FRC rules around seating need to change.

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by tcjinaz

Thought I would chime in without quoting anyone in particular with something I experienced on Tesla this year.

This was out first trip to Champs this year, and I was quite fearful of the seat wars. I tried to keep our team civil and accommodating, and succeeded, except for when I almost lost it with the supporters of a team who did not have a clue about what the rules were, nor apparently had ever heard the term Gracious Professionalism. I got over it. The kids, parents & mentors settled into a pattern where we really only reserved 4 or five seats (out of about thirty), and had no problem sharing.

Now for the good part. On Tesla, the volunteer managing the crowd had four rows closest to the field reserved for supporters of teams on the field. I have no idea if this was normal on the other 87.5% of the stadium, but it worked for us quite nicely. Most of the time, we "parked' in a section off between Tesla and whatever field was to our left (I wasn't paying a lot of attention). When our matches came up, we wandered over to the "great" seats and cheered for our team. Then moved on after the match. Two weeks later, I saw our driver on video talking about what it meant to him to be able to see and hear us cheer for them. That plan worked. Was that going on elsewhere?

Tim

I believe the reserved seating became universal policy at cmp in 2014.