Bad News for teams on Waiting List

[Jeff Pahl]

Originally Posted by efoote868

I guess the only thing that bums me out is that if not next year, then i'll have graduated.

Sorry to bum you out, but the 2008 event is already on the Ga Dome calendar.

I live in Atlanta, and it's nice having it here, but I'd be happy to see it go to Indy after the contract is up here. Indy is a nice place, and it's time to move the event around again.

As others have noted, the limiting factor at any venue is field space. There is only so much room on a football field. As far as pit space goes, FIRST only uses one hall of the four available at the GWCC. The only way to get more field space is to move the fields out of a football stadium and into the convention center halls with the pits. This would allow more fields (and therefore more teams), but would take away the excitement of being in the big stadium. This would also open up the options to a lot more cities, as it would no longer be necessary to have a convention center adjacent to a stadium.