FrankAnswersFridays: October 25, 2013: Safety at Championships

[Chris is me]

I'm not against making plans for designated scouting sections, provided there's a way to come up with a simple, effective, accommodating solution that doesn't take a huge amount of effort. I don't think the addition of a scouting section will fix the stampede problem, though. Teams want to sit together, there is limited seating, and not all of it is very good. Therefore, people are going to rush to try and "grab" blocks of seats for their team to sit in clusters.

This isn't an easy problem to solve at all, but it's not something that can go unaddressed either. Anything that involves adding staff, seating designations, etc. is going to be a hard sell as it's a lot of extra work and additional resources for a problem that exists for about 15-20 minutes a day.

I like the idea of four lines and letting in a set number of people / teams in at a time in waves. requires more people just for 20 minutes and just at the door. Letting people into the dome in waves means the quest for seating will be civil and fair without having to reserve sections for teams or something weird like that. The main challenge i see is how one handles a situation where one team member shows up at 4 AM to hold a spot in line and the rest of the team shows up at 7...