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Re: Tightwad tips for Championship, Atlanta

Our team did a test and found that taking the marta from near our hotel (well into the downtown area) to the stadium, and walking from the hotel to the stadium took just as much time. So if you're not carrying heavy totes or the like, don't pay for the marta pass, and dont get suckered into paying for a 5 day pass or whatever...i did in 2005 and used it twice because i was one of the advance crew and that was before we found out that walking down the marta steps, waiting for the train, and walking up the marta steps took just as much time as walking from our hotel to the arena. but if you DO plan on using the marta, and plan to use it a lot, buy the passes cuz they do save you.

There's a pizza place, papa murphies i think? I cant be sure anymore, down the street from the pit entrance to the GWCC (where the busses drop you off, not where you walk from the stands to the pits). We bought pizza's for our team and two people (me and another person) always went to go get them and walk them back. You can also have them delivered, but we found it takes FOREVER, even if you call 2 hours in advance saying you want them at a certain time. we'd call as we're walking there, wait about 5 minutes while there, then pick them up. It was about $2 a large slice per person, and drinks were often thrown in as i recall, because the pizza guy thought 5 mins of waiting in heat was too long....

one free entertainment event my team did was go to the fountains. Everyone wears swim suits and they jump in the fountains of sentenial park during the synchronized music thing. It can be fun i guess.

other than that, i have no clue.
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