Imma just leve this here 
Sleep well pupper
Iāll offer a counter-point from Palmetto - the look after replacing a spring for the hundredth time. Iām thankful the FTAs are willing to put up with so much and keep the field running!
http://i.imgur.com/qoILBe7l.jpg
Also, for some reason the blades kept breaking off rotors 2-4 on the airships yesterday. The FTAs were changing out blades about once per match for a whileā¦
The blades? As in the propellers attached to the gear motors?
Yep - the 3 red and blue propellers at the top of the airships. They would start drooping after a couple matches and then one of the blades would snap off, at which point the whole propeller would typically fall off due to imbalance.
Theyāre drooping today but not breaking as often:
Looks like they are drooping about the same as at Northern lights. To the best of my knowledge they never broke. Maybe someone else can chime in?
At Palmetto only one prop fell off early on. It just dropped off, no pilot was harmed or even frightened by it.
The droop is just because these are light plastic props, not real rigid.
The most frequently started rotors (#2) were immediately removed and a little flag of red or blue tape was added so the Pilots could see when the rotor had been successfully activated.
The field staff engineered a permanent fix, and for several matches in succussion a re-engineered rotor was installed and an old design rotor was removed to be remachined in turn.
Those blades never broke at Northern Lights. We did have a bunch of bent springs though.
Seriously, even if the FTA is sleeping, he really deserves that. He did an awesome job of keeping everything running as smooth as possible, and was still a really nice guy!
Of all the FTAs Iāve worked with, one of the things I like most about Chris is his commitment to the āshowā part of a regional. Iāve learned a lot from him about making the event about the audience (both at the event and on the webcast) as well as the teams.
The FTAs and FTAAs worked their butts off at the Duluth events. The field build started about noon on Wednesday and ran until 10 PM. It resumed at 7:30 on Thursday and Northern Lights wasnāt buttoned up until right about 1:30. I have no idea how long field teardown went, because I realized about 8:30 last night that my dogs had been locked in the house for 14 hours straight without a bathroom break.
So hereās a huge shout out of appreciation to Bryan, David, Chris and Steve the FTAs in Duluth. (And Iām sure everywhere else, but I wasnāt everywhere else.)
Indeed Thank-you to all who make the Double DECCer possible, especially with this years complicated field / game.
We had no problems with the blades in NEWAT, but the springs, barbs & the contact mounts for the climbing trigger were all breaking. I really respect our FTAās in CT, (Chris & Matt) as they had their hands full. As FS I worked diligently to make the field ready for our teams. We started setting up Friday morning around 9:30 due to the school not putting down the floor protector the night before. I left @ 10:30pm & there was still more to put together & missing hardware. We finally were ready for matches @ around 10:30am (no practice matches) Matches went to 9:30pm to offset the late start & commenced at 8:30 Sunday morning with no opening ceremonies. We actually caught up on the schedule I left @ 9:30pm because I needed sleep for work on Monday, but they only had about 30-45 minutes left.
That pillow doesnāt look very comfortable :ahh:
Thatās not my first thought when I see the phrase āsleeping gearā.
We should caption contest this.
Does anyone have a photo of the left side of his face after he got up from his nap?