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Originally Posted by Garret
Thought this was slightly relevant, but at our Super Regional in Oakland, CA, our FTC team got to witness a homeless man pull a knife and start threatening people right outside the restaurant where we were at. Additionally right across the street from where this was going on there was another FTC team waiting to get into another restaurant. This all occured about 100-150ft outside of the hotel/venue where the tournament was at.
For some of our team members that was a very traumatic experience that turned that "championship" experience into a rather negative one as opposed to positive.
This experience has me very concerned about FIRST moving champs to a city that is supposed to be more dangerous that Oakland. The fact that just because they personally haven't experienced anything there is one of the lamest excuses I have ever heard (my personal opinion).
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I understand your concern. In recent years however, Detroit has hosted numerous MLB playoff games, NFL games, NHL playoff games, a Superbowl, an MLB allstar game, the world's most attended autoshow (yearly), a yearly Thanksgiving Day Parade, NCAA Basketball, Hockey, and Football bowl games.
Numbers can be scary things - especially since the news likes to ignore them. Claiming Detroit is the worst in the country is far more attention grabbing than saying "Detroit has 45 murders per 100,000 people, while New Orleans has 41, Newark has 40, St. Louis has 37, and Baltimore has 37." A whopping difference of .008%.
If you get into comparitive statistics between other things that might kill you, it gets even less scary. If you've been to St. Louis, you've been to Detroit.