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Originally Posted by northstardon
While I love the location, I'm uncertain of the logistics. The Minneapolis Convention Center is more than a mile away from the new skyway-connected Vikings stadium site. That's a really long round-trip if the plan is to follow the St. Louis model, and put playing fields in a stadium, and 800 pits in convention area space.
On the other hand, the drive teams might love navigating their carts though the crowded Mpls skyway system during the business day. It'd be like that scene in the "Mighty Ducks" movie, only with robots instead of rollerblades.
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I'd have to agree with you here, Don. Minneapolis/St. Paui area simply has too many logistical issues to host Champs here in its current format. If we were cool with just being in the MCC, it might be workable, but the new stadium is just too far away.
With regards to the promotion/relegation system, I haven't made up my mind about two championships, much less how assignment needs to work. I'd be worried that nobody is really getting what they want with the system-- die-hard competitiors aren't necessarily getting their best robots, and everyone else isn't necessarily getting to see any of the top 5% of teams that I'd say generates 95% of our inspiration. I'd echo earlier sentiments of this turning one of our championships very quickly into some sort of ghetto for teams who are perpetually on the edge of greatness.
In any case, I sincerely hope we only have to deal with this question until 2020.