Field Access

[Sunny]

I think it'd be better to restrict the field access. Because this past year we let everyone crowd around the field. My suggestions are.

1. Keep the Audience at least 3 feet away from the field.

2. Have 2 standing lanes in the drivers station. Where the drivers are in the first lane, and the coaches are right behind them. It'll help reduce the crowded-ness in drivers stations.

3. Beyond the 3 foot length barrier, have chairs set out. And then people who want to stand can do so behind the chairs.

4. I think we'll also need to work better with queues.

5. Work better with the field flow.

An overall better, more structured lay out will really help this year.

[Tanner]

I think it'd be better to restrict the field access. Because this past year we let everyone crowd around the field. My suggestions are.

1. Keep the Audience at least 3 feet away from the field.

2. Have 2 standing lanes in the drivers station. Where the drivers are in the first lane, and the coaches are right behind them. It'll help reduce the crowded-ness in drivers stations.

3. Beyond the 3 foot length barrier, have chairs set out. And then people who want to stand can do so behind the chairs.

4. I think we'll also need to work better with queues.

5. Work better with the field flow.

An overall better, more structured lay out will really help this year.

1. Can you see from that far away. I know I've only been to one FTC regional (or whatever it was called when I went), but the idea of having small robots and people far away seems iffy. Maybe just no chairs... Just a line of "back off".

2. Not understanding what you mean. You basically mean that each team has the two drivers standing next to one another and the coach behind them? Same for each of the teams on one side?

3. See #1

4. Yeah, but I'm not sure how quite yet.

5. Field flow? Moving teams in and out of the field?

[ptwortman]

I think it'd be better to restrict the field access. Because this past year we let everyone crowd around the field. My suggestions are.

1. Keep the Audience at least 3 feet away from the field.

2. Have 2 standing lanes in the drivers station. Where the drivers are in the first lane, and the coaches are right behind them. It'll help reduce the crowded-ness in drivers stations.

3. Beyond the 3 foot length barrier, have chairs set out. And then people who want to stand can do so behind the chairs.

4. I think we'll also need to work better with queues.

5. Work better with the field flow.

An overall better, more structured lay out will really help this year.

1. Can you see from that far away. I know I've only been to one FTC regional (or whatever it was called when I went), but the idea of having small robots and people far away seems iffy. Maybe just no chairs... Just a line of "back off".

2. Not understanding what you mean. You basically mean that each team has the two drivers standing next to one another and the coach behind them? Same for each of the teams on one side?

3. See #1

4. Yeah, but I'm not sure how quite yet.

5. Field flow? Moving teams in and out of the field?

1. why not have a large set of cameras surround the field, that way we can put it onto a screen so people can watch the screen instead of the field...

2. same as tanner

3. chairs can be used for people to view the screen, or look at the field from a farther point.

4. is there such a thing as wireless beepers? if so, we could set up beepers at each team work station. when they are being queued, we call them out as we also signal their beeper and it can light up and beep or w/e...just an idea

5. keep idiots off and know-it-alls silent


just take everything into consideration. its all a learning experience.

[livedj1173]

i think that the que can be improved like moto did give us walkies and we can use they are wireless. i think the chairs are wrong we should set up a piece of cautin tape across and say DO NOT CROSS.... and we can set up the chairs fruther behind.....

[Sunny]

I am thinking of the layout that we could use, this year, we had the field towards the theater, and the pits toward the gym, and we had all of the food arrangements towards the lunch lines, towards the school store, we had the programming center, we had a little sit and build the tops kinda thing, and we had the VEX give away/mrs. strain's table.

What if we make it like this.

Coming in from the front door into the commons, in front of the school store, we put the field. That way, teams need to walk BEHIND the large columns to que. If we choose to do a crystal method, some of you that were at the first FTC regional. When teams enter the queue, from one side behind the pillars, they pick up their crystals. Then when they leave, they hand over their crystals. That will help solve the whole crystals issue. The direction of the crowd flow is the same so it won't be as big of a bustle.

As far as chairs were concerned, in the first FTC regional we attended, there were chairs set up right along side the field and anyone who wishes to stand, could do so behind the chairs. Everyone was able to see fine, and the parents didn't really have to move. Not putting up chairs would be kinda bad...for the few spectators we do have.

Then next to field, between the theater door and the gym door, we can put the pits, and then behind the pits, between the Fine Arts hallway, and the concession stand, we can have more tables/chairs set up.

It's probably hard to picture it in words, but I think it'll be a good layout. But of course we can talk about this when school starts.

[Tanner]

I am thinking of the layout that we could use, this year, we had the field towards the theater, and the pits toward the gym, and we had all of the food arrangements towards the lunch lines, towards the school store, we had the programming center, we had a little sit and build the tops kinda thing, and we had the VEX give away/mrs. strain's table.

What if we make it like this.

Coming in from the front door into the commons, in front of the school store, we put the field. That way, teams need to walk BEHIND the large columns to que. If we choose to do a crystal method, some of you that were at the first FTC regional. When teams enter the queue, from one side behind the pillars, they pick up their crystals. Then when they leave, they hand over their crystals. That will help solve the whole crystals issue. The direction of the crowd flow is the same so it won't be as big of a bustle.

As far as chairs were concerned, in the first FTC regional we attended, there were chairs set up right along side the field and anyone who wishes to stand, could do so behind the chairs. Everyone was able to see fine, and the parents didn't really have to move. Not putting up chairs would be kinda bad...for the few spectators we do have.

Then next to field, between the theater door and the gym door, we can put the pits, and then behind the pits, between the Fine Arts hallway, and the concession stand, we can have more tables/chairs set up.

It's probably hard to picture it in words, but I think it'll be a good layout. But of course we can talk about this when school starts.

That's an idea, though it would take a bit of painters tape on the floor to help guide the queue.

I still don't get the idea of small robots and people sitting down, but if it works I'm fine with it. And we don't just have a few spectators, there were quite a lot of people standing around the field last year.

-Tanner

[Sunny]

Well, the chairs are only roughly 3-4 rows deep. So it's not that hard to see what's going on up front.