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Re: Championship 2014 Proposal
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Originally Posted by EricLeifermann View Post
The only thing that STL has over ATL is the walk from the pits to the field for both the drive teams and the people who walked from the pits to the stands is MUCH shorter. Otherwise STL is behind ATL by a huge margin.
The other benefit of STL is its location. While it doesn't matter so much to some teams who would have to fly regardless, there are many teams that are able to travel by bus who would have had to fly to ATL, or have a very long bus ride.

781 has travelled overnight on the bus to and from STL the last 2 years they have attended, leaving Tuesday night and arriving Wednesday around midday. When they attended at Epcot in 2002, they also took a bus, but more school/work time was lost for the trip.
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