Championship 2014 Proposal

[xitaqua]

If it happens in D.C, it could be part of the Engineering & Science Fair activities.

ESF DC was an awesome event !. I recommend any team that plans financially to make it to championship, but not make it, should consider taking the money and go to DC for ESF

Missouri Pavilion went unconstested !.

The 2013 BERSDT ESF DC challenge is who can bring a demo robot that can help on the garden built out of FIRST Robotics kit (70% by market value >)

Cheers,
Marcos.

[Dad1279]

After a year in MAR, I'd like to see the district models expanded, so that all teams are in 'district' with the same point system. Then teams can go outside the district and transfer points.

Then have two championships, (east and west coast?) 4 fields each.... The winners from the eight fields meet and compete for the worlds....

[craigcd]

Originally Posted by Dad1279

After a year in MAR, I'd like to see the district models expanded, so that all teams are in 'district' with the same point system. Then teams can go outside the district and transfer points.

Then have two championships, (east and west coast?) 4 fields each.... The winners from the eight fields meet and compete for the worlds....

Good idea. That way you could have 400 teams at both East and West coast. Makes for a very expensive season for the winning teams. But this is just dreaming right?

[KelliV]

Just some notes to take into account. The weather in many of the upper midwestern regions is usually pretty awful in April or May.

Coming from Chicago I can tell you that it would not be a very good city for an indoor based Championship unless you would like to have the entire show in McCormick Place. A Regional Championship, yes, but Nationals, no (unless FIRST can convince the city to put a dome on Soldier Field ).

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by dodar

Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Largest convention center in the world and you cant beat what Orlando has to offer for high schoolers.

Except for the price tag to attend.

[dodar]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Except for the price tag to attend.

It'd be worth every penny....and it wouldn't be that expensive for us

[jon-s]

Originally Posted by CalTran

One of the best parts of keeping FLL and FTC at the same time is that it gives the younger kids (Mainly FLL) something to look up to. I imagine there is nothing more impressive to an elementary or middle school kid than walking into an arena or convention center and seeing THOUSANDS of High Schoolers eagerly awaiting to come talk to you about your lego robot. Heck, that's what keep me awe struck my freshman year when we qualified for Atlanta by winning Oklahoma as a #1 seed.

It's also fun to look at FLL teams and see what they have done (I retain interest as a former FLL-er).

[Cory]

I'll be ecstatic if we return to Atlanta. I vastly prefer it to St Louis.

[dodar]

Originally Posted by Cory

I'll be ecstatic if we return to Atlanta. I vastly prefer it to St Louis.

I agree 1,000,000%. Sorry St. Louis, but Atlanta fit the championship alot better.

[EricLeifermann]

Originally Posted by dodar

I agree 1,000,000%. Sorry St. Louis, but Atlanta fit the championship alot better.

Its not that it fit better its that there is more to do in ATL that is close to the venue and you didn't have to spend 12 bucks a meal to get a crappy ham sandwich, chips, tiny bottle of water, and a cookie/brownie.

The only thing that STL has over ATL is the walk from the pits to the field for both the drive teams and the people who walked from the pits to the stands is MUCH shorter. Otherwise STL is behind ATL by a huge margin.

[cpeister]

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

The only thing that STL has over ATL is the walk from the pits to the field for both the drive teams and the people who walked from the pits to the stands is MUCH shorter. Otherwise STL is behind ATL by a huge margin.

The other benefit of STL is its location. While it doesn't matter so much to some teams who would have to fly regardless, there are many teams that are able to travel by bus who would have had to fly to ATL, or have a very long bus ride.

781 has travelled overnight on the bus to and from STL the last 2 years they have attended, leaving Tuesday night and arriving Wednesday around midday. When they attended at Epcot in 2002, they also took a bus, but more school/work time was lost for the trip.

[Chexposito]

Originally Posted by pwnageNick

McCormick Convention Center followed by United Center (Madhouse on Madison) in Chicago. Has an international airport (O'Hare) and is centrally located in the US.

-Nick

No hockey arena would work due to the possibility of the Stanley Cup playoffs (St. Louis was playing L.A. not to far from the Edward Jones Dome while the championships were wrapping up). This is why football stadiums are the prime choice, they are in their off-season.

[dodar]

We used to be able to take a bus to Atlanta, a few years we were also able to share the cost with other teams(1902, 801, 233), which allowed us to be able to afford a travel regional that would allow us to fly farther away. Now that we have to fly to STL we are having to look at closer/drivable regionals which restricts us to the teams we interact with, the regionals we can attend, and the type of fun we want to have on our travel trips; the fun usually was with snow because kids that live in Florida will most likely never see snow.

[JohnSchneider]

Originally Posted by Cory

I'll be ecstatic if we return to Atlanta. I vastly prefer it to St Louis.

St. Louis is a much cleaner safer city though. We were assaulted TWICE in Atlanta during champs 2 years ago. We felt a lot better about our kids in St. Louis...

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by animenerdjohn

St. Louis is a much cleaner safer city though. We were assaulted TWICE in Atlanta during champs 2 years ago. We felt a lot better about our kids in St. Louis...

What happened?