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Ford Field is HUGE (as mentioned in my previous posts) and has many small buildings surrounding it for extra team pits, but, for example, if the Championships were in Detroit this year, Comerica Park is available from the 16th to the 21st, leaving 18 hours to set up tents ( it's a squeeze, but very possible), but if it was a week earlier, they would have 3 days to set up tents and have 2 days to tear down. Either way, that gives two very large venues to FIRST's disposal, putting the fields in Ford Field and the Pits at Comerica. The other Venue list (Joe Louis Arena/Cobo Hall/Cobo Arena) would be available at this time. You could put Einstein and others in Joe Louis and put any left over in Cobo Arena, leaving Cobo Hall for the pits. |
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Also, I'm not sure if St. Louis would be the best due to the airport not being as large as Detroit or Atlanta (although Atlana is a HUGE pain), but venue-wise they are a viable choice. Last edited by Tomasz Bania : 01-04-2008 at 23:03. |
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I would guess they have they have at least the next month reserved for potential playoff hockey. |
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Also, Just looking at the size of the U of Pheonix stadium, It looks much larger than the jobing.com arena. I don't know if you would want to use the jobing.com arena in that case. Have tents for the pits in part of the Parking Lot. Last edited by Tomasz Bania : 01-04-2008 at 23:11. |
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It was done for the Super Bowl from what I remember(put platforms over the field and set up tents on those platforms) and just looking at the schedule for JLA, they are setting up for a Def Leppard Concert Thursday and Friday of Nationals for a scheduled performance on Saturday, so it would be available.
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which is months before the season. It seems the Vans Warped Tour is the only other event during the season and that is during the All Star Break. JLA might work but we would have to split fields again. |
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I personally(my opinion) don't think that Detroit would be a good place to have it. Yeah it would be cool because it would be close and all being in Michigan, but again it has disaster written all over it(once again my opinion). There are no buildings that are even capable of housing everything that Atlanta does. The weather would not cooperate as it is Michigan, anything can happen. I love the setup that Atlanta has and I wouldn't complain one bit if they left it there as long as they could. There is a saying I hear all the time "Don't fix it if it ain't broke", Atlanta isn't "broke" why leave?(other than just having it somewhere else) Also Atlanta does a very good job in my opinion accomodating FIRST.
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Is it me or are the FIRST Championships getting later in the month of April?
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Not really, in '06 they were from 4/27-4/29 and in '07 it was pretty close to this year's time.
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the problem with convention centers, is most of them are built out, not up, and how would you be able to fit fans to watch the final matches?
you ned a dome type stadum, here are a list of a few University of Pheonix stadium-Glendale AZ Metrodome-Minnianappolis MN / vickings new possable stadium Texas Stadium-Irving TX / New Dallas Cowboys Stadium-Arlington TX RCA Dome/ New Colts Stadium-Indianappolis IN. Ford Field-Detroit MI Georgia Dome-Atlanta GA Reliant Stadium Complex-Huston TX Skydome-Toronto ON That one stadium in St. Louis MO... can't remember it's name the Superdome-New Orleans LA and my pick, if there is a convention center/space nearby ALAMO DOME COMPLEX IN SAN ANTONIO TEXAS |
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Just because it's close to you doesn't make it better! I think I can speak for a lot of people, if I'm walking around a lot outside to-from hotel and between various other places, I'M NOT DOING IT IN THE COLD. End of story. Same with rain. I'd love to see them move to someplace up north and have everyone comlpain about the high being 50, finally putting this issue to bed. Hell, I'd STOP GOING if moving around champs would make me feel terrible. Atlanta is perfect (except for the crime, oops) with the weather, price, hotels, location, etc. |
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