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Addition to previous post
Posted by Nate Smith, Student on team #74, Holland FIRST Robotics, from Holland High School and Haworth, Inc..
Posted on 4/28/99 6:39 PM MST In Reply to: Re: position of stages posted by Nate Smith on 4/28/99 6:37 PM MST: : : i was just informed by my dad that the reaseon that the stages are positioned like they were because of the mono rails BIG DEAL (sarcastic) the momo rail is going so fast you dont get to see much either form the front of the stage or the back you are going to get the same amt of people coming in that are non-first people in my opinin : : : : Austin Martus : actually, you'd think that they'd get MORE exposure from the monorails if they turned the stages 90 degrees...as it was, all you saw was the huge bleachers set up with a few big stages...you might actually be able to see the field if it was turned... i just thought of a good example of this...watch the ESPN broadcast from last year...coming back from one commercial, they show a pan across one set of bleachers and stage that could have only come from the monorail... |
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Re: Pits were great, venue was the pits...
Posted by Dale, Engineer on team #191, X-Cats`, from Wilson and Xerox.
Posted on 4/27/99 2:25 PM MST In Reply to: Pits were great, venue was the pits... posted by Joe Johnson on 4/26/99 8:25 PM MST: : Hey folks, : While the complex that Disney constructs to host the Nationals is awesome and the pits in particular were truly fantastic, the venues were aweful. : To show you how bad it was, I LOVE this sport, yet I could barely bring myself to stand in that merciless sunshine on the chairs squinting my eyes in order to watch the final matches. : It was HOT! : It was hard to see! : It was hard on the knees! : It was not a spectator friendly sport at all. : The smallest regional had more people watching the finals than watched the National Finals! : It was the worst venue of any of the FIRST events I have ever attended. : In fact, as crazy as I am about this FIRST stuff, I am seriously recommending that our team skip the Nationals next year in favor of another regional if the venue is not significantly improved. : What do other team think? : Joe J. I absolutely agree!! In fact, we had a similar discussion in thinking about doing another regional instead of the nationals for the same reason. Disney is very generous in their commitment, but we want our team to get into the game, and kneeling on the fake grass at 90+ degrees was as insane as trying to see a stage that was cast in darkness relative to the surrounding sunshine. Two serious disappointments in an otherwise excellent sport. |
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Disney are you listening?
Posted by Ken Patton, Engineer on team #65, The Huskie Brigade, from Pontiac Northern High School and GM Powertrain.
Posted on 4/27/99 5:58 PM MST In Reply to: Pits were great, venue was the pits... posted by Joe Johnson on 4/26/99 8:25 PM MST: Wow. Everyone agrees on the problems at Disney. I know our team has been ripping on the venue in our feedback forms since 1997. I talked to a Disney rep for a while this year (she was at the last minute making us sign a ridiculously tight license agreement for our satellite broadcast - initially they weren't going to allow us to make tapes to send to prospective teams - what a joke), and she was very proud of the pits improvements. I told her, yeah the pits are nice, but go to Chicago and Ypsi (IMO the best venues and production) and watch the show, thats the venue/atmosphere that Disney needs to replicate. She didn't promise to go.... You'd think Disney would be ahead of us on all this. I watched the semis and finals while standing on a chair about ten rows back. It was a pretty good view, and I could usually see the puck. There was nobody behind me. A couple of times a Disney person told us to sit down... I'd still take the team to Florida. Its a location that gets people's attention. Maybe we need a bunch of regionals (one per weekend for six weeks) at a small WDW site to allow a whole bunch of teams to go to Florida, and a National Championship at some other location (maybe a traveling one, like NCAA's). That might work for when we get a lot more teams. Ken |
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