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Originally Posted by Cartwright
I think that the FIRST Regionals should organize seating into sections for each team. Then have small sections divided for teams for scouting purposes. Then have another large section for visitors and the general crowd. Yes this would be a little extra work, but it would solve the saving seat problem while organizing the teams into recognizable areas enabling better visitation, etc.
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I think this would work... in theory.
A great thing to do if you wanted to do this, would be to approach your regional planning commitee with a possible plan with the seating assigned, and then ask them to try & give it a beta run next year.
If it works, then we can maybe expect it to continue across more regionals.
If it doesn't, then at least you tried to come up with a great solution.
Most things like this that go on at regionals are tested in a small percentage of places before they go "mainstream", or are tried at one regional, and relayed to others as an option.
Maybe this could be one test for next year just to say we tried it and see how it works out.
Another thing to remember is not all regionals are created equally.
Every site of a regional event has specific issues they deal with, but they all have common ones as well.
One regional may only allow say 20 seats per team if you split them up evenly, and another could offer 100 per team if given an even split.