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Originally Posted by Otaku
San Fransisco would be nice.
I can almost guarantee that the proper facilities are there, It's a nice city (so long as you stay out of the bad parts), there's plenty of public transportation (I once went from my house to the metreon on only buses, and I live 60mi north of SF), it'd be easier on western teams, etc.
Or hell, anywhere on the west coast would be better (just not alaska, because that'd be a pain the butt for everybody, except the alaskans (even though I would LOVE to go to alaska)).
Or it could switch every year. East coast one year, West coast the next.
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San Francisco would be a relatively bad city. The only thing it has going for it is a large airport nearby.
The only 'suitable' venue would be Moscone Center, which would be entirely unsuitable for a FIRST competition anyways. As has been mentioned before, you ideally need an enclosed stadium with a conference center, or other large pit-sized area attached/next door. Nowhere in the bay area fits that bill.
One (the only?) site I can think of on the west coast that would meet the above criteria is the new Arizona Cardinals stadium. It's enclosed, and the field rolls out to allow other events to be held inside (it's actually a really cool engineering feat. Everyone should check it out, football fans or not). I don't know if it has any kind of attached conference center/facilities though.