Let's talk about venues...

[MooreteP]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

I feel we have very different goals when it comes to bleachers. I like to watch robots not dance. I feel that the shallow angle of the bleachers, while helpful for dancing, is detrimental to all seats being good for watching robots.

Other faraday cages I've been in were the room 79 used to do kickoff in at Honeywell. While not TECHNICALLY a faraday cage it was fairly effective at removing all cell signal by virtue of its construction. My old lab in Tampa had the same issue. That lab used rebar reinforcement with 18" on a side squares for REASONS I'm fairly certain Honeywell used similar construction for similar reasons. We kept the door open in hope of having some cell signal in there. However, closing the door removed all signal.

Miserable is, in my opinion, the appropriate description. I found the pits to be humid (I lived in FL for 3 years, still found them humid), cramped, dark, echoey, and reeking of chlorine. I've been in a LOT of venues, I can't think of another venue that has worse pits than WPI.

Thank you for the thoughtful response.

My favorite Faraday Cage is the one next to the Van de Graaff generators at the Boston Museum of Science. I would pay to sit in there during a discharge.

While "dancing" isn't the goal of FIRST, I have been to some events at WPI where the energy was quite high.

I guess for comparison, we could look at Agannis Arena, where the steep angle of the seating makes for great viewing, but half of the teams are relegated to the end zones, where the field configuration blocks the view.
WPI doesn't have this issue.

I'll still pick WPI, though some of that is due to nostalgia.

Pits = miserable, yeah, but I prefer below average. (Sig Figs)