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Originally Posted by JVGazeley

I suspect it may already be being acted upon but NYC probably needs a bigger venue.

The pits might fit a couple more teams in at a squeeze and the practice area is outside as it is... not good if it's raining and wind is a problem when it comes to throwing balls.

Hey my friends from across the pond Team 759 - Have no fear the NYC Coordinators do realize that the pits are somewhat overwhelmingly small for 33 teams. The NYC regional staff is looking for a larger area to house the regional but there is very lil to do b/c all the major venus like for instance Madison Square Garden have poor parking and a very large traffic situation. Rumor has it that probably next year or so that the regionals will have a new venue. It will be on the west side of manhattan just like Riverbank State Park. The Area in question from what I heard from a somwhat reliable source will be the Jacob Javitts Center. It is ALOT bigger then where we are now and parking is somewhat better the only problem is, is that there are NO Stands in the area at all, This building is used mainly for Exhibitions of all sorts. Maybe the planning staff will conjure up a way so that roll away stands get be rented and put in place but from my experience of being there its alot BIGGER. =) Now for the practice field, yes it was an extremely bad idea to have it assembled outside (which is why NYC Regionals NEVER Had a practice field) from what I understand that field was brought by another team and assembled (it was not FIRST's field) and I say this only b/c the head of the FIRST event staff told me to ask teams to take it for themselves if they wanted it. At the conclusion of the Regional the practice field had been dismantled by the competing teams and each team took a piece or an entire team took the entire field. Either which way it was not FIRSTs field or at least so I have been told. They should not be held accountable for that minor discrepinacy.