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Originally Posted by skrussel
To teams who continue to save seats at competitions:
Puh-leeeze stop it!
There is room for everyone.
As 9 of my team members sat down in open seats to watch the matches at GLR, we were actually cursed at and told to leave by several members of another participating team who claimed the territory as their own. Parents on this team appeared to condone this behavior.
The offending team will be attending the National Championship, and I hope they calm down and learn to display decent behavior by then.
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I know what you are talking about. At Stl, would take a break from working on the bot (when everything was OK, at least) to go watch some matches. I would go into the stands, find an EMPTY ROW, sit down, only to have some lady from THREE ROWS UP yell at me for sitting in her team's section!
There are no assigned team sections!
Am I against saving seats? YES! there are not enough seats for every single person there to have a personal reserved seat! there are enough seats for everyone who wants to sit to sit, but not enough seats that everyone who wants to sit can have one, and everyone working in the pits can have one, etc. etc.
please, stop saving seats. When I am looking for a seat to watch elimanation and there are nearly no open seats, to find an empty section (no jackets, etc.) only to be told not to sit there by some person who apparently thinks they own the building . . jeez! I wound up sitting behind the driver's station, where the view is blocked by the ball holder, only to watch those 'reserved' seats sit empty for the entire elimination rounds.
Argh. If I hadn't wanted to avoid a scene I would have told those designated 'seat-savers' to go **** themselves.
Putting a jacket over a chair is one thing, but putting an adult in the stands to tell non-team members not to sit in a section is downright wrong. Grrr.
About gracious proffessionalism. I was entering early in the morning on Saturday, and held the door for a couple guys pushing a tool cart. As they passed, they said something about that being GP. Is the world so wrong that holding a door for a couple guys pushing a cart is special? Isn't that supposed to be normal and ordinary and whatnot?