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Originally Posted by Chris Hibner

Here is what I would REALLY like to see for a future championship.

1) Get rid of domes. They're such big caverns that the atmosphere is usually bad, the site lines are bad, etc.

2) Find a convention center next to a 20k-25k seat basketball arena.

3) Put one field in the arena and three fields in the pits (hey, I loved the pit fields - just get more seats).

4) Cycle the divisions through the arena field (thurs afternoon Curie, Friday morning, Newton, etc.) and the rest of the matches on the smaller fields. Remember the old days when they did this at EPCOT? It worked just fine.

5) Awards ceremony and Einstein matches in the basketball area, which would be JAMMED PACKED with spectators. The view would be good, and the atmosphere would be absolutely electric. It would feel like the NCAA basketball championship or game 7 of the Stanley Cup.

Wow that is a really awesome idea. I too was fine with the pit fields and this would make Einstein and playing in the arena so amazing. You could even pull this off in a dome by filling up the field with bleachers considering FIRST is probably already locked into a few years in St. Louis.