Seats at Championship

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I know this thread pops up every year, but what I witnessed this morning was sheer chaos and I feel like something needs to be organized at the venue or administrative level about seats for scouts. People were trampled and I even saw a fist fight. While the behavior is unacceptable, as a group we need to stop the cause of it.

We (and by we I mean FIRST and the community) can't just say free for all, first come first served and open three doors and wish everyone good luck. We should be able to, but FIRST is huge now and is a microcosm of the world and this kind of unreasonable behavior is going to happen and is contagious. Emotions run high, everyone puts so much work into a season and sometimes lose our logical level headedness (there have been times lost mine). We also have to realize that not everyone in a team shirt is a scout or pit crew or drive team member (I know they should act accordingly as they still represent the team), but parents sponsors and other people come to championship with teams.

I do want to thank teams 148 and 624 for stepping up this morning and trying to organize an orderly system before the mass hysteria took over.

I think 6-10 seats should be reserved in the closest sections for each team and lottery'd off. That or have some sort of organized system for who showed up first. These are just my ideas, what are yours? I thought I would turn to the smartest forum on the internet before compiling ideas and writing to FIRST.

PS I apologize for any spelling or grammatical errors this is from my iPhone in the stands.