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Originally Posted by FrankJ
The story I was told and have no reason to doubt... The Columbus district was held in a multi purpose ice hockey arena. Bottom layer is always ice. The assumption was that the regular covering would be sufficient to keep the ice ice and separate from the field turned out to be incorrect. IE spots of water here and there. The issue was discovered too late to change venues. The only option was to cover the ice with the arena football field and then to cover that with carpet. Solved the water game problem, but made for a bouncy field. The Columbus district has a different venue this year that does not start with ice. Large areas of ice in south Georgia is some what of an oxymoron. The best place for ice in south Georgia is in tea.
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Ice is sketchy for many other reasons. The Autodesk regional used to be held at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland. It's a hockey rink no they would put a hard plastic cover over. The thing is ice and plastic are both insulators which caused the feild to act as a giant capacitor. This really became a problem in 2009 when the static charge the robots created eventually discharged frying the FMS. From then on when ever Memorial Coliseum was used for a Regional or PNW DCMP it is in the contract to remove the ice from under the plastic. So that is my horror story of why ice should NEVER be under the feild regardless of if it is melting or not.