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Originally Posted by David Brinza
What about Dean's homework? Are we attracting spectators to FIRST events who are NOT part of a team? A free concert could certainly boost the crowd in the Dome. But will those spectators be engaged by the robotics competition or the FIRST program? Or worse, could this create crowd control and security issues?
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I hope that no one takes this the wrong way, but:
If I or my team are unable to find seats for the finals because there are hundreds or thousands of spectator that just came to see Will.I.Am or whatever performer, perform - I'm going to start looking into other programs, after raising all hell.
Seriously, I feel that it's disrespectful to teams to move fields around just to make room for some entertainer. Teams are going to COMPETE and paid a lot of money and worked extremely hard to do so - the only thing that a live musical guest is going to do is piss a ton of people off - including myself.
If anything, moving fields around or out of the dome to make room for a large stage for Entertainment seems to go against everything that FIRST says that their for. I thought we were going to change the culture, not have the culture change us.
I don't see why they don't have the Finale Party inside of the same building in which the pits are housed, I'm sure there will be an open room or two that are large enough to accommodate everyone along with a decent sized stage. I'm pretty sure this is what was done in Atlanta when the weather was too nasty for people to be outside.