think they should've kept it a secret until the slide is projected. Sorry about the rant, it's just my 2% of a dollar. |
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Since consistency in complaints does indicate the seriousness of the issue, I am going to put in my part. The Chairman competitors would really like to know where they stand. The Honorable mention really did that. We too did not get any post evaluation documents indicating where we were weak or where we were strong. We did not even know there were going to be no honorable mentions. We were kind of stunned but we will get over it. Thats all I want to chime in on. Thanks
PS does anyone know why there is no honorable mentions any more? |
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Issues
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-My team only had 1 judge stop by our pit. I know there job is hard but I don't know how awards are given out fairly if they don't talk to our students and see our robot. -I'd like it if sundial could work in our pit. I know they fixed it but we couldn't get a signal from our pit. -Round schedule shouldn't have teams ever seeing each other but they did. -They sped through the awards and didn't give them much value. |
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Not having been in the stands for much of the competition I don't know how things went out there, but I do agree that the algorithm really hurt a lot of teams. Just an example, team 316 was the second seed alliance at FLR this year, a well-deserved spot. Then at Championship they didn't win a single match and came in dead last. I might not know the whole story there, but that seemed more than a little unfair.
There were also 86 teams in the division. There should be no need for any team to play with or against another team twice. As it was I think we played with 1657 twice and against them once, against 49 twice, with 1885 twice, and with 1230 once and against them once. There may even be more that I'm missing. That's four other teams that we should have been able to see in our matches. |
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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved
The only way to avoid teams leaving early during the awards is to somehow redo the schedule so that the awards end earlier. Pushing flights later into the evening becomes a travel headache. It is also difficult to begin matches on Thursday because tech-inspection takes a full day for 340 robots.
Some suggestions that would affect the competition very little:
Just some thoughts after experiencing 8 championships. |
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At no point shall anyone bash a team for being 1st seed, that is totally wrong and i am surprised this is coming from a MENTOR. Hiding it in white is childish and also not smart at all. Also on the topic of 48 and 1114, if you're not on either teams, what right do you have to worry about it? Im sure you don't know all the logistics of what went down, which you stated in your post, once again PM a person on the team and keep it private. $.02, wish i was worth more. |
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Our team is small and didn't use many seats and generally only when we were competing. Once we sat down to the protest of a parent holding 50 seats. Later we tried to sit about 5 people down for one match under the protest of an EXTREMELY boorish and rude middle aged man wearing a bright orange shirt that was holding seats for a whole team that never showed up anytime we were around. (Newton) I post this with great hesitation but at some point I think it excessive displays of rudeness requires recognition. If we can't get this problem fixed then maybe we need to go to assigned seating based on a lottery for a fixed number of seats per team. If we can't start being nice to one another this is where is could wind up. Everyone, PLEASE, PLEASE, work on developing a plan and communicating it to everyone traveling with a team, including friends and family. |
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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved
Hey,
I was just wondering since i heard no offical mention of where the championships will be held next year. Does anybody know of the offical location of the 2008 Championships will be held at. Thanks for your time, -Cory |
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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved
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The should have had moderators on the practice fields too. We had serious issues testing autonomous codes because we needed 1/2 the field. There were seldom times where 4 or 5 teams were not out at the same time. On the field with the field controls, the controls were never used since there was nobody to coordinate it. I felt like this was still an FRC event with a Vex competition squeezed in the middle. They should try to coordinate this as 3 major events together. How about the openning ceremony being done for all 3 events together before any begin. Also, the lack of qualifying matches was explained as a way to not have Vex intefere with FRC on Saturday. This reinforces that FRC is king and Vex/LEGO must bend around FRC. One last odditiy (not exactly a complaint)...why does FRC do alliance selections 1-8 in the first round then 8-1 in the second round and FVC does 1-8 in both rounds? All in all, I had a great time, and I know that the Vex crew does a tremendous amount to put in this event. I just think some improvements can make it as special of an event as the FRC Championship. |
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Re: Championship 2007 - Atlanta - What Needs To Be Improved
Concerning the post by FreedomForce at 1:12AM EDT April 16.
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