Wrong side of the line. Way over the wrong side of the line.
Even for you @Anomaly this is way over the top.
Let me clue you into a few things that you should think about
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Yes, I’m older. I’m an old. That means I have a boatload of real world experience. Day after Day, Month after Month, Year after Year of learning stuff. Since I was a cranky teen until today as a cranky old. After raising kids, the common thread is “Wow Dad, this adult stuff is hard”. Looking forward to the day you tell your parents that.
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I’ve been doing this for 13 years, so I was a Middle when I started this. I started to help my child and got hooked on it. As an engineer it was an easy thing to do. Since bolting things is something that I did for years, it was an easy transition.
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Competition robotics is worthless if there isn’t competitions. So another mentor and I set up a non-profit to run competitions. We started off with 2 and across the years grew to 12 a year. And the years past so I’ve been responsible for over 100 different events. Cool thing is that I learned year after year as I got older was how to do events bigger and better.
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Volunteers cover a wide range of activities
- Planning
- Finding 50+ volunteers
- Advertising
- Getting shirts and hats for the teams
- Pit setup
** tables
** coverings
** power
** signs - Food service for setup night (Food and water)
- Borrowing fields and setting up
- Electronics setting up
- Juice, Water and breakfast foods
- Checkin and inspection
- Team queuing
- Judges
** Head judge
** Judge training
** Foms and documents they need - Referees
** Shirts
** Training
** Connecting to make sure they are making good calls. - Event continuity
- Announcing
- Scorekeeping
** Form management
** Making sure that scores are recorded correctly - Computer management
- Awards
- VIP management
- Sponsor management – Did they get their stuff are they happy
- Daytime food
- Daycare management for younger robot families
- Afternoon food for volunteers
- Wrangle the press for awards and match videos
- Start teardown
- Get all the people, equipement, fields, power, chairs, computer stuff packed up and sent away
- Close out the venue with the management
Just off the top of my head this is the people that are working.
Oh yea, run the event. So based on all the above, about 8% of the people are referees. I’m sure video replay not on their minds. It’s not a blip on mine. Only a blip on yours.
I spend about 100 hours my time making an event work. Think about that @Anomaly, lets drop two and a half weeks on paychecks on helping other people.
So I don’t appreciate the remarks. You are clueless. You have written to me and other EP’s about how you talk to us and we get apologizes. Hours later you are back calling us out for being stupid.
You need to pull your act together. Your friends on “The Discord” need to pull it together.
Lots of the EP’s are here trying to make events possible, make the best possible events.
Except I have you here standing on the forum making my sneakers wet? What’s up with that?
@Anomaly I’m not really up for yet another insincere apology. Maybe walking away until after Worlds would work?
And I’m not going into all the hours that I’ve spent across the years developing teams. Lots of teams to worlds. Lots of teams that win awards. Lots that win Excellence. Two of them win Mentor of the year. Lots of inspire to lots of roboteers. College grads for roboteers that were not going to school. A detention girl that pulled out and is now a nurse with a family. Little successes that mean nothing to you, but mean a lot to the roboteers.
And just a reminder, getting old is a good thing. Not getting old is called death. I learn something new every week, my talents expand. So for me, not getting old will suck, since there is so much to learn
And I’m sure Sharwin from 5776E, your comments will add to this conversation.