Championship 2011 - St Louis - Your Thoughts Please?

[ToddF]

Originally Posted by EricH

Ideally, of course, you move the fields back to the Dome area. Not exactly practical.

I emphatically disagree. Without an entertainment stage taking up half the dome floor, all four division fields would have been in the dome, where they belong in the first place.

Not only did having fields in the pits cheapen the championship experience for the teams that had to play on them, and their team members, parents and sponsors who could not find seats, it also unnecessarily exposed spectators to an unsafe environment, possibly leading to serious eye injury. All of which was foreseeable and preventable by the organizers of the event.

Lawyer: "Members of the jury, FIRST made the decision to place the production of a promotional television show above the safety of the attendees of their event. As a result, my client sustained irreparable injury and needless emotional distress. For this reason, we ask you to award maximum monetary damages so that this organization and others like it think twice before placing publicity and self promotion above safety."