Championships location from 07 and onwards

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Originally Posted by Jon Jack

There are better locations that would make it easier for those teams in the western part of the country to attend.

While other cities may be better for west coast teams I don't see nationals going to far west in the near future... I mean just look at a population distribution diagram. It's more or less east coast and west coast centered. Then look at a diagram of FIRST team in the US, then it becomes even more polarized to the coasts. Given, there are major cities "midway" between the coasts, I don't think any make sense to put an event like nationals there because logistically more teams would have to fly in. I know that with nationals in Atlanta a lot of teams up the east coast drive down (we live in the northernmost part of PA and drove down) and unfortunately most teams from the west coast have to fly (I'm not sure if any drove or not). With nationals in the middle of the country I believe it would increase the number of teams that would need to fly... I could be wrong though. And also I think that having CNN in Atlanta is a huge plus (they arranged a satellite feed to a local news station).