[NE FIRST] NE Championship Survey

[Kims Robot]

Originally Posted by Samwaldo

Can I ask: Is the hallway around the whole arena that is at the top of the stairs going to be used for pits?

The hallway is really wide and really long(BIG Pits), but theirs a huge issue of bringing the robot down to the areana floor. I know there's a giant elevator but that could potentially be a huge slow down point especially for those teams running to their match because their late, or for fixes needed during eliminations.

Ask away! The upstairs concourse is going to be used for Sponsors, Scholarships, Vendors, Food Service and Robotics Companies. The Pits will be located where they always were down on the Ice Level. On the Concourse level there would be an issue with providing power, providing safe exits, the ceiling height and protecting the floors. For these reasons and that there would be a distinct disadvantage (queing time, access to practice field/spare parts/machine shop) if we placed any teams on that level. All of the Pits will remain on the Ice level.

I'm guessing that many of these questions are aimed at fitting more teams into the NE CMP. We are currently approved for 53 teams, which is actually 33% of the NE District. MI takes 64 teams (27%), MAR 54 teams (52%), PNW 64 teams (42%), so you can see we are right in line with the number of teams at each CMP, and in the middle in terms of percentages.

The layout for the event will be mostly the same as the Boston Regional. We are doing what we can to increase the number of seats with a view of the field if possible (also somewhat depends on the 2014 field design), and are looking at ways to provide storage so that teams don't have to keep "stuff" in the stands taking up seating space. We will be working to add a lot more small features (Robotics Company Row, Mentors Lounge, Alumni Event, etc).