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Originally Posted by TheCascadeKid
What about a lottery system? Teams submit how many seats they need, then they are reserved. Period. No rush for anything since seats are predetermined.
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Originally Posted by EricH
I'd prefer 7, 6 plus one sub/data person/messenger.
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Frank,
Thanks for watching CD as an information source. Those of us out here really do appreciate that, more than we've already said.
On the point of seating, mad rushes, saving seats and safety: I strongly suggest you consider reserved seating and a lottery system for scouts for each division. The seats all have numbers, let's use that. I agree with Eric's suggestion of 7 tickets per team (we use 7 scouts for every match).
Each team will get 7 assigned seats in the 'scouting' section, which are the lower concourse sections that have good visibility of the entire field. Which exact seats a team gets is random, but your team is in a group, and these are the same seats for all of CMP. The rest of the team sits elsewhere.
Teams that don't use 7 scouts can use their 7 seats for whatever they wish, except that no items that can block one's view are allowed (large signs, etc.), and standing during a match is prohibited - after all, we're scouting here....
Some basic research: Foe example, sections 105, 107 and 109 of the Jones Dome are in a corner with good visibility of a division field. Each has about 21 rows, and if each row has an average of 14 seats, it means these sections can accommodate 123 teams -
more than enough. If there are more seats per row (and I think there are) then either teams get more assigned seats (8 or 9 or 10, whatever) OR the last few rows are not assigned.
Power is a perennial issue, 1676 brings its own power as needed. If no AC outlets are available, we use battery and an AC inverter to run the wired router, server and printer used by the scouting team.
As for the rest of the mad dash, real crowd control through carefully defined entry bottlenecks would be fine.