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Re: Location Suggestion for 2010 Championship

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Originally Posted by Joe Matt View Post
FIRST needs to grow a pair and play hardball with the hurting Disney right now and get some good rates for their rooms. Bookings are down year over year, who wouldn't want about ten THOUSAND people guaranteed in rooms for about a week that will buy park admission, eat, and buy stuff?

I say Indy though becase they are courting FIRST, and knowing FIRST's somewhat passive nature, they will go with them. I was in Indy this past summer for GAC and had lots of fun. There is a great shopping area, a GameWorks, several large hotels, lots of cheap/well priced food, and for those my age, bars.

I have a good feeling FIRST will not be going back to Atlanta mainly due to the crime in the area. My sister saw a guy get shot in Centenial Park.
Rooms don't matter if there's no venue. I don't see FIRST shelling out to erect another tent city when they now need to include a massive number of FLL and FTC teams. Back in 2002 I remember the lego league area being like a small corner of one tent. Now it's huge. FTC is equally large.

I think Atlanta is a great venue, but the city leaves a lot to be desired. There's not really anything for the kids to do after the event, as everything closes early (the mall, the CNN center, etc) I've never had the concerns about safety that other people have. I've never felt any less safe in Atlanta than I have in San Francisco, San Jose, New York, LA, or any other major city.

The problem is Disney was too perfect for the teams. If we had never gone to Disney and we had been in Atlanta all this time, we probably wouldn't be enjoying it any more than we do now, but we wouldn't have anything better to compare it to.
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