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Re: The ideal place for the FRC Championships?

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Originally Posted by Michael R. Lee
.... if they moved Championships around the country, they would need to serious revise the rules to attend said competition. I'm not saying moving Championship around is bad but let's say a team from Florida qualifies to go that year but can not go cause they lack the money to get to L.A.! It is already sad enough that teams can not attend despite the fact they qualify.
If a team qualifies one year and is unable to attend, they should be one of the first teams able to go the next year, and that is what this whole tier thing is trying to do. I know that you might win a regional and be unable to go, but it will happen where ever the competition is, so why not move it around to give more people a chance.


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Originally Posted by Wetzel
That said, there is no real good location here to host nationals. There are places to hold a regional, but nothing large enough to host the Championship. Unless you setup like Epcots parking lot, but on the Mall. The exposure there would be HUGE, as would the costs, but the PR would be enormous.
There are places in DC to hold the competition. Mostly there is the new convention center which is enormous (a little smaller than the GWCC). The MCI center is about a block away, but I don't think teams want to be carting there robot a block down city streets. Though I do agree that DC is very crowded in April.
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