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Jaemus
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 01 Apr 2009
Posts: 2674
Location: NSW
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IDK if you were opening the floor to NSW interlopers like myself but my $0.02
- Agree with Aaron 1 hour lunch is needed
- Scheduled times were good, this actually helped me as I was able to keep in mind how long I had for repairs etc, and when I asked Steve at one point how long I had, he was able to give me an exact time
- Draw setup was great. The finals format worked for me.
- I thought maybe we could have benefit from some more feather heats, as there were lots of robots I didnt fight (although this was, perhaps, to my advantage). Although I understand if this wasnt feasible
Ready for some blather from me?
I still think we could benefit from dressing up the arena a bit more. At least some yellow/black striped tape, maybe a big QRSC logo on the floor, definately need to spam the robowars website EVERYWHERE to make it dead simple for someone to go home and investigate further. It would even be in their cameraphone photos and videos etc. I'd slather it all over the floor and inside and outside walls, and consider spending some club funds to have horizontal banners made that can hang over the arena. I know large vinyl stickers for the website / logos can be expensive, but could get some large stencils made and paint it on. This makes for easy maintenance. The more it looks like we are a big, organised, professional club(s), the more appeal we may have to potential builders.
Would also like to consider background music during fights and if possible, videos being displayed on the screens between fights (like we had at Suncorp Plaza) and during the fights, a time countdown display and / or pictures of the combatant robots with names clearly shown (to help the crowd ID the robots in the arena).
Was there any reason we couldnt fire up the big projector behind the arena? Too much light?
All this stuff may require another person to operate the A/V systems full-time during the event, which I understand is another thing to organise and/or pay for, but I consider it worthwhile for the sake of production values.
The MC we had this time around was fantastic, and this should be the minimum standard for all public events. Well done on getting that one organised!
Also the arena lighting, while it was convenient that the overhead lights present were sufficient for combat and the crowd, it wasn't really there for photography and not optimum for video IMO. Could benefit from more light. Maybe some funky coloured lights or even a bit of a small light show (to go along with the sound and video show I mentioned above, this can all be controlled by the A/V guy). I wonder what the cost would be to hire the small amount of A/V and lighting / staging gear that would be required and a drone to operate it for us? _________________ <Patrician|Away> what does your robot do, sam
<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls
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Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:47 pm |
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dyrodium
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 24 Aug 2004
Posts: 6476
Location: Sydney
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For a draw, could it be done more open? Even as a sceptical at the start? I know of two people who questioned how the initial draw was conducted.
I did the feather draw at Stevo's, initially we did it by entry date, but that ended up with lots of qld vs qld and nsw vs nsw fights, so I split up the states on bits of paper and seeded it that way, it was still random. Although we didn't fit quite enough fights in to do a full round robin, the idea is you will have the potential to fight everyone, we just wanted to make the first round a bit more 'interesting' for the competitors.
Music is a nice idea, but interferes with the video footage unfortunately.
1hr lunch 100% needed.
There was some fights where the MC just assumed I was judging, and had to rush to the arena to watch the fight (or the view was obscured as in the case of ant fights) so that was a little rubbish... luckily none of those fights were close. We really needed dedicated judges, Seano did a good job of that for Ants.
OT, but putting that carpet and antkit 'box' away was a total joke and wasted like 1hr plus of our teardown time. It was really their responsibility IMHO and after ripping the arena down it's a big ask. _________________ ( •_•)
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Fri Oct 11, 2013 7:23 am |
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