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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?
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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?)
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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.
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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...
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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)
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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. |
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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?
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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 |
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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)
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Either way, I expect it'll be greatly improved next year. |
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