Bad News for teams on Waiting List

[David Brinza]

Originally Posted by EricRobodox

Well, considering i live in Los Angeles, why not Los Angeles. What would be awesome is Staple Center as the pits, which would be insanely awesome to be on the same floor that the Lakers play on (im a huge LA sports fan) for the pits, which is big enough, let alone a lot of rooms to house separately FVC and FLL if need be, but i doubt it, its pretty big. Then the Convention Center next door has 2700000sqft!!!!! Well, some sites say more and some say less, but definetely more space than Georgia Dome and Indianapolis. Its all inside, and the weather is great. Plus, with the new Downtown Center being built right next door, there will be plenty of things to do in walking distance. By the way, Convention Center and Staple Center are technically the same building, they are connected. A shorter walking distance from the pits to the fields.

Anyways, its just my 2cents, I would love to see Championships be moved to West Coast for a year or so, for traveling reasons and because i think people may enjoy it more from our awesome weather, cool places to go, and the Pacific Ocean. lol.

If the LA Convention Center could be configured to have a four fields with each with stands to seat 5,000 and an Einstein field with stands to seat 20,000 then you might be able to do this. You probably could have the pits in the Convention Center as well (why use Staples for pits?). But the max ceiling height in the convention center is 40' - not high enough to put stands in with that sort of seating capacity.

The FIRST Championship event (in its present state) can ONLY be done at a venue like a domed football stadium (accommodates >5 fields and spectator seating) with an adjacent convention center for the pits. There are only a handful of these venues in the entire US: Georgia Dome, RCA Dome (or it's successor in Indy), Edwards Dome (St. Louis), Reliant Stadium (remember the hike from the Houston Astrodome to the fields?), and maybe a couple of others. Phoenix University stadium is possibly the only venue in the Western US that could accommodate the championship - and it's not clear that adequate pit space is available close enough to the floor of the stadium to make it a viable choice.