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Originally Posted by JaneYoung
Who is on the court when a member cuts the net at a game? Or... back that up - who rushes the court when a team member cuts the net at a game? There would be 3 nets and 3 teams, minimal, on the field.
From what I've seen from a few regionals, they are still in need for volunteers to help with their events. Will volunteers be in place and be available to help with the passion, excitement, and craziness that could stem from cutting the nets? What happens to the nets on the other side of the field? Do those get cut (trashed), too? Who controls that and how? And while teams are cutting their nets, are they going to be doing a victory dance on the bridges, too?
I've had a little experience with crowd control during regionals and I'm not a fan of large groups of people who don't respect crowd control and create potentially dangerous situations because of what they want to do when they want to do it, individually, and, as a crowd.
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As a Boston sports fan, I have a healthy respect for unruly crowds too. I agree with you, all of those people on the field rioting like Vancouver last summer is probably not a good thing. Don't teams already come onto the field at the end to take pictures on the field? I know when we won us and our alliance partners were the last people out the door. (sorry field crew!
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I think the crowd control questions are ones I can't answer -- FIRST would have to. And since it seems like they've already thought about this and decided they'd rather not let teams take the nets, that's what the official answer will be.