Championships location from 07 and onwards

[CJV648]

In an ideal world it would be in a different region each year like the super bowl or final four. This would help get the word about FIRST out around the country as well as helping to equalize travel costs among the teams. I understand that this would likely cause additional difficulties in finding venues and make organization of the event even harder, so I doubt that it is about to happen. Barring changing annual locations I think alternating between Nashville (or Atlanta) and Las Vegas (or Salt Lake City) would help equalize travel costs without increasing organizational overhead too much.

Brazil or New Orleans would be the funnest locations if we could make the competition in time for Mardi Gras.

[!DOM!]

Originally Posted by ali_rockon22

I think it should be held in a very large ship in international waters to make it a truly international event.

Back to the real topic, I think it should be held in a city where there has been an Olympic event held there because it is already suited for a large number of people. For example, Salt Lake City or L.A.

Like Atlanta. It is fun there. But maybe more north east (not cause im more north) but its closer to FIRST Headquaters.

[cire]

I just had a crazy idea, we should have robotics competition domes! Just like football has football fields, basketball has basketball arena's and so on. Wouldnt that be sweet?

[Nawaid Ladak]

What if FIRST started a project to build a arena type stadium somewhere with the city paying part, sports teams paying anouther part and FIRST and other small orginizations paying the last part of it.

i think that would be an idea that can be tossed around

[Madison]

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[!DOM!]

Is it wrong to answer his questions?????????

I dont have a direct chat.

[Madison]

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I dont have a direct chat.

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[Nawaid Ladak]

Take a city with a expiring arena for example, im just going to say Chicago or something like that.

The city pays one part of it

You build an arena/Convention center type place so that the sports team (football basketball, colleges, hockey baseball etc) pay a part of it (I KNOW MY SPORTS, the alamodome in San Antonio can fit both a basketball court and a football stadium.)

and then you take money from private donors and orginizations like FIRST and etc. .

thats what im talking about

iit would cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $500 Million BUT lets say there is a nice enough city that pays $150 million or even $200 Million (Orlando is building a new $350 million dollar arena and the city is paying $150 Million and the county is paying another $75 Million). You combine state, federal and county grants to this arena and your already half the way there.

The Orlando magic made a bid of about $125 million for this new arena, if you do the same lets say for a all purpose stadium, then your good with it

FIRST would probably have to pitch over $10-$15 Million in my opinion to get the championship there as long as it likes.

now THATS what i was talking about

P.S. Let us design the arena, after all we are going to become the engineers of tomorrow right. so why not start on the arena of tomorrow with us?

[Donut]

FIRST having it's own arena would be nice, but I don't know how well that will work. Remember that whatever arena they would construct, it most likely needs to be designed to handle what FIRST will look like 5 years from now (since a stadium/convention center duo will undoubtedly take close to this long, if not longer). FIRST has only been around for a little over 15 years, and with it growing at the exponential rate it is, that could be a hard number to predict (who knows? Maybe they'll even be a 4th competition in addition to FVC, FLL, and FRC by then).

If it's feasible I think it would be cool for FIRST to do a rotating Championship between 2 or 3 (or 4 even) cities (yes, I know it was mentioned earlier, but it's a very good idea). As long as it was between 4 or less cities, and you spaced them fairly evenly across the country (1 West Coast, 1 East Coast, 1 Southern, and 1 Northern, or some other combo), you end up giving almost every team in the country a chance to have easy access (aka within a 10 hour bus ride) to the Championship sometime during a student's 4 year high school attendance. If they ever got adventerous FIRST could even have one Championship in Canada

[Cactus_Robotics]

I know you said dont put your city but.... Glendale, Az is hosting the superbowl this year and theres a great shopping venue and hotels nearby. another great place would be Anahiem Convention/Disneyland

[T3_1565]

I wouldn't mind it in Canada. Canada produces a lot of good robots given the fact we only have two regionals, and I think it should be held up here at least once. Say in the ACC or something

[BRosser314]

Originally Posted by T3_1565

I wouldn't mind it in Canada. Canada produces a lot of good robots given the fact we only have two regionals, and I think it should be held up here at least once. Say in the ACC or something

As much as Canada sounds cool, I'm nto sure if it would be in the best interest of FIRST, since with recent laws saying your going to need a passport to fly in, I'm not sure if teams would be able to go thru with that, YES i know that most kids now have passports, but i always used to remember the hassle it was to just travel from Michigan to Ontario for a regional, and this would be magnified bya bout 5 times amount of people. What does everyone think about this?

[Nawaid Ladak]

don't forget about what happened last year about that one kid from New York, it was on the CBS Evening News

[KTorak]

Originally Posted by BRosser314

As much as Canada sounds cool, I'm nto sure if it would be in the best interest of FIRST, since with recent laws saying your going to need a passport to fly in, I'm not sure if teams would be able to go thru with that, YES i know that most kids now have passports, but i always used to remember the hassle it was to just travel from Michigan to Ontario for a regional, and this would be magnified bya bout 5 times amount of people. What does everyone think about this?

The gov't is supposed to be passing a law where if you are traveling with a team or some sort of organization, the only thing you need to pass to Canada is a birth certificate.

[T3_1565]

yeah I heard about that team thing as well. And I was thinking if we got one in Canada, Canada will become more involved and I wouldn't be surprised to see more regionals popping up around say BC and Alberta. It would be a nice way to promote FIRST in Canada.