[Jillian B.]

I definetly agree with your view, and I won't go against it. Fortunately, BAE had the great idea of purposely allowing teams to reserve a section (even though it involved standing in front of the arena in line, dashing in to write my team number on a white board with an arena map, and then sprinting to my section to reserve enough seats to handle my team, and then agreeing to share it with another team). The idea was that you only took what was needed, and thats what I did. There was enough seats for the necessary parents, sponsors, etc. Yet pit people were not included in the count, cause they didn't need seats. Another thing was, as the day went on, I agreed to let other teams make use of open seats.

I did have several people at the BAE Regional actually come up and tell me what a <explitive deleted> I was for saving 5 rows (about 25 seats) for the people who came in seconds later, but then again they grabbed an even larger section which they hardly used, mostly for the "CLOSET" syndrome. My team of 35 students (not including parents, etc.) didn't even have enough seats.

I do agree though. Only take the seats you need, no more.

How do the nationals work? I'm guessing teams do the same thing.

-Jill