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Originally Posted by bduddy

There was an announcement about this at SVR, and I suspect at other regionals as well because they said it came from FIRST HQ. Basically, they said there had been a tornado and that FIRST was monitoring the situation, blah blah blah. The damage wasn't even severe enough to stop the NCAA game (only delay it), so I can't imagine it'll affect the Championships, but...

Actually, the damage was fairly bad, and that game should have been stopped. The only reason it was continued was because the SEC is under a time constraint to get its tournament finished before the NCAA announces its selections for the tournament - the remaining games were moved to a different location as the NCAA deemed the Georgia Dome unsafe. Just outside the Georgia Dome there was quite a bit of damage, and there have been numerous reports of baseball-size hail in the area today.