Championships location from 07 and onwards

[Freddy Schurr]

2007 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: ONE WORD, PHILADEPHIA

It the city of Brotherly Love, so eveyone can get along with each other

[santosh]

I think one of my mentors who is trying to get champs to stay in Atlanta said the big places being looked at right now are Atlanta, Indianapolis, Detroit, and Epcot again.

[Bill Gold]

I really miss the days of The Championship at Disney World. It was so much fun feeling that you could go anywhere at anytime of the day/night safely since it was its own little city. It was also tons of fun being able to walk anywhere and see at least 50% of the other people wearing robotics shirts. It felt more close and comfortable than Houston or Atlanta have felt, but that's just my $0.02.

[Nitroxextreme]

i have only been to atlanta
but i have heard that epcot was awesome
and there was stuff to do after the competition
something that FIRST needs to look into

[Joe J.]

I personally like Atlanta and would like to see the Championships remain there for at least of few more years. Though Championships in California would be cool too.

[Macdaddy549]

My vote would be anywhere warm. Tampa, Orlando, LA, or San Francisco

[JackN]

I'm conflicted. I would say detroit so the winners wouldn't have to take the trophy far JK, But this year it was snowing during Nationals and it wouldnt be cool to be in Michigan when it is snowing, espsecially when you need to walk.

[Kyle Love]

One draw back for Epcot, so I heard. I heard the pits were on black top in a parking lot...in the heat. So that could lead to medical problems. Sure, it would be fun to go back there, but think about safety. Wouldn't Epcot be more costly then Atlanta, Indy or Detroit? The best area to have nationals should be in the middle part of America or in the area where a high concentration of teams would be. The Midwest would be a good general area to have Nationals. But that's just my $0.02.

[Jill1022]

Originally Posted by Macdaddy549

My vote would be anywhere warm. Tampa, Orlando, LA, or San Francisco

San Francisco...not warm but hella rad!

As much as I love SF (i plan on living there after college, maybe during), I dont think its a good place for a robotics championship...too crowded and small. But that's just my opinion, i could be wrong.

[nobrakes8]

I posted before, but I'm not sure if I mentioned or saw anybody mention Kansas City, MO.. They are the host of SkillsUSA's National Leadership and Skills Conference (about the same amount of people as FIRST and takes up a ton of room).. Bartle Hall is right across the street from the Marriot Downtown, Holiday inn, Double Tree, and I believe 1 more hotel like right on that street.

It might be good in Kansas City for a few reasons; first everybody pretty much has to travel because Kansas City is in a fairly remote FIRST area, so that means all the west coast and east coast teams and everybody in between would take a dent with paying for travel. This would give FIRST the opportunity to really shine in an area that lots of school districts don't have FIRST teams, give them a chance to recruit to get school administrators to visit, as well as all the advertising that would end up happening in the local news papers. Kansas City is another "cheap" big city everything was reasonably priced when I was there with SkillsUSA. The problem would be seating arrangements in the convention center setting.

My gut feeling tells me FIRST will be in Indianapolis, because the Northeast and Midwest are packed with so many teams, plus not to mention Indianapolis has to be fairly cheap compared to a lot of big cities on the east and west coast (NYC, LA, Boston, Washington DC are somewhat expensive places to visit for 3-4-5 days). My dad worked for Siemens VDO for 16 years and spent lots of time in Detroit and he said that was a really bad city. From what I understand about the city, if you think Atlanta underground was scary to walk around after 9-10pm, then Detroit is not the city you'd want to have host FIRST. Disney I just don't think has the resources to host this competition, sadly I don’t think Universal Studios does either, although I don't know if there’s anywhere else in the city capable of hosting the championship.

No matter what happens, this next contract will probably be fairly short because I think FIRST would like to hit every major area that has FIRST teams. I'm sure FIRST would love to eventually host the championship on the West Coast since Cali has the most teams and I'm pretty confident they would like to eventually return home to the New England area where everything started.

[AmyPrib]

Originally Posted by nobrakes8

It might be good in Kansas City for a few reasons, first everybody pretty much has to travel because Kansas City is in a fairly remote FIRST area, so that means all the west coast and east coast teams and everybody in between would take a dent with paying for travel. This would give FIRST the oppertunity to really shine in an area that lots of school districts don't have FIRST teams, give them a chance to recruit to get school administrators to visit, as well as all the advertiseing that would end up happening in the local news papers. Kansas City is another "cheap" big city everything was reasonably priced when I was there with SkillsUSA. The problem would be seating arrangments in the convention center setting.

Well, this is sort of a detriment also. Wherever the Champs are held, they have to raise money to fund it....FIRST doesn't just provide all the money needed... there needs to be a relatively large amount of local support, corporate and teamwise. So, while it would be great to expose that part of the country to the event, it may not have the ability to support the event with less support there currently. Unfortunately, I don't think it's a bonus to have majority of teams having to take a dent for travel expense... While it may seem "fair" in some respects, it may not be a great reason. But, it would be smack in the middle of the country!

[Quatitos]

I don't know how long the announcement has been there, but the FRC website states that its going to be in Atlanta again for 2006.

[Kyle Love]

Originally Posted by Quatitos

I don't know how long the announcement has been there, but the FRC website states that its going to be in Atlanta again for 2006.

Yup, it's in Atlanta for atleast one more year. It's the 3rd year on a 3 year contract.

[AmyPrib]

Originally Posted by Kyle45

Yup, it's in Atlanta for atleast one more year. It's the 3rd year on a 3 year contract.

Yep!! Hence the title of this thread!

[Madison]

Originally Posted by Kyle45

One draw back for Epcot, so I heard. I heard the pits were on black top in a parking lot...in the heat. So that could lead to medical problems. Sure, it would be fun to go back there, but think about safety.

The entire venue was built on Epcot's 'Discover' parking lot, I think. It may actually be the 'Journey' lot, however, as I can't remember the order they're laid out in. In any case, no asphalt was visible throught the whole venue. It was all covered by false grass or plastic flooring. The pits were housed in an air-conditioned tent. It was, in most cases, quite cold in the pits.

Of all things, I am least concerned about safety with respect to the event at Walt Disney World.

Walt Disney World is undoubtedly more expensive than any other venue FIRST could probably find, save perhaps for New York City, Las Vegas or Los Angeles. As I've stated time and again, though, it is worth the cost. FIRST is not an organization that should be settling for or in search of the cheapest options, but demanding the best facilities the world has to offer.