Championship 2011 - St Louis - Your Thoughts Please?

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Originally Posted by Karibou

What I meant was that there was no real way to control it. I'm sure that FIRST could have explicitly said "no crowd surfing," but they did not, and even if they had, I'm sure that it still would have happened.

However, they did make several pit announcements saying that we would not be allowed to take pictures of the event, and that was not enforced in the slightest.

This is just one of the sad facts that even though you try to enforce something, make announcments things still happen.

To kinda go along with that I was very disappointed and yet laughed so hard when they announced that teams needed to be considerate in the pit stands so everyone could see!

Wait, they didn't think that would be a problem?!?!!?

Originally Posted by FirstFan2011

The t-shirt stand was a total failure. Way too many logo choices, way too many options on type and color of clothing, nothing preprinted, order taking process way too slow, numerous orders late and messed up. Need I go on?
People were p*ssed off!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I do think that there were too many choices and what made it worse was that there were only two people taking orders and there should have been a line to take orders. I was waiting 30 minutes to make an order before giving up due to how many people would just cut me off when I finally went to order. I'm not the person to get into a fighting match with things like that but it was very annoying especially for someone who works in managing retail!

I will echo that the finale lunch was very poorly planned! It was warm, tasted, "10 minutes shy of going bad", and getting the sandwiches and then getting out was a nightmare! I think what hurts the STL venue is even though there is a number of hotels nearby there isn't the space that Atlanta has with the foyer outside the pits that was great for HOF and the green between buildings.

I was very sad that HOF was such a hike away from it all and not a center of attention!