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Re: "Louisville trying to steal robotics competition from St. Louis" Article

I found out that Indy does in fact a tunnel from Lucas Oil to the convention center. http://visitindy.com/web_files/map/D...ks_c012711.pdf

I did have an entire thing almost completely typed up with pluses and minuses of the five cities, but my computer froze and I had to restart it, and I'm too lazy to type up the whole thing again. My personal ranking of where it should be is Indy, St. Louis/Atlanta (don't care which), then Louisville. I know that the Indy Airport is small and doesn't serve a lot of places, but the city would really get behind it, and with the 12 hotels and the Circle Center Mall all connected by the skywalk and 2 more right by those plus 3 by the stadium, weather and transportation in the city wouldn't be that bad of an issue. I went to Indy for the 2010 Final Four and they did a great job. My coach and I both would like it to be there.

My other idea (mostly joking, of course, unless people would actually want it) is that Kansas City, Kansas could host it, using the Kansas Speedway's infield as pits and Sporting Park for the fields, since we never even get close to filling up the stands and they are next door to each other, literally. The reason championships requires the NFL stadiums, in my mind, is that not many other places have the floor space we need for 5 complete fields and stands. Sporting Park would have the floor space for it, and with 20,000+ seats, it has the seats for it too. The airport serves lots of cities, and we have a lot of sponsors located in KC. Of course, both the Speedway and Sporting Park are outdoors and our hotel rooms are spread out over KCK and KCMO, with no real public transport infrastructure.
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