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Originally Posted by Dominick Ferone
They are only 147 new york teams base on this http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...highlight=5030.
With about 50 of them being from upstate at least. If you look at all the teams attending just one regional, yes a lot are from NYC or Long Island because this year became harder to attend second regionals with the influx of out of state teams. So holding districts would help lots of teams but we can not just ignore that up past the city has a lot of teams that do pretty well each year.
Also basing upon upstate has stronger teams but that may be since most compete at 2 regionals so they have time to improve. We don't need to argue which area is better but agree upon that the district model would help out a lot of teams, if not all to show off how much they can do. As well as provide a team with well deserved awards.
My question now is how big of a gym is needed for an average sized district? Does anyone know how much seating and floor space is recommended? |
Yes for the 2015 season there were 147 teams in NY, for some reason a number of the public information pages on the FIRST site include teams that either dropped out in the past or are rookies that did not complete registration.
For the PNW the guidelines are that the school has a gym with a standard sized HS basketball court which is 84 x 50 with seating for about 40 people per team.
The school also needs an auxiliary gym or a commons/lunch room that has aprox 150 sq ft per team plus space for pit admin and preferably inspection which is just a few hundred more sq ft. That 150 sq ft number is to account for isle space. Additional space may be needed based on the layout of the area, for example if there are lots of doors or other areas that can not be blocked or will be needed to store the mats, tables ect more space will be needed for the pits. In at least one instance the inspection station was in a wide area in the hall.
There also needs to be space for a practice field which is roughly another 1200 sq ft. In the PNW district we have had the practice field in the pits in a couple of instances. In others where the main gym is large enough the practice field was behind the pipe and drape that is behind the FTA desk.
Most schools do not have enough circuits in the area for the pits so there needs to be an area where a rental generator can be placed relatively closely.
For the events at HS in WA most of the schools that were used have ~1500 students but one of the events was in a school with ~900 students. In general the seating in the gym is relative to the student population.