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Passing on Nationals w/o indoor fields...
Posted by Joe Johnson at 1/14/2001 9:32 PM EST


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.


In Reply to: Re: INDOOR FIELDS
Posted by Geoff Sensel on 1/14/2001 6:42 PM EST:



The Nationals are an important part of FIRST, but
honestly, 2 years ago I swore that wouldn't go back if
they held them at Disney outdoors in late April ever again.

I am not much of a whiner, generally, but the heat that
year was grim. About 20 people from the teams that
were not in the finals actually watched them live
(Brian Beatty and myself were amount them). The rest
(a few hundred) watched them on the Jumbotron in the pits.

I am a big fan of the indoor pits at Disney. Is there
room for improvement? you bet. But let's not throw the
baby out with the bathwater.

This year, if they do it right, it could be almost as
fun as a regional. With 1/4 of the teams always
playing on the same field and always playing teams from
the same subgroup, I thing that the atmosphere of a
good regional is realistically possible. Let's hope
they do it right.

Joe J.



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