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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto
Hopefully you got to read in the proposal a bit on the venue needs for a 40 team district event (including stands for 1200 people, square footage for field and pits, etc). Maybe someone in another district could enlighten the conversation, but I am not sure that the pits need to be strictly a second gym? I've been to multiple unofficial FRC events where something like a cafeteria/MPR was used as a decent pit space. Maybe that could open up some more options in SoCal (and SD specifically).
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In NE:
North Shore and Rhode Island were held in field houses where everything fit in the one space. Granite State had pits in a cafeteria. I am not familiar with any of the other high school venues. While not a high school, WPI has pits in some weird room that I don't what to call, but is a great example of creative pit layouts. They really crammed pits in every corner they could find for DCMP in 2015.
One other thing to consider for pits is if the school has any large halls or lobbies that they would allow pits in. Even if there isn't enough room for 40 pits, you may have just enough room that you can squeeze the rest in the main gym.