[IndySam]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kolodziej

On the latest update from Bill, he says something about being assigned a pit and not changing pits. I've read through this entire thread and I don't recall seeing anything about pit locations or any concern about them. Why does he mention pit locations? Perhaps the reason there are only two fields in the dome is because the pits for those 150+ teams are in the dome?

Think about it. The pits are half the action when it comes to an FRC event. If your championship is supposed to showcase everything about your ever, why not make the pits easily visible to the spectators as well? In Atlanta, if a spectator made their way to the dome to see competition, how many of them actually made their way to the pit as well? Not too many I'm betting..

But if you have playing fields and pits in the same location, you get spectators to see the best of both worlds, and you make the queuing trip almost nonexistent (save for those few matches where you switch).

Now, as much as I like this idea, it also raises a ton of red flags: two sets of pit admin, two sets of inspectors, all-calls in the dome would be difficult (though I could never understand the all calls in the Atlanta pits anyway), load-in and especially load-out would be a nightmare, and on and on and on.

Just a thought.

Interesting idea but a few points:

For the last four years that I have been at Worlds there has already been a set of inspectors and admin for all four fields so that wouldn't be anything new. Believe it or not the floor of the dome in ATL has always been a nice quite place, much quieter that the pits in the convention center.