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Please post when you know the date. The New England teams are moving to the district model next year but depending on dates some might be interested in still traveling to a Regional...who knows
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How about our friends to the north? They're certainly welcome as well!
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Just curious, what email blast did this come from? I would hate to go to a regional at the Armory or ECAV. ECAV would be much more crowded than WPI and the Armory seating would be terrible, parkin will stink (and it leaks in bad weather). The HFH would have pit space but not much seating, it is half the size of the Verizon center and had 2500 less seats than the Agganis arena. The only place in the capital region I would think could host a good regional would be the TUC (Pepsi Arena? I don't know what it is called anymore)
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Regardless, the venues as discussed in this thread are the ones that are seriously being considered as far as I know. Hopefully we will have more details to share in the near future. |
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ECAV is bigger and has more seating than the pre-2013 WPI Regional, with plenty of parking even if you have to walk around HFH. I would guess the Armory works with supplemental bleachers and a slightly scattered pit area. I don't think it's ideal, but it would probably work for a smaller event.The Armory has some parking, particularly during break when the regional would probably be if hosted at RPI (around march 15th / week 3). The Houston Field House is more than big enough for a regional this size, with plenty of seating as long as the field is parallel to the long side of the ice rink. However, it's hockey playoffs, so the field house probably isn't available. Hudson Valley also has a reasonable arena, with a decent amount of parking and accessibility. |
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Kidding, kidding -- haven't followed the team in awhile. Go Red! And Clarkson still sucks... |
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Oh don't start that now.... At least Clarkson has a FIRST team!!!
And I'm pretty sure the saying goes RPI sucks and SLU... well we just won't talk about it... [Though I will admit it unfortunately does look like RPI has done better than Clarkson in the last couple of years...] |
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Parking isn't great at any of these locations. What do you expect in a city? A short simple shuttle just like RPI does for hockey games could easily solve that problem. |
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Some things I heard from tonight's meeting (second-hand, I wasn't there in person):
Last edited by Chris is me : 25-06-2013 at 22:36. |
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On another note, off topic I know, does anyone know what regionals if any will be closing with the advent of the NE District System? I've heard rumors that the Pine Tree Regional would close but I have seen anything offical from FIRST or another official source that confirms any regionals to be closed as of next year. |
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Also, Patrick: I'm not sure why you would have concerns with parking at an ECAV Regional over Spring Break. The field house parking for hockey games will be almost 100% available and right there, along with student housing parking on the other side of ECAV that will be available to us due to Spring Break. That parking accommodates thousands of fans coming for hockey games and students who live there all winter. It is more than suitable for any FRC event hosted at these venues, the limiting factor is by far the venue size, not the parking in any way (at least for ECAV, the armory has a parking challenge associated with it). |
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