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Disney are you listening?
Posted by Ken Patton, Engineer on team #65, The Huskie Brigade, from Pontiac Northern High School and GM Powertrain.
Posted on 4/27/99 5:58 PM MST
In Reply to: Pits were great, venue was the pits... posted by Joe Johnson on 4/26/99 8:25 PM MST:
Wow. Everyone agrees on the problems at Disney. I know our team has been ripping on the venue in our feedback forms since 1997. I talked to a Disney rep for a while this year (she was at the last minute making us sign a ridiculously tight license agreement for our satellite broadcast - initially they weren't going to allow us to make tapes to send to prospective teams - what a joke), and she was very proud of the pits improvements. I told her, yeah the pits are nice, but go to Chicago and Ypsi (IMO the best venues and production) and watch the show, thats the venue/atmosphere that Disney needs to replicate. She didn't promise to go.... You'd think Disney would be ahead of us on all this.
I watched the semis and finals while standing on a chair about ten rows back. It was a pretty good view, and I could usually see the puck. There was nobody behind me. A couple of times a Disney person told us to sit down...
I'd still take the team to Florida. Its a location that gets people's attention. Maybe we need a bunch of regionals (one per weekend for six weeks) at a small WDW site to allow a whole bunch of teams to go to Florida, and a National Championship at some other location (maybe a traveling one, like NCAA's). That might work for when we get a lot more teams.
Ken
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