2004 1st (Annual?) Beantown Blitz - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

[Elgin Clock]

The good:

Great venue - Lots of room to move around
People and Robot Traffic flowed smmothly from the pits to the field. (For all who disagree on this one I will refer you to the setup in NJ this year where the main traffic flow for people was through the stands from the pits to the field and vice versa).
Competition ran fairly smooth, except for the ocassional power outages.
Lunch was awesome!! Thanks Raytheon for sponsoring that.
Shirts for sale!! Yay!! (But see below)

The Bad:
Where were the signs and/or the people telling us where that great lunch was??
Ugghh... Boston Traffic.. lol Tunnels to the Mass Pike? Where did those come from? lol Did someboday say "The Big Dig?" Is that finally done?
10x10 pits when we had all that room in the arena to stretch? You know, you don't have to go by official FIRST rules all of the time , especially when it concerns the selected venue..

The Ugly:
Parking = $12?? I have never paid for parking at an "official" FIRST event, nevermind an off season one. Should have gotten one of them BTB Shirts free if you parked there at the arena lot! As soon as they came to me and asked for $12 I asked our driver where that $5 parking was.. and grumbled when he said that "cheap" parking was about a half mile away or so and reluctantly paid 12 bucks to park.

And the last ugly thing at BTB was our team's BAD luck!! lol

Oh well, all in all a great event, hope to be there for next year's.