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Re: Championship 2008 - Atlanta - Your Thoughts Please

Here is an idea - in fact a GP idea to make sure our FTC and FLL brethren get their due.

We need 4 divisions spread across 8 fields.

Keep the dome just like it is. Change nothing there.

The 4 divisions and the 8 arenas

Newton(a) - Dome
Newton(b) - GWCC
Curie(a) - Dome
Curie(b) - GWCC
Archimedes(a) - Dome
Archimedes(b) - GWCC
Galileo(a) - Dome
Galileo(b) - GWCC

So if my team was in Curie I would be plenty happy if we toggled around and played some matchs in the dome and some in the gwcc.

The GWCC is huge, larger than many people realize. We had only 1 of 4 halls in the GWCC building C.

If you really want to see how big this place is just look here.
http://www.gwcc.com/eventplanners/floor_plans2.html

We had C1, B1, and B2.

IMHO if we could go back to last years deal with FLL, FTC, and FRC inside of C1 and C2 AND use B1/B2 to hold the (b) series courts then we would still have the 4 divisions, a lot more matchs, more satisfactory prelimins, and give the FLL and FTC some good GP without giving up many matches in the dome.

Right now I think we play 7 or 8 ? FRC matches in the dome, going forward it would be about 5 or 6 in the dome and 5 or 6 in the GWCC.

I would be perfectly happy with that.
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