[Rick TYler]

The championships are scheduled in Atlanta for 2010, according to the GWCC website: http://www.gwcc.com/calendar/gwcc.html.

Building a new stadium is really, really, hugely expensive. Even with FIRST's steadily-increasing cash horde, there's no way they will be able to afford the multiple-hundreds of millions it would cost. Just as a point of comparison, the estimated cost of building the Seattle Sonics a new facility in Renton (a city to the southeast of Seattle) was $400 million. The new owner snuck the team out of town at least in part because that wasn't going to be good enough. It simply isn't going to happen, and even if the money is available I think it would NOT be furthering the goals of FIRST to spend the money this way. I'd rather fund 500,000 Vex or 25,000 VRC teams in 25,000 schools in North America than squander $400 million on a facility that is easily duplicated each year with a comparatively modest rental fee.