pic: Monty Illuminated

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by kazand

Actually, there are a few misunderstandings in this quote above:

• First, the organizers did not have direct control over the overhead lighting but the custodial staff did. Unfortunately, they had a tendency to misunderstand the cues for turning on and off the lights. No one told them to shut off the lights during the "dance sequence / robot fix" sequence - they merely misunderstood. To imply that we were doing anything other than to get the lights turned back on quickly during the fixing of the robot would be a great disservice to our efforts.

• Second, Monty Madness was not really behind schedule despite some of the posts to the contrary. The schedule was the one printed in the program, not the match listing, and it was designed to be extremely "buffered" with quite a bit of leeway. Alliance Selection was designed to be the pivot point of the schedule and was the target all day long. In fact, we ended Alliance Selection within just a few minutes of the stated times on the agenda. We would have been a half hour ahead of schedule, but four teams hadn't arrived yet when the matches were supposed to begin early in the morning. But since we had the agenda buffer, this delay didn't really impact us. The end of the day went long due to a longer than expected set of elimination matches. Perhaps we should have listed the end time as later to account for the competitiveness of the matches and the use of time outs.

By the way, the three light shows took only a total of eight minutes.

Thanks for the clarificaton. Again I don't mean to be a jerk, but instead looking for areas of improvement. I love MM, I only want it to be the best off-season out there. The times I asked/heard about the schedule I always heard that we were behind schedule, and was basing my judement on that.

Again, the lighting was great and cool, but I just wanted to point out some issues I found with it. While the shows combined only took 8 minutes, the additional downtime of getting people away and then brining the lights back up was my only complaint and I should have noted that more in the origional post.

Again, this is the best off season in the land and I love this off season, I only want the best for it, I'm not trying to smash it for anything. For these small issues I found that it had no technical glitches, great crowd controll, and some great matches.