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Re: Dear GDC,

Dear John,

It's been done before. Wireless microphones were circulated about the audience and people could ask questions. The result was:

1. An extra hour that people had to sit through before they could get their kits.
2. No one had a chance to read the rules yet so many questions were irrelevant.
3. The GDC was forced to come up with answers "on the spot" without having time to discuss or research and many "quick" answers were eventually overturned in subsequent updates. BTW, this caused a LOT of hard feelings on the part of the teams, i.e. "But Woody Said..."

There was one year that it was already dark before I got out of there with my teams KOP.

I am the last person in the world to say that FIRST does nothing wrong. However, the kickoff in its present format has much improved over the 15 years that I have been doing this.

JMHO...

Mike
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RI, South Florida Regional, 2012 - 2013

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