Building a Practice Field

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

I was thinking that.

Also how did you guys get your field? Donated, bought yourselves, multiple tems pitched in??

1024 got a grant and have managed to get the space free (or relatively so) both years. Teams bring the game specific things like this years goals and bridges.

It has been available for all Central Indiana teams to use but it has been mostly used by 1024 and us. 234 and 1018 also used it a lot his year. It was set up late this year so that hampered teams that didn't have practice bots.

[MARS_James]

179 up until this year used a half size field and this year upgraded to a full one that was primarily made of wood so if you message one of their members I am sure they can give you finer details. One thing you might want to look into is hosting a scrimmage the Saturday before bag and tag for all the teams in your area, which is what 179 does as well.

[Jimmy Nichols]

We have been investing in constructing a full size practice field. We found the drawings here. We built all the side borders at the beginning of September and hope to have the driver station walls built by the end of the year.

We received donated wood, bought some wood, then just spent a couple work sessions putting everything together. We have the carpet from QCR last year that we use.

Our plan is to put the field up towards the end of build season at our location in the Cincinnati Mall and make it available for any area team who wants to use it. We also plan to use it as the practice field for QCR, that way 1024 and 829 don't have to drag theirs over again this year, thanks again for that.