Championship Location Rumor

[MattK]

nope the site is working and there is nothing about nats

[Chris P]

For the in the dome that opens:
It seems nobody has been to Toronto for the infamous opening SkyDome.

Chris

Originally posted by Wayne C.
Sorry Team 93First-

You may not LIKE what I said but it WAS thought out and makes perfect sense. I TEACH AP classes and I KNOW that the testing dates are close at hand.

The needs of a relatively small percentage of students will have little effect on a million dollar project like the Nationals. Remember, this is the same organization which, on the day before registration last year, cut out 50% of the teams in a single proclamation. I am sure they are confident that even if the test takers don't attend they will still have a big enough crowd to make the Nationals a major event.

From the information we have received here in NJ from some pretty reliable sources the date will be May 3rd and the place will be Houston. If I'm wrong you have my permission to say "I told you so".

Almost confimable rumors state that Disney's only date they offered FIRST for hosting the the championship was May 1st- 3rd, but FIRST had to reject because they felt that May was too late for the championship, also the price butchering was another factor.

My sources state that the Nationals will be either April 10th- 12th or April 24th to 26th.

[Todd Derbyshire]

I know why don't we have the competition at UNH!!! Everyone bring your robots up here we can use the hockey center as the playing field and everyone can gain some vital college experience by visiting UNH Wow I'm dreaming now but it would be fun.

[Joel J]

Originally posted by Dave...
My coworker heard the news this morning on WJR (Detroit, MI) with Dean Kamen being interviewed.


===> Houston.

I can hear it now already in the pits..."Houston, we have a problem"

You, sir, are absolutely correct. With a little research, I found this Real Audio stream of Dean's interview this morning.. Jump to about one minute 50 seconds to hear him state the Championship Event location.

[David Kelly]

Enough said. Thanks Joel!


[edit] now, waiting for a date....[/edit]

[MattK]

If they release something today, can someone please e-mail my cell


Mobile@htownradio.cjb.net

[MattK]

Originally posted by Joel J.
You, sir, are absolutely correct. With a little research, I found this Real Audio stream of Dean's interview this morning.. Jump to about one minute 50 seconds to hear him state the Championship Event location.

Wow, Texas

[Jay5780]

Dean said in the interview that this years National Championship will be held in "The new version of what used to be called the Astrodome." Now does he it could be any one of the buildings in Reliant Park ie. Stadium, Centre, Arena, Hall, or the Astrodome itself? I couldn't find a website for any of these except for the Texans website, so I was unable to find anything.

I think that it will be at the Astrodome or the Stadium becasue from what I found for exhibition space there is no bleacher seating except for in these two places. So unless the are going to pay more money to bring in bleachers then I'm goin with the Astrodome.

Oh yeah, just so you all know Six Flags doesn't open weekdays until the second to last week of May so there wont be much to do on Thursday and Friday unless they wait till late May or they have some kind of special deal for the teams. (maybe a private team party?)

[Kevin Sevcik]

While it's true that the convention center doesn't have bleacher seating, by the same token, the Astrodome and Stadium don't really have any large, easily powered areas for pits spaces. And as big as FIRST is, the fields would still be fairly small and insignificant looking when placed inside a huge football stadium like the Astrodome or Reliant Stadium. So I think it could still swing either way, really.

[Amanda Aldridge]

So, when do you think the announcement will come? Also, do you think that it was an intentional leak to see if we'd catch it, or accidental, or they just haven't put it on the website yet?

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally posted by angel55
So, when do you think the announcement will come? Also, do you think that it was an intentional leak to see if we'd catch it, or accidental, or they just haven't put it on the website yet?

I think he didn't announce the dates on the radio, and details haven't been firmed up enuf for FIRST to want to post the announcement yet.

[Robert B]

Just checked with hotel near Astrodome, they said FIRST would be coming in on April 10-12, 2003.

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally posted by Robert B
Just checked with hotel near Astrodome, they said FIRST would be coming in on April 10-12, 2003.

Thank you!

[Kevin Sevcik]

Wow. you people sure do take your decective work seriously. Still, even if that is the day, I think it's important to remember that it hasn't been officially announced by FIRST, and more importantly, that anyone jumping the gun and booking flights and hotels now is going to miss out on whatever packages FIRST is diligently working on for the teams. Indeed, booking things now will probably undermine FIRST's efforts.