Can we talk about field location? (This may also help out HOF teams)
I haven't seen it posted here yet, and it seems to be one of the bigger problems with housing an event like FIRST in a football stadium.
To get to the Curie field you had to walk all the way around the stadium, and it just feels unnecessary. Why not put Einstein where Curie is currently and move the 4 main fields closer to the pits.
I mocked up this proposal. The four small blue boxes are the division fields, Einstein is given half of the stadium for floor space and seating.
This was not initially part of my idea, but it could work: put the HOF team's pits in the red box area of my map. This would give those teams "priority" for getting to matches and they could have bigger pits to accomodate their larger displays. It would be made accessible to the public from the stands and with the proper signage in the concourse, any spectator could walk down and visit the HOF teams.
I think that it will help ease flow of traffic to Einstein during elims, and it will make "getting good seats" less of a priority, because there are more sections opened for Einstein. Finding HOF teams in the pits is difficult if you are new to CMP, so putting them out in the open will help draw attention to their pit displays and their team in general, as they did win the most prestigious award in FIRST.