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Hey, pumped for 04-05? I know I am but I sure am confused. The FIRST site (i.e. http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2005/chevents.htm) says that '05 Nationals are at the Georgia Dome 4/21-23/04. I know there have been posts about how dissapointing it would be to have Disney canceled (SoCal) but I had not read anything about this. What's the word on the street? You heard anything?
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Re: 2005 Nationals

Nationals were in the Georgia Dome last year, and will be there until 2006 (I can't add ) at least (They had a 3 year contract, right? Or was it 6?)

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Re: 2005 Nationals

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Nationals were in the Georgia Dome last year, and will be there until 2007 at least (They had a 3 year contract, right? Or was it 6?)
As far as I know it was a 3 year contract, meaning that they'll be there until 2006.
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Re: 2005 Nationals

I think Atlanta is a great location for the Championship event. It is modern enough, warm enough, and has good restaurants, but too many escalators.
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Re: 2005 Nationals

so far, atlanta has been the best national site for me. at disney, it was super expensive and eventually got too small, houston was a long way to drag the robot up and down ramps. at the georgia dome, the weather was nice, expenses weren't as much, the robot walk to the fields were very short, overall it was nice. the escalators weren't so bad really... better than stairs, waiting for elevators, or ramps...
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I think Atlanta is a great location for the Championship event. It is modern enough, warm enough, and has good restaurants, but too many escalators.
Someone obviously didn't get their media passes at Atlanta... :-p
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Re: 2005 Nationals

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Nationals were in the Georgia Dome last year, and will be there until 2006 (I can't add ) at least (They had a 3 year contract, right? Or was it 6?)

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Re: 2005 Nationals

Atlanta was great but only having two elevators to bring tools and such into the pits was not fun. There were quite long lines to get down there and around 1ish all the teams finally got all their pit equipment. Hopefully this year they'll let us unload underneath (the way we loaded to leave)
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Re: 2005 Nationals

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so far, atlanta has been the best national site for me. at disney, it was super expensive and eventually got too small, houston was a long way to drag the robot up and down ramps. at the georgia dome, the weather was nice, expenses weren't as much, the robot walk to the fields were very short, overall it was nice. the escalators weren't so bad really... better than stairs, waiting for elevators, or ramps...
I had no problem with having to take escalators.

I did have a problem with it taking 20 minutes to get from the pits to the field without having a press pass.

It made watching matches as a member of the drive team/pit crew incredibly tough.
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I had no problem with having to take escalators.

I did have a problem with it taking 20 minutes to get from the pits to the field without having a press pass.

It made watching matches as a member of the drive team/pit crew incredibly tough.
Yeah our pit crew, and drive team pretty much had to be leashed to the pits, because you just couldn't easily go view matches and be back in time.
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Re: 2005 Nationals

I agree with all of you. The walk from the pits to the fields to watch was way too long. But I heard a rumor that they are changing it for 2005. Can anyone confirm that?
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I agree with all of you. The walk from the pits to the fields to watch was way too long. But I heard a rumor that they are changing it for 2005. Can anyone confirm that?
I thought I already posted this, but it doesn't show up. http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2005/reg_open.htm says:
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I thought I already posted this, but it doesn't show up. http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2005/reg_open.htm says:
ok... what i get from the pits area... i assume that we will have both halls downstairs (one last year was filled from another event) and that will almost double the size of the pits... having 2 divisions in each hall...

but about the walk for the spectators being shorter... i wonder if they will either open up a back way from the pits to the stadium from the downstairs area outside, or if where they had the shirts, if there is a pathway there to get from the pits to the stadium... i guess we will find out in April =D
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Re: 2005 Nationals

a friend and i were able to make it from the dome to the escalator above the pits in 5 min for a programming thing that was completly over out heads. but i really liked the nationals in atlanta. (just not the hotel)
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Yeah our pit crew, and drive team pretty much had to be leashed to the pits, because you just couldn't easily go view matches and be back in time.
As members of the drive team, we walked onto the field floor and up the stairs thru the Lego League Pit, either directly after our own match, or coming from the pits. Perfectly legal as far as I'm concerned. I needed to watch other matches and was not about to take the 20+min walk.
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