Traverse City Opinions?

[raffi383]

Originally Posted by GGCO

I did notice something really annoying at the beginning of the first day though. There were bouncers at the doors of the pit making sure that everyone who was let in had saftey glasses. Well, my team left our saftey glasses in the pits, and couldn't get a student in there because of the bouncers. Therefore we were running around for 20 minutes trying to borrow glasses from other teams, but many were having the same problems as us. At the time I was furious, but in retrospect I give the volunteers kudos for making sure that everyone was safe!

The "bouncer" you mention was a VOLUNTEER from our team that spent two days sitting at the entrance of the pits trying to keep you safe. Everyone knows the rules. YOU MUST WEAR SAFETY GLASSES IN THE PITS.

How were your safety glasses LEFT in the pits? Did you walk out of the pits NOT wearing your glasses? Whose fault was it that YOU didn't have YOUR glasses? The volunteers or YOURS?

I'm glad in the end that you realized that it was not the volunteer's fault that you didn't have your glasses.

As far as the TC event went, I thought it was fine. Music wasn't too loud, lots of seating, and easy to get from the pits to the field. The technical difficulties will probably be sorted out by next week.

Raffi

[Kimmeh]

One of our mentors volunteered and ended up scoring. He told us that there are six, one for each robot. Each one has a electronic tally card like thing. Each time they see a ball go in, they make a note/hit a button. (I'm assuming this is how they manage to post scores during matches.) Once the match is over they go over to their robot and count the balls. If their numbers are off, then they have to talk to a ref. I'm not sure what the refs do if the numbers are off.

On an amusing side note, I've got a video of our mentor swiffering the floor.

[Phreadumb]

I enjoyed the Traverse City District Event for the most part. We won many of our seeding matches and made it all the way to the finals. I would like to thank 903 and 1918 for alliance selection, you guys were great! Wish we would have won a few more awards though, it would have certainly helped with state rank. See you all at GVSU.

[J-Brock]

I loved it,
the stands were elevated for good views as well as tons of seating.
it was really fun and the teams there were great.

[Gerdee]

Traverse City was my second fav. comp. because of the fact it was big and our allience 904 and 2188 were awesome but we lost in the finals to B.O.B. and i dont remember the other 2 teams with him but htey were good

[Evan Almighty]

I didnt go to TC but i heard it was okay. State has the best hotel yet and it is the best competition because there is 64 teams. I joined late as a human player or else i what of been at TC.

[IceStorm]

Overall I think that the venue was a good fit. I liked the way you entered the field on one end and left the field on the other and there really didn't seem to be too much issue with robot and visitor traffic interfering too much.

If I had to say 1 thing I did not like about the event was the Pits. They were not very evenly setup. I know that were not always going to get the full 10x10 but it would be nice if they were more even in size. There were some teams that almost seemed like they had 1.5 times more space than others. Since we came into the venue with a robot that still needed alot of work to be done to it and not just the basic maint. tasks we were constantly tripping over one another in the pits.

Other than the Pit issue I think everything went well there and think it would be a good fit again for another event just as long as they do better about evening out pit space.