[tkwetzel]

I mostly agree with Mr. Wong's suggestion, but I have a few suggestions. Seating reservations could be done online before the event at first come first serve with a limited number of seats per team (no more than the number of people on your team attending and less for HUGE teams). If your team is huge...then you shouldn't really mind breaking up into 2 groups, because each group should still have plenty of people. There should also be some reserved VIP seating in the front and some non-reserved general sesating as well...for non-team associated spectators. Overall, I believe that this would solve many of the problems...and for people who would like a better view, you could move to another seat for your team's matches (like EddieMcD said, people usually let you sit with them if possible) or stand somewhere like down behind the drivers station or elsewhere out of the way of other people. Also, the seating could have pre-planned sections in the middle/front (not by number of people per team) that would be reserved for people in alliances for the finals. There is always a break between seeding matches and quarter-final matches...plenty of time for teams to switch seats to allow the only teams left competing to have better seats for the more entertaining finals. It would be like an extra reward for getting that far. This system probably still have many flaws, but it is just a suggestion waiting for improvements.