Pit size

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

For example, a tornado the week before Championship might make half the convention center unavailable.

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Yeah, like that'll ever happen

You mean again?

[Bill_B]

No sign of a pit map for this year? I was trying to remember how buried (or not) it was last year. Maybe my brain fog factor has expanded after wading through 1114's competition data sheet, so I cannot see the forest for the trees.

[Gary Dillard]

Originally Posted by Bill_B

No sign of a pit map for this year? I was trying to remember how buried (or not) it was last year. Maybe my brain fog factor has expanded after wading through 1114's competition data sheet, so I cannot see the forest for the trees.

It still says coming soon

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Guys,
Any speculation you have on pit size will be rendered false when you see the pit layout. Remember that St. Louis is nowhere near the layout of Atlanta where FTC and FLL pits were not included in FRC, Hall of Fame was in the big space we all called Lobby, and colleges and vendors also had space elsewhere. We might not have the two playing fields this year but we will have other things occupying the space including another 30-50 teams (or more, yikes!)

[Gary Dillard]

In case y'all forgot how it was laid out last year (minus the team numbers)

[JoeWithTheSpecs]

With the amount of teams this year I would definitely make sure you can go down to 8x8. Our pit has extensions that we can put in so it can go from 8x8 up to a little under 10 x 10. I'm more concerned about space in the aisle. Hopefully it won't get too crowded there.

[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by Bill_B

No sign of a pit map for this year? I was trying to remember how buried (or not) it was last year. Maybe my brain fog factor has expanded after wading through 1114's competition data sheet, so I cannot see the forest for the trees.

No pit map, even for volunteers.?!?! Good luck setting things up and better luck finding anyone this weekend.

[Siri]

Originally Posted by Bill_B

No pit map, even for volunteers.?!?! Good luck setting things up and better luck finding anyone this weekend.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=105928

No worries. No pit size listed, though. (Ok, maybe some worries)

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Richard

You mean again?

Actually, again again.
We had Atlanta almost blown away by an errant tornado 2 (3?) years ago, and then the St Louis airport was briefly out of commission for a few days last year.

We're like tornado magnets.

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

We're like tornado magnets.

Well, you can certainly say that now, Don!

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

For example, a tornado the week before Championship might make half the convention center unavailable.

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Yeah, like that'll ever happen

Originally Posted by Richard

You mean again?

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Actually, again again.

*Correction: again, again, again

[Thad House]

Something we noticed is that for some reason our pit was an extra 2 feet wide. We also noticed this in the team across from us. This was where ours was marked off, and we measured the pits next to us and they were both the standard 10 feet wide.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by sst.thad

Something we noticed is that for some reason our pit was an extra 2 feet wide. We also noticed this in the team across from us. This was where ours was marked off, and we measured the pits next to us and they were both the standard 10 feet wide.

You will be asked to give that back next year

[Thad House]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

You will be asked to give that back next year

We will. But we didn't notice until midday Thursday, and it would have been too much work for everyone around us to get rid of our extra 2 feet because we were right in the middle.

[cgmv123]

Well, our pit was "10x10", but the curtains took away from that. We had to take the curtain rod out of the pole in the back and zip tie it to out pit structure. Good thing we were on a corner.

Our crew chief called it the best looking pit in the place.

[Cal578]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Actually, again again.
We had Atlanta almost blown away by an errant tornado 2 (3?) years ago, and then the St Louis airport was briefly out of commission for a few days last year.

We're like tornado magnets.

You mean the StL airport was your fault, Don? My wife was there, trying to get home when that tornado hit. She ended up taking a bus to get to a train to get a taxi to get to the airport in Chicago to fly to Buffalo, so I could drive an hour each way to bring her home to Rochester a day and half late. I've always been happy when she comes home, but never as much as that day.