[EricH]

Originally Posted by Colin P

If you plan on spending all of your time in the stands, you're waisting your trip.

Would you rather just stay in the hotel and watch the matches online for scouting?

No, you're scouting. Watching online makes scouting VERY difficult, at least partly because the camera people love to insert driver's station views and lots of film of the one or two robots that flipped 30 seconds into the match.

I planned on spending a good 75% of my time in the stands, and usually spent more, when I was scouting. The remaining 25% was typically on Thursday (practice day, for those Michiganders that haven't been to a regional event).

I'm certain the pit-field seating will work itself out; how crowded it gets will be a function of how many scouts there are and how big the playing teams are. (Hey, idea! Finally, the scouts get their own section! Just take a portion of one set of bleachers!)

I think the complaints are more over the fact that there are two fields in the pits, when there's a ton of space in the Dome that's being used for ???????? event (which everyone is figuring out is some form of concert). A concert at a robotics competition that displaces the robotics competition has the potential to turn into a robotics competition at a concert.