Kim,
Thanks for posting your proposal. Ultimately prearranging block seats will create its own issues. I think a limited scouting section would be good. But that would still require me to save contiguous seats for my scouts.
The root cause in my opinion is teams want to sit together, the rule says you can't save seats. These are opposed forces if you take a legalistic approach.
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Originally Posted by EricH
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All that said, I think there is a solution. It's in the "open seating" model--and yet, it's not in that model at all. It's in the people.
What if...
--Everyone got in line at the doors and walked, not ran, to the seats/pits?
--Seat savers took a smaller amount of seats, leaving some on the aisles and other "boundaries" as "mixing" seats?
--Other teams and spectators were welcomed into the "mixing" seats, not chased away by seat savers?
--Teams that stand through their matches intentionally took the top seats or seats around the sides?
What if FIRSTers actually practiced some Gracious Professionalism in the stands? And yes, there are teams that do that now. How about some of the rest of the teams joining in?
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I agree with EricH's approach. Some seats need to be saved for a group. You have to train your team AND your visitors to follow these practical rules.