Originally Posted by The Lucas (Post 728913)

Philadelphia will not work, plus they plan on demolishing the Spectrum to build an entertainment center called Philly Live.

Danny brings up a good point. Due to scheduling conflicts with baseball, hockey and baseball seasons, it should be a domed football stadium (or an old one w/o major sport). We don't want our championship scheduled around a sport's schedule. Also a football stadium is big enough for six fields, while a basketball/hockey arena likely doesn't have the floor space. KF987 doesn't seem to think a convention center can seat enough people and I would agree for the finals on Einstien (although it would probably work for the divisions remembering divisions in Disney tents).

The cities with a domed football stadium right next to a convention center previously mentioned are: Atlanta, Indy, and St Louis. Any others?

Originally Posted by Tomasz Bania (Post 728933)

As mentioned earlier, for Detroit You would have two options

Ford Field is HUGE (as mentioned in my previous posts) and has many small buildings surrounding it for extra team pits, but, for example, if the Championships were in Detroit this year, Comerica Park is available from the 16th to the 21st, leaving 18 hours to set up tents ( it's a squeeze, but very possible), but if it was a week earlier, they would have 3 days to set up tents and have 2 days to tear down. Either way, that gives two very large venues to FIRST's disposal, putting the fields in Ford Field and the Pits at Comerica. The other Venue list (Joe Louis Arena/Cobo Hall/Cobo Arena) would be available at this time. You could put Einstein and others in Joe Louis and put any left over in Cobo Arena, leaving Cobo Hall for the pits.

Originally Posted by RMiller (Post 728936)

Don't the Red Wings play in JLA? They normally make the playoffs, so that would be difficult.

Originally Posted by Tomasz Bania (Post 728889)

The food and hotel isn't my concern, as i'm sure most (if not all) venues have enough of this, but spacewise, the jobing.com arena is only 180,000 square feet, I can't think of another building right next to the arena that would make up the 613,084 square ft. deficit (as compared to Atlanta) for the pits and fields.

1/2 way to 818 (post 414)

Originally Posted by Tomasz Bania (Post 728937)

It is no Scheduled Gameplay at JLA during this years FIRST Championships (AFAICF)

Originally Posted by RMiller (Post 728941)

As of right now there isn't anything set in stone because the playoffs haven't been set. The regular season ends this weekend. If you check back in the middle of next week, I bet things will have changed for the scheduling at JLA.
I would guess they have they have at least the next month reserved for potential playoff hockey.

Originally Posted by Tomasz Bania (Post 728937)

It is no Scheduled Gameplay at JLA during this years FIRST Championships (AFAICF), and also look at the Ford Field and Comerica Park option.

Also, I'm not sure if St. Louis would be the best due to the airport not being as large as Detroit or Atlanta (although Atlana is a HUGE pain), but venue-wise they are a viable choice.

Originally Posted by The Lucas (Post 728944)

But again JLA would be dependent on Red Wings schedule, and no baseball team in their right mind would allow anyone to pitch tents and use power tools on their grass for 3 days during the season :ahh:

Originally Posted by Tomasz Bania (Post 728948)

It was done for the Super Bowl from what I remember(put platforms over the field and set up tents on those platforms)

Originally Posted by Tomasz Bania (Post 728942)

FIRST Championships from what I know are on different weekends and are usually moved to a time to accomidate FIRST's needs, so they could have it the week in-between season and playoffs(I think it's a full week), but if you want to eliminate That option, you still have Ford Field and Comerica Park.

Also, Just looking at the size of the U of Pheonix stadium, It looks much larger than the jobing.com arena. I don't know if you would want to use the jobing.com arena in that case. Have tents for the pits in part of the Parking Lot.

Originally Posted by Macdaddy549 (Post 729051)

Is it me or are the FIRST Championships getting later in the month of April?

Originally Posted by Kyle Love (Post 728813)

Indianapolis or Detroit. If you look at the immense number of teams who attend the Championships, majority would save travel time going to either of those cities opposed to somewhere such as Atlanta or California.