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Originally Posted by Overyourhead
If FTC is seen as a warm up for FRC Why cant FTC get the one are in the Georgia Dome. As of now the Divinci field in in the back of the Dome not mainly seen by the crowd. A Huge plus to competing in Atlanta is the factt hat you are on the same field that the Atlanta Falcons play on and you are surrounded by thousands of seats and thousands of people. This year the FTC and FLL pits were taken away from the FRC Pits. This made the FTC pits rather boring IMO. Upon entering the FRC Pits the talk to an FRC team my FTC team went down to Atlanta with. I noticed the buzz and crazyness in the room. It seamed MUCH more cramped than last year. but it was so exciting.
I'm just trying to get my point across. Saying that the FTC teams gain nothing by competing on the field, I think you are wrong. How would you feel if they stuck each division of FRC in a separate hall of the GWCC?
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I'd go anyway, if I could. It's not the location, it's the event. Would you go hang out in a drafty blimp hangar because there's a FIRST event going on there or because it's a blimp hangar? (SVR--then the California Regional--in 1999) I kind of think you're in this to be on the GA Dome floor--at least that's the impression I get from your posts.
The reason FTC is in the back is that's about the only place they can put it. Einstein (main stage) is front and center because it's where the show happens. FLL goes on there because they can pick up easily--move a dozen tables and put the field in. The corners are FRC to allow for seating. Would you rather FTC go between Einstein and, say, Curie? And fight for seating with the FRC teams? I think not!
The problem is, both FRC and FTC are growing rapidly. FRC has 84 teams per division this year. If they keep adding regionals, they won't have room for all the current teams to play. So they'll need to a) make more divisions (more fields) or b) increase the size of the divisions, which are already pretty much maxed out. (GTR has had a 2-field regional in the past. They had about the same number of teams as ONE division, as I recall.) So make more divisions, which may happen anyway to allow more matches.
Now where do you put those other divisions? On the floor, of course. There's room. But either FRC or FTC will need to move something. FTC is more easily moved, due to the fact that they can be in pretty much any height of room and FRC needs 20 feet or more in a typical year. So FTC would need to move elsewhere.
Now, if FTC were moved, they would probably wind up in the GWCC. There's a lot of room there--enough for more than two fields (and thus, more than two divisions). Not in the pits, necessarily, but in the GWCC. So FTC gets more matches, more teams, and presumably, more fun.
And the reason the FTC and FLL pits were separate this year was tornado damage and having to share space with a car show.