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At the Pacific Northwest regional, I don't believe it ever got too loud to talk or think, at least in the pits.

Even so, for convenience's sake our team had our strategy meetings at least once or twice a day in the hotel room of our lead mentor. The hotel was a short walk and an even shorter drive from the stadium, so we were able to move back and forth between them relatively easily. That was where we discussed game strategy and scouting, so we didn't have to compete for volume in the pits. I would recommend this for all teams, it made a nice wrap-up and debrief meeting for the team, there were pretty much enough places for people to sit, and we didn't have people wandering away randomly, as there was nowhere to go. This worked great for our team. The only way I see it not working was if a team was too large to fit in a single hotel room. In that case, I suppose it would work well to have a conference room.