New Poll! (9)

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Posted by Raul at 03/15/2001 9:10 AM EST


Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling HS and Motorola.


In Reply to: New Poll
Posted by PollMaster on 03/14/2001 7:23 PM EST:



It is a shame to have so many teams turned away without a chance to compete with non-random alliances. I would rather have one less seeding match or run later on each day. Or give up a practice round since these are very disorganized anyway.

Raul

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Posted by colleen - T190 at 03/15/2001 2:00 PM EST


Engineer on team #190, Gompei, from Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science and WPI.


In Reply to: New Poll
Posted by Raul on 03/15/2001 9:10 AM EST:



Adding another set of alliances competing would add only a 1/2hour-hour of time to Saturday..

Think of how long we sit after the competition waiting for it to get dark so we can do awards..

Tack it on their.. take an hour off the party..

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Posted by bill whitley at 03/15/2001 4:09 PM EST


Student on team #70, Auto City Bandits, from Powers Catholic High School and Kettering University.


In Reply to: Same here
Posted by colleen - T190 on 03/15/2001 2:00 PM EST:



: Adding another set of alliances competing would add only a 1/2hour-hour of time to Saturday..

: Think of how long we sit after the competition waiting for it to get dark so we can do awards..

: Tack it on their.. take an hour off the party..

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Posted by Veronica at 03/15/2001 8:33 PM EST


Student on team #27, Team Rush, from Osmtech and Textron.


In Reply to: I agree. (eom)
Posted by bill whitley on 03/15/2001 4:09 PM EST:



it is not the end bill!




: : Adding another set of alliances competing would

add only a 1/2hour-hour of time to Saturday..

: : Think of how long we sit after the competition waiting for it to get dark so we can do awards..

: : Tack it on their.. take an hour off the party..

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Posted by Al Skierkiewicz at 03/15/2001 2:07 PM EST


Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Wheeling High & Rolling Meadows High and Motorola.


In Reply to: New Poll
Posted by PollMaster on 03/14/2001 7:23 PM EST:



I agree, let's give more chances. It will certainly add some excitement in the finals.
Al

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Posted by Jeff Waegelin at 03/24/2001 8:48 PM EST


Student on team #201, Visteon FEDS, from Rochester High School and Visteon Automotive Systems.


In Reply to: New Poll
Posted by PollMaster on 03/14/2001 7:23 PM EST:



As many of you know, the time taken for elimination rounds is not that long. They almost seem like they are too short. My feelings are that if you add an additional round, you double the teams in the finals, and more teams will feel like they have accomplished something. It is very disheartening to work for three days and not get picked, and in the current form, only 10 out of 80 teams will go into the finals in Florida. It seems obvious that added opportunity is a good thing, and FIRST should increase the teams in the finals. Anything less would be doing a huge injustice to the teams that work so hard and travel so far to be at Nationals.

Jeff

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Posted by Jeff Waegelin at 03/24/2001 8:50 PM EST


Student on team #201, Visteon FEDS, from Rochester High School and Visteon Automotive Systems.


In Reply to: So short, it's a no-brainer
Posted by Jeff Waegelin on 03/24/2001 8:48 PM EST:



As many of you know, the time taken for elimination rounds is not that long. They almost seem like they are too short. My feelings are that if you add an additional round, you double the teams in the finals, and more teams will feel like they have accomplished something. It is very disheartening to work for three days and not get picked, and in the current form, only 10 out of 80 teams will go into the finals in Florida. It seems obvious that added opportunity is a good thing, and FIRST should increase the teams in the finals. Anything less would be doing a huge injustice to the teams that work so hard and travel so far to be at Nationals.

Jeff

(The original name of the post was a bit too cryptic, so I resubmitted this)

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Posted by Raul at 03/25/2001 12:17 PM EST


Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling HS and Motorola.


In Reply to: So short, it's a no-brainer
Posted by Jeff Waegelin on 03/24/2001 8:48 PM EST:



I agree and will feel sorry for many very good teams (possibly including ourselves) that will not get into the eliminations. We just did the 4 team eliminations at Chicago in about 1.5 hours. So at Nationals they could do 4 team divisions each in about 1.5 hours, followed by the final 4 in another 1.5 hours. At worst, it could take 3.5 hours total if we added the extra round of matches.

I know Nate posted a worst case scenario of about 6 hours, but this is not very likely.

Raul


: As many of you know, the time taken for elimination rounds is not that long. They almost seem like they are too short. My feelings are that if you add an additional round, you double the teams in the finals, and more teams will feel like they have accomplished something. It is very disheartening to work for three days and not get picked, and in the current form, only 10 out of 80 teams will go into the finals in Florida. It seems obvious that added opportunity is a good thing, and FIRST should increase the teams in the finals. Anything less would be doing a huge injustice to the teams that work so hard and travel so far to be at Nationals.

: Jeff