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Originally posted by D.J. Fluck


Ive been told multiple times that Disneyland in California does not have the capacity to hold that many people and they dont have a venue that was as good as epcot...

Time to revive the alternate championship location thread??
Disneyland does not have any room at all. DJ's right.

Disneyland's former parking lot is now Disney's California Adventure, The Grand Californian Hotel, and and Downtown Disney. Parking is handled by several smaller satellite lots and a large "Mickey & Friends" parking structure.

However, the Anaheim Convention Center is across the street.

Again, I'll restate that I strongly believe that moving the Championship Event to any generic city, arena, or site will be severely detrimental to FIRST's 'mission'.

To involve as many students as possible, and especially as FIRST continues to grow, the organization needs as much exposure and support as possible. The scope of this isn't entirely evident to most everyone I've ever spoken to, and I'd anticipate that to be the case throughout the rest of the population. You can throw around numbers all you'd like, but there's very, very little that paints a clear picture of the true scope of the competition.

When you say, however, that FIRST is the largest event housed at Walt Disney World, you send that message loud and clear. Everybody knows where Walt Disney World is, everyone knows what it looks like, and everyone knows of the reputation (albeit faltering) for high quality, family-oriented entertainment and programming.

When you say that 450 teams from high schools across the nation (or world, for that matter), gather at RFK Stadium for a Championship event, it doesn't hold the same impact. Silverdome what? The Phoenix Convention center? Woop-dee-doo. There aren't many names that you can drop that are bigger than Walt Disney World.
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