[FRC Blog] 2015 FIRST Championship Updates

[JohnFogarty]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

Is Eisntein on the opposite side of the dome now or am I really turned around?

No, it's still on the same side. Has to be, they won't switch sides of the dome because the lounge for VIP guests is on the side of the dome they use now.

Green arrow is last year's entrance. Red arrow is where FLL used to enter from.

[Thad House]

Originally Posted by JohnFogarty

No, it's still on the same side.

Green arrow is last year's entrance. Red arrow is where FLL used to enter from.

That does mean its reversed. Eintein used to be where hopper and newton are now.

[JohnFogarty]

Originally Posted by Thad House

That does mean its reversed. Eintein used to be where hopper and newton are now.

I see what you're sayying now. That doesn't make sense why they would switch sides.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by JohnFogarty

I see what you're sayying now. That doesn't make sense why they would switch sides.

That VIP lounge on the west end eats up a lot of seating space. Putting Einstein on the east end gives many more seats for team members to use.

[JB987]

Is it reasonable to think that for Einstein seating fairness spectators will be removed from the Archi and Tesla fields before the finals and re seating will take place to include all 8 division winner's teams first?

[Chris is me]

Not to take away anything from the many good changes and updates here, but why is Einstein even on the end of the dome? We have raised the size of the Championship by 50%, but increased the seating maybe... 10% with the VIP section removed. It has always been quite cramped. Can't we go back to side seating like Atlanta?

Originally Posted by Hallry

That's a relatively small HoF exhibit. Took me a while to find it on the layout.

It's been this bad for years. HOF teams get a coffee table when they used to get a full pit.

[Connor Mulkey]

Originally Posted by JB987

Is it reasonable to think that for Einstein seating fairness spectators will be removed from the Archi and Tesla fields before the finals and re seating will take place to include all 8 division winner's teams first?

Those were my thoughts. Being part of the Archimedes or Tesla division shouldn't provide any big seating advantage because you'll be moved to make room for the teams that will be featured on Einstein.

[Richard Wallace]

If I am reading this right, teams in Archimedes and Tesla will have a pretty significant logistical advantage over those in other subdivisions.

[Matt_Boehm_329]

That's a long walk from Hopper and Newton to those practice fields

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by Matt_Boehm_329

That's a long walk from Hopper and Newton to those practice fields

But its a pretty nice walk to the competition fields. Seems like a fair way to do it.

[Hallry]

That's a relatively small HoF exhibit. Took me a while to find it on the layout.

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by Hallry

That's a relatively small HoF exhibit. Took me a while to find it on the layout.

The HoF exhibit is (sorry, not sorry) embarrassingly small.

I get that they're trying to crunch as many teams in the pit as possible, but it doesn't seem fair that the Hall of Fame teams spend hundreds upon thousands of hours on their efforts to improve the FIRST community, and we reward them with a cocktail table.

Remember the Atlanta Hall of Fame? Where the teams got their own HoF display the size of a real pit, and you could see them all as you went in to the convention center? We need that back. I see no reason why we couldn't do that in the upstairs atrium of the Americas Center, where there's currently quite a bit of open space.

After years of comments about the HoF exhibit being to small, it really seems like FIRST likes it this way, and that's pretty sad. These are the teams we need to be celebrating & holding up as role models for the FIRST community, and we throw them in a corner once they've won?

They have so much to offer us all. I think it's well past time FIRST offered them something back.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

If I am reading this right, teams in Archimedes and Tesla will have a pretty significant logistical advantage over those in other subdivisions.

Why do you say that?

[Steven Smith]

Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell

Why do you say that?

Faster access to practice fields, as well as not having to move seating for Einstein matches are both pretty nice.

[Koko Ed]

Anyone have a Segway I can borrow? That's an awful lot of ground to cover.