Saving Seats Epidemic

[Grim Tuesday]

Originally Posted by Aidan S.

A possible way to implement this could be giving teams each a block of seats (say the average size of a team, around 25) and allowing them to book them in advance, like a sporting event. There will be a pool of extra tickets left over, and teams can indicate how many extras they want/require, and then the organizers of the event can allocate them accordingly. This system is akin to purchasing your seats in advance.

Why not allocate each team the number of members+mentors they each have? This is information FIRST has available through TIMS every year. The only issue is parents and other visitors that might want to sit with the team. Maybe add an extra 20% to that number in events with lots of seating.


In my home regional event, Finger Lakes, the regulars have been attending for so long that everyone takes the same seats every year. We always sit in the top of the venue, closest to the pits. 1126 sits next to us. 3173 sits beneath us. 1511 sits across from us. In four years I've never seen this change and I'd hate for some sort of assigned seating change it. That said, as long as it was reserved seating like airplanes are, it could work.