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Originally Posted by dcarr
Aside from literally ticketing seats, does anyone have observations or best practices from other events that involve "first come, first serve" seating? Not sure what kind of events those might be, but I think we need something better than what we have. At the same time I think it's vital that the ability for teams to sit and cheer together be maintained.
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At the Granite State Regional, they had a decent sized section front and center that was set aside for the teams in the current match. I didn't find out about it until Saturday, but it seems like a good idea. Maybe the whole team (for large teams) would not fit there but at least each team could have a representation in that excellent viewing area. This idea could, for example, solve issues with those coming up from the pits to watch their team's match... and therefore seats for them would not need to be saved in the rest of the stands. Has any other regional tried this?
I also like the idea of a reserved section for scouters from each team (although 10 per team sounds excessive since there are only 6 robots on the field at a time). The issue I don't have a solution for with this is that there are 100 teams in a division at Champs which would result in 600 seats being reserved front (actually middle to back of lowest section is actually a better view for scouting) and center. If there are teams who are not using these seats then those prime seats are wasted. Maybe a registration of the number of scouting seats that you need (up to a maximum of 6-7) would work. Then seats would not be wasted.