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Originally Posted by CassCity2081
I dont know how other people felt about it, but I enjoyed the fields in the pits. I was in Curie division and so I was in the pits for two days. It was a much shorter commute to get to and from the field and I was able to get to my scouts quicker for information on the teams we would be playing. I think that it was better than many people thought it would be.
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I agree that the shorter commute to the pit fields was nice. However, I think the negatives overweigh the positive. The bleachers were terrible:
* The leg room MAY have been appropriate for a 6th grade class; it was painful for me & I'm not that tall. Actually, I thought the legroom in the dome was also bad as compared to other stadiums, but it was better than those bleachers.
* No backs to the bleachers. Seats in the dome had backs....
* At least in the Curie bleachers there weren't enough aisles, making getting to the middle seats difficult and somewhat dangerous. Someone ran some caution tape up the middle of our section on Saturday; that helped the difficulty part but was possibly even more dangerous.
* People walking by & standing at the edges of the fields blocked the view of the lowest levels of seats. This is a seating fault; we should expect people to be walking by & standing on the field during matches.
I almost would have rather been in the pits all three days (assuming adequate seating) instead of being tempted with Friday in the dome & then being thrown back to the pits for Saturday. But I would have rather had all teams be given the opportunity to have had all of their matches in a true Championship venue.
Overall I think it was a good event. I think the issues (and yes, there were more, as are being pointed out all over the place) are correctable, and next year the St. Louis folks will be putting on an even better event.