Detroit Venue for Championship 2018

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Originally Posted by Arhowk

Jamming 400 teams into the People Mover will be one fun adventure . I'd bet a lot of teams will elect not to attend opening or closing ceremonies (or Einstein if this prediction is correct) for this reason.

Yeah, this bums me out. The last couple years have had less than stellar attendance at Closing ceremonies (relatively speaking, at least) because of how late they go and the fact that there's no more matches after them. I feel like this is a bit of a disservice to the winners of the Chairman's, Inspire, and Champion's Awards. This was in a venue where the pits and stands were all within the same building. Now that the two venues are over a mile apart, I doubt we'll have much better attendance at Closing or even Opening ceremonies for CMPN (is that what we're calling it now?).

I'm also sad about the potential seating situation in Cobo - I don't think the venue has any option to accommodate 400* teams' worth of seating for matches with the exception of using big risers. This isn't really something that can be remedied, however, so I'm gonna try to not get worked up over it.

*plus Jr. FLL-FTC teams

Originally Posted by Basel A

Bleacher or any kind of temporary seating for Einstein would be a disaster. Einstein in Ford Field should be a certainty.

God I hope so. Transporting 16/32 teams worth of pits and robots is worth it in my opinion, especially if any sort of attendance at Ceremonies is a priority.