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Unread 05-08-2007, 10:04
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Re: Championships location from 07 and onwards

Having the event at Disney in a parking lot boggles my mind.

I'm not sure that I would call Atlanta 'dangerous' compared to many other large cities. It certainly requires a bit of caution amongst all attendees, especially visitors that are not familiar with the city. The danger thing is a relative thing, to itself and to other cities. That whole area from Northside to North to downtown has been changing and upgrading fairly quickly over the last 15 years. And it's good to see that.

I think it would be great (no matter what city it is in) that there is a higher level of police presence strolling around the outside areas. If nothing else it will help out of towners feel safer.

I was in Indy a few years ago and I'm interested in seeing how the new facilities pan out. On a side point, in the RCA dome is a huge US Flag hanging from the ceiling of the dome. The best I can tell the people that made the flag didn't know what they were doing and have the dimensions (aspect ratio) all wrong. There is actually a federal spec for that and I'm surprised that got it wrong in a high profile building like that.

If most people fly then the event should be in the NYC area. But for a lot of non-northeast people NYC could be way more intimidating than ATL.

If most people drive, then Indy is more central. But all this chit-chat assumes there is a real need to change and the need may not really be there. If most teams now have the knowhow to get the ATL thing done then everyone doesn't have to relearn things for a new city.

This isn't the best thread for this but I have to post 2 gripes about the Championship and it is about the teams, not FIRST.

1) I couldn't believe the rudeness and attitudes from some parents on some teams regarding seat saving. They would carve out vast swaths of seats with none of their people in sight and didn't want to give up 5 seats for 15 minutes.

2) During the awards ceremony, the number of people that started leaving before the Chairman's Award was given.

I don't think it violates a principle of gracious professionalism to point out these two egregious behaviors.

We, all teams collectively, need to work on our manners.

My 57 cents.

Ed