[PayneTrain]

I like to imagine that FIRST will be taking the opportunity next year to improve the way the Hall of Fame works and maybe to a lesser extent, those vying for the CCA that year. After you pass through the safety glass check at the designated FRC doors in the pit and move into Hall 4, you see the Hall of Fame. It is a line of spaces (I like the idea of double pit sizes) that spits Hall 4 diagonally. The pits for the first 2 or three divisions sit in Hall 3 and the remainder of Hall 4, and the other 2 or 3 divisions rest in Hall 5 and the remainder of Hall 4. You walk down the line that starts with the 1992 winner and go down the aisle until you get to the most recent winner, then maybe cap of the Hall of Fame's Walk of Fame with a stage and lounge where the teams can present themselves to others. The Hall of Fame teams, after years of under-appreciation and 2011 levels of neglect are the centerpiece fo the FRC pits, as they should be. The human pathways ride along the walls of the exhibit halls closest to the common areas of the convention center, with the pits of RCA winning teams all right off the pathway. Hall of Fame teams would not be in their divisions anymore, but the RCA teams would serve to be the anchors of their divisions, wit hthe yongest teams simply running (I mean WALKING! WALK IN THE PITS) down the line until they get to the RCA teams anchoring the division.

There are a lot of nice things that FIRST cna do when FRC has the dome and center to itself, and I hope this is one of them