Championship Uncrating

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I hate to burst everyone's bubble here, but early uncrating (up until this point - and I'm going to assume in '09) is optional in Atlanta.
You don't HAVE to be in there Wednesday night, it just helps a bit if you have an elaborate pit set-up, and also helps with the logicistics of removing crates from the venue by the crew of the shipping/drayage company.

We all uncrate the same morning we arrive at every one of the regionals we attend, so what's the big deal if you don't uncrate Wednesday night in Atlanta?

If you are really that worried about not being able to uncrate because of a time change, just get to the venue earlier.
I'll also question if early uncrating is moved up, then will the driver's meeting be moved up as well to an earlier time?
We had a lot of (exscuse my bluntness) really dumb questions at last year's driver's meeting which teams whould have known by the time Atlanta rolled around which wasted a lot of time in 2008, that pushed that meeting really behind schedule, but that's a whole other topic altogether.

As far as traffic in Atlanta, I'm going to guess only a few percentage of the teams who travel to atlanta even care about street traffic.
Public transportation is completely filled by FIRSters from all over the place while in Atlanta, & so are sidewalks.

Sorry to the locals, and to those who drive to Atlanta & use their cars, but you're in the smallest percentile of that argument.


Anddd... since I'm on a roll here... lol

Originally Posted by David Brinza

I agree with Jason - why not move the kickoff an hour later?

I would argue that Kickoff is recorded & available as both a video & transcripted written archive at any time you want to wake up & watch (or read) it that day, and from that point on all season. To those who complain about the start time of kickoff, how many of you actually watch the whole thing?
Do you skip right to the game unveiling instead of watching the whole thing like the important speeches, & statistics about the program you love?
Be honest.