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Originally Posted by Kims Robot
Be careful, this is all STILL speculation. Even though FIRST has now announced the Will.i.am concert, we still have NO confirmation as to why the decision was made to move the fields. Looking at the photos in Bills blog, for some reason, that Dome seems to look a lot smaller than the Georgia Dome.
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It seems highly unlikely that FIRST would choose and contract for 3 years with a venue that cannot hold the event. The EJ Dome is a football field dome like the Georgia Dome is.
I'm sure when presented with the opportunity for this concert it was a very difficult offer to turn down, and as I said there is nothing wrong with incorporating Will.i.am's support into the event somehow. I understand the concept of attracting kids to FIRST, promotion, mainstreaming, etc. I'm just saying that defending STEM as our first cultural priority and not allowing the pull of pop culture to obscure our priorities is supposed to be the central idea of FIRST, and scrambling the FIRST Champs to make room for a concert sends the opposite symbolic message.