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Originally Posted by Holtzman
You're calling a team out for not being graciously professional when you’re preventing potentially hundreds of people from seeing the match? There are 80’ish other teams in the division who have just as much right to watching as you do. It’s not just “your” match.
If everybody sits down, everybody can see. If your team stands, then nobody behind you can see. If you absolutely have to stand during your match, then sit at the back where you won't block anyone's view. A little common courtesy can go a long way.
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I agree with both sides. I want to be able to stand and cheer my team. But I want to be able to see!
Perhaps they could open the second level to scouts only. In many district events we put our scouts upstairs where they could sit closer together and work. Then they can always see, and people downstairs can stand and cheer. I don't like the idea of splitting teams up though, but really our scouts don't have the time to cheer much
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There's no way to change the seating - it's a fundamental flaw in using a football arena with flat seating when you should be using a basketball or hockey arena with sharper seating. It's a question of the size of the fields - the angle of the seating is in direct relation to the size of the playing field in most pro sports venues. Unfortunately having 5 fields plus vex etc on the same floor requires a footprint that venue with better seating simply doesn't have.
So I guess there's no way to fix the seating, other than moving the field further from the interior wall, and potentially moving scouts upstairs.
I have to admit, expecting a team that is in a major match not stand and scream their heads off is a bit unreasonable. In fact, I can't think of a single professional event where people don't stand during an intense exciting moment. This isn't chess. The problem is in the field arrangement, not in the spectator's emotions.