New Championship Layout 2015

[BethMo]

Originally Posted by thatprogrammer

Come on, we all know we need a field named tesla!

I'd vote for Feynman.

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by BethMo

I'd vote for Feynman.

+1.

Feynman would be an awesome name for a field.

[Wayne TenBrink]

Perhaps some day the NFL will play the Superbowl in the Kamen/FIRST Dome, which will be big enough to handle 8 FRC fields, with spacious pits for 600 teams, and comfortable grandstands that are just a few short steps away.

[Chief Hedgehog]

I don't think it would ever happen, but I wonder if the Twin Cities could be a site in the future.

Amenities:
-'Fargo' and 'Grumpy Old Men' were filmed here
-FRC at the new Vikings Stadium (larger than the former Metrodome)
-FTC/FLL could be at the Minneapolis Convention Center
-Former HUB of Northwest Airlines/Delta
- So it has the infrastructure
- There is a regional Airport in St Cloud that does a lot of flights to Chicago and the SW USA
-Mall of America could host many events
-Target Field could host a Twins night
-New Soccer Venue (if MN United and Twins can get a stadium built)
-2nd only to New York City in live theater per capita
-Is the third-largest theater market in the U.S.
-Has an expansive enclosed skyway that connects MPLS.
-THe area has an abundance of hotels and entertainment venues
-Is relatively safe *as long as you stay away from North MPLS
-has ever-increasing lines of Light Rail
(connecting from DTWN MPLS to MOA to StPaul to near StCloud).
-Has many Fortune 500 Corporations (Best Buy, PTC, Target, 3M, Medtronic, etc) to aid in the sponsorship.

Also, it already hosts the largest FRC event outside of the FRC Championships (MN North Star and 10,000 Lakes) - so it has the background of what to expect.

Any thoughts?

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by Chief Hedgehog

Also, it already hosts the largest FRC event outside of the FRC Championships (MN North Star and 10,000 Lakes) - so it has the background of what to expect.

Any thoughts?

It has been suggested I would be surprised if it happened as early as 2018, but give it another decade of infrastructure, growth, and FIRST development, but at that point we're so far into the future it's relatively impossible to predict.

[Koko Ed]

I was all giddy with excitement about having 6 to 8 fields in the dome next year and then eliminations happened and Archimedes took up space on the backside of my field blocking my exit and Galileo was backing all the way up towards my front.
Now I'm concerned where are we supposed to put all these teams during elims.

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

I was all giddy with excitement about having 6 to 8 fields in the dome next year and then eliminations happened and Archimedes took up space on the backside of my field blocking my exit and Galileo was backing all the way up towards my front.
Now I'm concerned where are we supposed to put all these teams during elims.

It did get very crammed behind Archimedes and Curie with how close those two fields were on the corner. When you stop and think about it, due to the 4 team alliance set up it added 32 teams to the elimations meaning compared to previous years you had more than a division added to the crowds behind the fields.

[Chief Hedgehog]

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

It has been suggested I would be surprised if it happened as early as 2018, but give it another decade of infrastructure, growth, and FIRST development, but at that point we're so far into the future it's relatively impossible to predict.

I am not sure if I follow you here. The infrastructure (planes, trains,automobiles and walking) is better than what St Louis has or has proposed.

The growth is a question when it comes to FRC involvement - but considering the vast structure of MnSCU or UofM - the bodies are there if FRC MN is ready to ask. Between students from MSU-Mankato, SCSU, UM-TC, and UMD, there are more than enough bodies to help coordinate if FRC MN wanted to push this.

As for future - yes, 2018 seems a little too soon, but not out of the realm of possibility.