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Originally Posted by David Brinza
Our "Bluebearded" friend from the Bionic Bulldogs (Team 60) mentioned to me that Phoenix is building a new indoor football stadium for the Arizona Cardinals. It's amazing that Los Angeles doesn't have a facility that could accommodate the FIRST Championships, but it's true. Until I had heard about the new Cardinals Stadium, I was advocating St. Louis as a potential future site.
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That is correct, and it will be hosting football games this year, meaning it will be totally finished before September of this year. We've always thought it would be an actual possibility since the Cardinal's stadium could hold the fields like Atlanta's stadium does now, and the Glendale Arena (where the Phoenix Coyotes play, literally 2 minutes on foot from the Cardinals stadium since they share the same parking lot) could hold the pits. Most hotels are still at least 15 minutes away right now, but that will change quickly since they will be building new ones to accomidate the Superbowl in 2008 (there's lots of open space around the arena with buildings already going up for this). The only current problem would be how to get robots across the parking lot when it is potentially 100 degrees, but a covered walkway could probably do the trick since it isn't very far. And though it may be close to 100 degrees (more likely 90), you can almost certainly count on it being sunny.
Anway, Atlanta is fine right now. I actually thought everything was extremely close and convenient when our team went there in 2004 (so glad we didn't have to buy transportation there). I just hope it will move somewhere closer to the West sometime, everyone here could really use a break from the expensive Nationals trips.