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Originally Posted by Solidstate89

As said in a couple of other posts. Stuff like this is a two-fold problem. Not only are there people who are totally oblivious to the needs of those around them but you have a bottleneck affect where everyone is forced through one entrance.

Every morning at FLR (and pretty much every other regional, but FLR was the only one I attended all 3 days of) everyone lined up in the overcrowded atrium waiting to get in. Three sets of triple doors (that opened IN towards the crowd I might add...) was not enough to relieve the congestion.

To keep problems like this from continuing to happen you need effort from both the teams themselves (whether from Mentors or team leadership that discourage this) and from FIRST itself at every event to better handle such bottleneck congestion. And I just want to make it clear, even with the problem of forcing everyone through one entrance, that's absolutely no excuse for running people over. However if given multiple entrances along with a different mentality from the team members themselves, issues like this can be solved.

I think FIRST should make an announcement during Kick Off or before the first event to remind them to not rush into the venue and run over people or something like that.