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Re: Suggestions about champs?

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Originally Posted by Phil 33
The route the robots and drive team took were the shortest by far. Here's a question, why limit their access for only drive team and robots? Remember in Houston last year, people and robots took the same route all the way until they reached the stadium and then separated. Why couldn't the short route have been open to all. Then before the entrance to the stadium floor have a gate for robots and drive team only, then route all the other people up to the main levels. This alone would have made the trip a ton shorter. Having several routes open would have controlled the crowds better. It's a lot of walking, and not every one of us has a Segway.
Maybe they can consider allowing only spectators with team shirts (i.e. the team members) to take the shorter path into the stands, splitting the path so robots don't have to fight for room. This can help the scouts and other team members get back and forth for matches/pit work. But I still stand by allowing 3 pit crew to go to the field.

If the Dome has a shorter path for all people, that would be great. I don't know the facility or what type of "way" up to the stands they have other than the skinny stairs up the wall inside the dome.
I noticed in the "end zones" there were no spectators, so maybe they could add those mobile stairs to a few of those openings up to the stands.

The only issue I could see with having the robot and spectator path be the same as the short robot walk is that it's not a hugely wide area. Robots and driveteams need to move quickly, and pass each other in opposite direction, and they should not be late or slowed down by thousands of people going to the stands. If they were to do that, they would need to enforce and split that path into clearly marked sides - one side for robots only - like they have elsewhere.
However, I could easily see that short path getting way more people congested than the escalators did. There would be less room for the people to be spread out, plus it might encourage people to go back and forth a lot more which adds to the congestion.

If they can solve the problem of getting pit crew and some other team members back and forth quicker, that would be a huge improvement, I think that's the biggest issue. While the extra spectators are important, I don't think we need to cramp the robot path with them, because I don't think they need to be back and forth as often.

I think this horse has been beaten dead, unless there are fresh ideas of how to traffic the people, but they don't need any more complaints about it. What are other constructive suggestions besides the long walk?
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