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MooreteP 22-01-2017 16:19

Georgia Dome
 
I am watching the NFL playoff game between the Falcons and the Packers.
The Georgia Dome will be demolished soon. :confused:
https://youtu.be/Sft_HmIwVPA

What are you best memories of the CMP at the Georgia Dome?
The long walk from the Pits?. The event in Centennial Park?
The availability of Hotel rooms to great Public Transit?
The Varsity? The Tornado damage?
The ease of getting direct flights to ATL?
The upsets?
https://youtu.be/gznDtrAv7sA
8th seed from Newton.

Poseidon5817 22-01-2017 16:27

Re: Georgia Dome
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by MooreteP (Post 1634841)
I am watching the NFL playoff game between the Falcons and the Packers.
The Georgia Dome will be demolished soon. :confused:
https://youtu.be/Sft_HmIwVPA

What are you best memories of the CMP at the Georgia Dome?
The long walk from the Pits?. The event in Centennial Park?
The availability of Hotel rooms to great Public Transit?
The Varsity? The Tornado damage?
The ease of getting direct flights to ATL?
The upsets?
https://youtu.be/gznDtrAv7sA
8th seed from Newton.

Fun fact: Less NFC Championship games have been played at the Georgia Dome than FIRST Championships there.

JohnFogarty 22-01-2017 17:26

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I won the 2010 FTC World Championship in the GA Dome back in high school. I'll miss the place, but the new stadium is definitely nice.

Koko Ed 22-01-2017 17:27

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I'm gonna miss that place.

Tungrus 22-01-2017 19:08

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Our rookie FLL World Championship at the Dome! We will miss it!

Billfred 22-01-2017 19:43

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The trash bag art on the upper decks of 2004, and meeting all these crazy people working Archimedes.
HOT doing the double.
25's first loss of the season on Saturday in 2006, and them (and 968, and 195) very nearly winning a title. 968 would've poured some extra-spicy gasoline on the "254 is the best team without a championship" fire. Oh, and I got to referee the FVC world championship finals. Half-Pipe Hustle is criminally underrated as a game.
The Ringer of Destiny in 2007, with a side order of Einstein being set up improperly.
For 2008, I had finagled a media badge through USC for a class project and was down in the media pen for Einstein. After Finals 1, 217 comes and drops anchor right in front of us and starts doing preflight checks. It was glorious footage that I wish I still had over the years.
2009: Finally competing with a team! Also, getting screwed on Curie. (11th seed, and we both missed playoffs and Highest Rookie Seed? C'mon, son!)
2010: The 469/1114 coronation-turned-dethroning. Simply thrilling to watch from the stands.

Oh, and best of all: Champs only being about four hours from my house. No overnight bus rides back then, though I suppose 5 hours to St. Louis or 4 hours to Detroit restores that somewhat.

CalTran 22-01-2017 20:28

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Freshman year (2010) my team qualified for Champs (woo #1 seed and Regional Win OKC) so just attending as a first year participant in general. I did media for the team at the time so got a nice little fieldside badge and everything. The 4 minute walk into the roaring crowd, seeing 469's gamebreaker in person, 1114 and 469 breaking the game further with a crazy 6-0 match, Dave's upside-down history lessons. Man, the nostalgia is crazy...

SteveGPage 22-01-2017 20:37

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Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnFogarty (Post 1634863)
I won the 2010 FTC World Championship in the GA Dome back in high school. I'll miss the place, but the new stadium is definitely nice.

I remember that day! My favorite memory of the Georgia Dome!

(Former Under the Son - FTC 2843 Strategy Coach)

Steve

Peyton Yeung 22-01-2017 21:20

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Probably walking all the way to the furthest field (Archimedes) from the pits just to find out we had the wrong bumper color. That is a "fun" run all the way back to get the correct bumpers before our match.

plnyyanks 22-01-2017 21:43

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Quote:

Originally Posted by CalTran (Post 1634908)
Freshman year (2010) my team qualified for Champs (woo #1 seed and Regional Win OKC) so just attending as a first year participant in general. I did media for the team at the time so got a nice little fieldside badge and everything. The 4 minute walk into the roaring crowd, seeing 469's gamebreaker in person, 1114 and 469 breaking the game further with a crazy 6-0 match, Dave's upside-down history lessons. Man, the nostalgia is crazy...

Almost exactly the same as my story. Man, that was a great way to cap off my first year in FRC

anishde 22-01-2017 21:57

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There was always something special about each FIRST Championship in Atlanta. Something electric.

But for me, the most memorable moment was the closing ceremony of the final championship to be held in Atlanta in 2010, before the move to St. Louis. It felt like a fitting departure - less of a farewell and more of a celebration of what had been an amazing seven years.

Lil' Lavery 22-01-2017 22:20

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"UNNNNBELIEVABLE!"

IndySam 22-01-2017 22:25

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I have lots great memories from the Georgia Dome both competing and volunteering but my favorite moment was watching Chris Fultz get his Championship Woodie Flowers Award.

rspurlin 22-01-2017 23:18

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery (Post 1634950)

Thanks for posting that link. I was a ref on Newton that year and enjoyed watching the spectacular teamwork between those two teams.

As someone who volunteered every year the champs were in Atlanta, we'd love to have everyone back.

alicen 23-01-2017 00:02

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The perks of being a long time Atlanta volunteer means that I have a few out there favorite memories ;)

- my best friend and I got to race segways around the inner ring of the dome, this is also where all the maintenance carts and things drive around the field, and where I discovered how non intuitive twisting forward and backward was for right and left controls!

- there's a photo somewhere (I can't find it) of my friend and I playing around in a bunch of spare tubes from Rack n Roll (2007) on the Dome floor in between Einstein matches

- got to meet both Dean and Woodie, even got to talk about potential paths for college with Woodie and sign his shirt

(also fitting that I would post directly under my dad's post!)

Hallry 23-01-2017 00:54

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Having joined Team 1676 for the 2010 season, I was fortunate to experience the last year of the FIRST Championship at the Georgia Dome. I can vividly remember staying in the Omni Hotel attached to the CNN Center food court, with news footage of the smoke from the erupting volcano in Iceland affecting European flights playing on the huge hanging TV. The short walk to the Dome was great, and I fondly miss the large outdoor courtyard between the dome and the pits. There were kids playing with RC cars and helicopters, and if I remember correctly the Dean's List presentation was out there was well. 2010 was the closest 1676 ever got to tasting Einstein, being picked by 1986 along with 888 and backup 1421 for the third seeded alliance on Curie before ultimately losing to the beastly 1114-469-2041 alliance in the finals. And I could never forget the "after party" in Centennial Olympic Park, complete with an awesome drum show and an amazing fireworks display. For a freshman, the entire experience was absolutely incredible and definitely left a lasting impact. I certainly hope that with the Mercedes-Benz Dome being finished soon, a FIRST Championship could return back to Atlanta one day.

Koko Ed 23-01-2017 02:33

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Billfred (Post 1634896)
The trash bag art on the upper decks of 2004,
.

I remember telling my kids to hang up out giant 25 x 20 banner we had from the upper deck not realizing that teams were banned from going up there. The two boys who went up there hung the banner up and were immediately perused by security. They claimed they had the most fun at the event hiding in bathrooms and behind garbage cans eluding security and jumping down the ramps to escape them(they were into parkour so they were of course going to take the crazy way down). One of them ended up spraining his ankle doing that and I felt bad enabling them to be in that position and threw the banner away after the event.

IndySam 23-01-2017 09:22

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Oh and peeing next to the Woz.

martin417 23-01-2017 11:02

Re: Georgia Dome
 
George Bush's speech in 2008:

"like the WWF, but for smart people."

Rangel 23-01-2017 11:48

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Watching this live my rookie year of FRC. Was blown away by how exciting the match was and by how great the commentary was. Seven years later, still my favorite match of all time.

Peyton Yeung 23-01-2017 12:00

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Rangel (Post 1635108)
Watching this live my rookie year of FRC. Was blown away by how exciting the match was and by how great the commentary was. Seven years later, still my favorite match of all time.

That was a close match. I think my favorite match from champs that year was this one. I was the human player for 45 and there was such a rush to return balls to the field. Plus the 4 robots hanging at the end was amazing.

Mike Wittman 23-01-2017 13:05

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I have many fond memories of attending events at the Georgia Dome. The one that is most memorable was when I took a wrong turn and ended up somewhere I didn't know. It was an access hall or tunnel. In one of the back tunnels of the Georgia Dome there are a series of posters on the wall, one representing each year, with an event that occurred that year, depicted on the poster. I can't remember the year, but there is one poster where the representative event is FIRST. The picture on the poster is of a founding team member of FIRST Team #1714, MORE Robotics wearing a robot mascot costume. That member went on to captain the team and changing the way we did things. She also went on to earn a Regional Dean's list award. She went on to college and is currently working on changing the world in a positive way.

Joe Johnson 23-01-2017 13:16

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I remember looking up and seeing that roof structure for the first time from inside the dome. I was moved.

So clever. How is the magic accomplished? The more you look at the more clever it gets.

Here is my best explanation of the trick:
  1. Build a Big Outer Hoop
  2. Suspend a Slightly Smaller, Slightly Lower Hoop on cables from BOH
  3. Put columns on SSSLH with the tops of the columns higher than BOH,
  4. Stablize columns with cables to back to BOH,
  5. Use tops of columns to repeat process recursivley.
  6. Ring after ring, you eventually reach that high center ridge line of poles over the midline of the field.

SO SO SO CLEVER.

I admit I was sad seeing the roof during the Falcons-Packers game, knowing its days are numbered.

The world will be a little less good when that dome roof structure ceases to exist.

Dr. Joe J.

DonRotolo 23-01-2017 17:00

Re: Georgia Dome
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Billfred (Post 1634896)
2009: Finally competing with a team! Also, getting screwed on Curie. (11th seed, and we both missed playoffs and Highest Rookie Seed? C'mon, son!)

1676 had a similar experience in Atlanta: 11th seed and never picked. sigh.
Quote:

Originally Posted by IndySam (Post 1635053)
Oh and peeing next to the Woz.

You didn't turn to say hello, did you? :eek:

Green man group out in the courtyard. The l o n g walk, up and down and over and in and out...then ending up in that magnificent indoor space! The booth full of money. Andymark's booth for the first time! CD Meet & greet & T-shirts. That long escalator when coming from centennial park. Walking all the way from the Marriott as a group voicing the Super Mario Bros music. Watching others get wet in the fountain. And marveling at the efficiency of feeding a HUGE crowd with those long tables at the after-parties.

That being said: the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium will be awesome. A friend is a steelworker and his stories of putting the roof (and now the petals) in place are, er, interesting. Don't look down!

Eugene Fang 23-01-2017 17:18

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Nica F. 23-01-2017 19:57

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Eugene Fang (Post 1635276)

Understood that what you've linked to is a distinct memory, but quite a negative one to have as your "best" memory without much of a sentence to support it. I for one am glad there were no fatalities during the incident you have reminded us all of.

**
On a more cheerful note - I will miss all the Chief Delphi Web Hugs that were had at this venue! Safe to say that the ATL year Web Hugs were the first time I met many people I've grown quite close to (and am still close to today!). Just did a quick image tag search and found all of the old photos uploaded from the years 2005-2009 and they brought back quite the memories! First time I truly felt that the FIRST community was a big welcoming family. Hoping this is a tradition to bring back in the venues to come.

Also - wondering if anyone remembers the name of the place I'm talking about downtown, but I also had my first bison burger in Atlanta and it's left quite the memory as well! :p

Eugene Fang 23-01-2017 20:16

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Nica F. (Post 1635320)
Understood that what you've linked to is a distinct memory, but quite a negative one to have as your "best" memory without much of a sentence to support it. I for one am glad there were no fatalities during the incident you have reminded us all of.

Yeah I guess by the time I finished reading all of the posts prior, I thought about distinct memories rather than necessarily good ones.

I'll never forget being so excited when, in 2010, 254 drove into the tunnel in auton in attempt to block 469's robot from getting into scoring position on Einstein. Too bad it didn't work. The volunteers were nice enough to allow some of us who had gotten eliminated earlier spectate from the floor on Einstein, and let us move closer to the field every time a match started. Best seats in the house!

rspurlin 23-01-2017 20:27

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Nica F. (Post 1635320)
Also - wondering if anyone remembers the name of the place I'm talking about downtown, but I also had my first bison burger in Atlanta and it's left quite the memory as well! :p

probably Ted's Montana Grill - it is a chain so there might be one near you.

A venture partly owned by Ted Turner of CNN fame. He owns over a billion acres and ranches bison.

IndySam 23-01-2017 21:33

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DonRotolo (Post 1635258)
You didn't turn to say hello, did you? :eek:

Why yes I did and he was very nice.

The next year we were in the elevator up to the VIP suite with him and Janet and had a nice chat. He invited us to the Segway Polo Nationals in Indy that year.

He is seriously the most down to earth billionaire you will ever meet.

DRow 23-01-2017 21:54

Re: Georgia Dome
 
I miss Sir Charles.

Seriously, does anyone remember the name of the 2010 game?
https://youtu.be/54KG94wJvmc?t=1m21s

sanddrag 23-01-2017 22:20

Re: Georgia Dome
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by rspurlin (Post 1635334)
probably Ted's Montana Grill - it is a chain so there might be one near you.

OMG yes, that place was so good! Mary Mac's was very good too.

Rangel 23-01-2017 22:21

Re: Georgia Dome
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by DRow (Post 1635378)
I miss Sir Charles.

Seriously, does anyone remember the name of the 2010 game?
https://youtu.be/54KG94wJvmc?t=1m21s

"You better ask somebody."

Cory 24-01-2017 03:05

Re: Georgia Dome
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by DRow (Post 1635378)
I miss Sir Charles.

Seriously, does anyone remember the name of the 2010 game?
https://youtu.be/54KG94wJvmc?t=1m21s

OG Sir Charles in 2004 was the funniest.

GOING FOR THE HOOKUP, BABY!
WELCOME TO THE GEORGIA DOME, BABY!
5 POINT POSSIBILITIES...ALL OVER THE FIELD!
IT'S NOT OVER TIL IT'S OVER, BABY!
WELCOME TO THE ATL!

Classic.

Peter Matteson 24-01-2017 08:35

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2010:
Friday afternoon our robot fell from the bar in the second to last match of the day due to a bad cable crimp. One of our articulating drive pods was wrecked and we had just over an hour to our final match of the day.

We knew if we didn't get the robot back on the field and perform we wouldn't get picked because everyone would write us off.

Fortunately we had the parts ready and practiced this fix once we realized it was a possibility. The kids on our pit crew were prepping and had everything ready for when the robot got back and started working before the cart stopped in the pit. They rebuilt the drive and we had the robot re-inspected got out to the field for one of the final matches of the day and were able to show HOT that everything was working and we were good to go.

Saturday morning when the alliance selection is going on we are available for the #1 alliance of 67 and 294 to take as the final pick.

This went on to be our 5th consecutive trip to Einstein, and 2nd Championship.

All this happened because our pit crew was ready to go when they needed to be under real pressure and they didn't want to let the team down.

This was my best Georgia Dome moment and my best mentor moment at the same time.

Tom Bottiglieri 25-01-2017 17:05

Re: Georgia Dome
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Eugene Fang (Post 1635328)
I'll never forget being so excited when, in 2010, 254 drove into the tunnel in auton in attempt to block 469's robot from getting into scoring position on Einstein. Too bad it didn't work. The volunteers were nice enough to allow some of us who had gotten eliminated earlier spectate from the floor on Einstein, and let us move closer to the field every time a match started. Best seats in the house!

It helps to leave the position controller on after you get where you are going.


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