[krtanjek]

We have attended the past 3 years, and have always been able to park our RV in the parking lot right outside the main entrance to the Dome which had an attendant in the lot. This year, the attendant said that any oversize vehicles had to park in the team parking lot where the trailers were located. We saw 2-3 security guards in that lot and had not heard about prior break-ins in previous years so we thought with security at the parking lot we would be ok just like previous years. The break-in happened in daylight not evening. This leads me to two conclusions, people have not reported to FIRST so FIRST was not able to coordinate proper security or the security guards just didn't care and let anyone do what they wanted in that parking lot.

Needless to say it is over and yes they took over $15k worth of computers, tablets, electronics, and all our clothes, but we are safe and that all can be replaced. It is just disappointing that with the 200 extra teams and roughly $1M more for those teams FIRST could not coordinate better security on the outside of the dome as they did with the badges on the inside.