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Originally Posted by ZehP
I'm pretty curious about how this event will work. The venue, listed as Mattamy Athletic Centre, has a basketball court with seating for 1000 on the second floor and a hockey rink with seating for 2500 on the third floor. Their website has pictures showing the ice rink covered and in use for other events. There's a lot of space on the fourth floor, which circles the rink.The venue also has Google Streetview of some of the interior, but I don't see any large ramps or a way to move robots between floors other than the elevators. Load-in might be fun if you're limited to what would fit in a standard elevator (unless I'm missing a freight elevator or some large ramps). I'm concerned about queuing involving moving between floors, assuming that the pits are in the basketball court and the field is over the hockey rink or vice versa.
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I have no insight into how this regional will run, I'm sure there are elevators between the floors. I'm just really excited by the location, right in the heart of downtown Toronto, the 'Mattamy Athletic Centre' is actually the converted old Maple Leaf Gardens, holding a regional at the Gardens is going to be amazing (maybe we can put up some new banners
). Congrats to FIRST Robotics Canada for getting access to this great space!