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elrospot 22-09-2004 09:20

2005 Nationals
 
Hey, pumped for 04-05? I know I am but I sure am confused. The FIRST site (i.e. http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2005/chevents.htm) says that '05 Nationals are at the Georgia Dome 4/21-23/04. I know there have been posts about how dissapointing it would be to have Disney canceled :ahh: (SoCal) but I had not read anything about this. What's the word on the street? You heard anything?

Cory 22-09-2004 10:01

Re: 2005 Nationals
 
Nationals were in the Georgia Dome last year, and will be there until 2006 (I can't add :D) at least (They had a 3 year contract, right? Or was it 6?)

Cory

Pat Fairbank 22-09-2004 10:07

Re: 2005 Nationals
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Cory
Nationals were in the Georgia Dome last year, and will be there until 2007 at least (They had a 3 year contract, right? Or was it 6?)

As far as I know it was a 3 year contract, meaning that they'll be there until 2006.

suneel112 22-09-2004 11:06

Re: 2005 Nationals
 
I think Atlanta is a great location for the Championship event. It is modern enough, warm enough, and has good restaurants, but too many escalators.

E Jones 234 22-09-2004 11:11

Re: 2005 Nationals
 
so far, atlanta has been the best national site for me. at disney, it was super expensive and eventually got too small, houston was a long way to drag the robot up and down ramps. at the georgia dome, the weather was nice, expenses weren't as much, the robot walk to the fields were very short, overall it was nice. the escalators weren't so bad really... better than stairs, waiting for elevators, or ramps...

Ian W. 22-09-2004 14:14

Re: 2005 Nationals
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by suneel112
I think Atlanta is a great location for the Championship event. It is modern enough, warm enough, and has good restaurants, but too many escalators.

Someone obviously didn't get their media passes at Atlanta... :-p

miketwalker 22-09-2004 15:04

Re: 2005 Nationals
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Cory
Nationals were in the Georgia Dome last year, and will be there until 2006 (I can't add :D) at least (They had a 3 year contract, right? Or was it 6?)

Cory

It is a 3 year contract. Last year and this year are mandatory. However, FIRST can change locations next year if they wish to. I know FIRST was pleased this year with Atlanta, so I'd suspect that you will almost definitly have the Championship Event there for that 2006 date, and probably some sort of extension to the contract (unless Disney gets their act together and puts together a great proposal for FIRST)

-Mike

Blacknight 22-09-2004 20:34

Re: 2005 Nationals
 
Atlanta was great but only having two elevators to bring tools and such into the pits was not fun. There were quite long lines to get down there and around 1ish all the teams finally got all their pit equipment. Hopefully this year they'll let us unload underneath (the way we loaded to leave)

Cory 22-09-2004 20:51

Re: 2005 Nationals
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by E Jones 234
so far, atlanta has been the best national site for me. at disney, it was super expensive and eventually got too small, houston was a long way to drag the robot up and down ramps. at the georgia dome, the weather was nice, expenses weren't as much, the robot walk to the fields were very short, overall it was nice. the escalators weren't so bad really... better than stairs, waiting for elevators, or ramps...

I had no problem with having to take escalators.

I did have a problem with it taking 20 minutes to get from the pits to the field without having a press pass.

It made watching matches as a member of the drive team/pit crew incredibly tough.

Jon K. 22-09-2004 22:06

Re: 2005 Nationals
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Cory
I had no problem with having to take escalators.

I did have a problem with it taking 20 minutes to get from the pits to the field without having a press pass.

It made watching matches as a member of the drive team/pit crew incredibly tough.

Yeah our pit crew, and drive team pretty much had to be leashed to the pits, because you just couldn't easily go view matches and be back in time.

Ali Ahmed 22-09-2004 23:05

Re: 2005 Nationals
 
I agree with all of you. The walk from the pits to the fields to watch was way too long. But I heard a rumor that they are changing it for 2005. Can anyone confirm that?

Alan Anderson 22-09-2004 23:10

Re: 2005 Nationals
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ali_rockon22
I agree with all of you. The walk from the pits to the fields to watch was way too long. But I heard a rumor that they are changing it for 2005. Can anyone confirm that?

I thought I already posted this, but it doesn't show up. http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2005/reg_open.htm says:
Quote:

Originally Posted by FIRST
We are excited to be returning to Atlanta and have made changes to significantly improve the event. For example, the planned Pit area will be over twice as large as last year and the spectator commute is much shorter.


Heretic121 22-09-2004 23:22

Re: 2005 Nationals
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
I thought I already posted this, but it doesn't show up. http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2005/reg_open.htm says:

ok... what i get from the pits area... i assume that we will have both halls downstairs (one last year was filled from another event) and that will almost double the size of the pits... having 2 divisions in each hall...

but about the walk for the spectators being shorter... i wonder if they will either open up a back way from the pits to the stadium from the downstairs area outside, or if where they had the shirts, if there is a pathway there to get from the pits to the stadium... i guess we will find out in April =D

CmptrGk 23-09-2004 19:59

Re: 2005 Nationals
 
a friend and i were able to make it from the dome to the escalator above the pits in 5 min for a programming thing that was completly over out heads. but i really liked the nationals in atlanta. (just not the hotel)

AmyPrib 23-09-2004 23:15

Re: 2005 Nationals
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Jon K.
Yeah our pit crew, and drive team pretty much had to be leashed to the pits, because you just couldn't easily go view matches and be back in time.

As members of the drive team, we walked onto the field floor and up the stairs thru the Lego League Pit, either directly after our own match, or coming from the pits. Perfectly legal as far as I'm concerned. :) I needed to watch other matches and was not about to take the 20+min walk.
Either way, I expect it'll be greatly improved next year.


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