BIG!!! Championship Location in Question

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally posted by D.J. Fluck
This hasnt been confirmed yet that FIRST dropped Disney....

What is everyone getting so excited for already?

Im sure someone at FIRST was editing the site and they forgot to put back EPCOT as the venue....but that isnt confirmed yet either...

so all we can do now is sit back and wait for an announcement

Yeah, I'm just not going to worry about it ... unless of course it is in Appleton's Walmart [cough]Ryan[/cough] ...

It could go either way. In any case, there's not much we can do about it, right?

- Katie

[Greg Perkins]

Originally posted by Team522 Captain
all dean has to do is pave a a nice size parking lot about half the size of NH put up a stadium for about 6 stages and put up nearly 300 30 story hotels.

Too much money huh. asking for a wee bit too much.

still I say move it some where, where theres alot of media coverage. or move it to a near empty state. North Dakota or something. hehe.


I am the most selfish person when I see change. I like the way things were.

Hey, NH is fairly good sized, although u r right, not enoguh hotels in the area, but plenty of wooded areas, byot (bring your own tent!) hey we could have it in my backyard, o wait, i live in a residential neighborhood, no room, o darn


badjokeguy

[Tom Schindler]

I'm not sure when this was updated, but they changed the Championship location from blank to "TBD"

Wierd.... i guess that rules out the removed it and forgot to re-enter it theory.... unless they are playing mind games with us...

Who knows!

Tom

[iceman_21]

seems to me that baseball is heading south. Tampa and Montreal might not exist next year. Tampa has a HUGE stadium and if FIRST wants they could have their own official venue there. That way you still get cheap flights into FL, and teams with the funds can still make that special day trip to Orlando to reward their members. Seems to me you can fit 6 fields on a baseball field and the pits could be spread throughout the ground floor of a stadium. Plus the FIRST atmosphere would rule in that setting. Just an idea.



US FIRST STADIUM. YAYAYAYAYYAYA

[Joe Matt]

I think were reading to much into this. Do we think the one guy who wrote this one day before lunch break reall is in the "know"? He probably just didn't fill it out, uploaded it, and then went to Arbys...

[A. Leese]

*hopes the comp is still in Florida*

If not, I no go...*tear* unless someone wants to either bribe my rents into letting me spend my bank account or pay for me *nudges a random stranger*


how about using ProPlayer Stadium (im used to the old name..forgive me if im wrong) in Miami? heaven knows marlins fans could care less if they couldnt watch spring training....

[Elgin Clock]

Two Words, Vegas Baby!!!!

[Mike Schroeder]

Two Words - Meadowlands (oh wait thats one word) anyway umm everyone can come to New Jersey who cares if there ain't no room on the roads, we have a bad public transportation, but we got the Meadowlands

[Madison]

Originally posted by Mr.Volcano
Two Words - Meadowlands (oh wait thats one word) anyway umm everyone can come to New Jersey who cares if there ain't no room on the roads, we have a bad public transportation, but we got the Meadowlands

For the Team Social, we can all trudge out into the swamps and look for Jimmy Hoffa!!

[Joe Matt]

Originally posted by Michael Krass


For the Team Social, we can all trudge out into the swamps and look for Jimmy Hoffa!!

FIRST- Building robots and solving mysteries. Next years expedition will be finding Nessie. Followed by a lovely voyage to the Alps to find the Yetti!

[Collin Fultz]

Originally posted by Elgin Clock
Two Words, Vegas Baby!!!!

AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN. Vegas would be perfect. it's a little west but not too much. lots and lots of hotels. all we need is a venue...thinking thinking thinking...outskirts of LV there has to be something. maybe we can meet the people from CSI... the only problem would be the open ness to gambling and drinking etc. hey, wasn't there a thread about jello shots earlier? hmmmmm.........


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DOWN WITH DISNEY

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally posted by collin234

AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN. Vegas would be perfect. it's a little west but not too much. lots and lots of hotels. all we need is a venue...thinking thinking thinking...outskirts of LV there has to be something. maybe we can meet the people from CSI... the only problem would be the open ness to gambling and drinking etc. hey, wasn't there a thread about jello shots earlier? hmmmmm.........


to resurect an old debate
DOWN WITH DISNEY

Haven't we been over this before? Be a little more gracious, please. Remember, Disney has let us use their space for three straight days. They shut down a quarter of one of their facilities for us. The thing is, we are just getting too big for them. Disney has been great to us - "DOWN WITH DISNEY" is highly inappropriate. Think before you speak.

- Katie

[Mike Schroeder]

Haven't we been over this before? Be a little more gracious, please. Remember, Disney has let us use their space for three straight days. They shut down a quarter of one of their facilities for us. The thing is, we are just getting too big for them. Disney has been great to us - "DOWN WITH DISNEY" is highly inappropriate. Think before you speak.

Yea what she said

[Joe3]

What about delaware? We could take over the whole state, and use the hotels and then set up a few fields in the farmlands of Slower Lower Delaware. The only problems I see is that the airports would all be 2-3 hours away, lack of public transportation, horrible roads, and that we would probably double the state population for a few days. What you think? As for entertainment, we can watch grass grow, as there isn't much else to do.

[Madison]

Originally posted by collin234

AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN. Vegas would be perfect. it's a little west but not too much. lots and lots of hotels. all we need is a venue...thinking thinking thinking...outskirts of LV there has to be something.

There's a desert! Otherwise, nothing. There is only Las Vegas, and seeing how Dean got his panties in a twist over a rap video, Las Vegas seems out of the question; despite it's late 90's campaign to become a family destination.

to resurect an old debate
DOWN WITH DISNEY

Umm, okay.

I think it speaks volumes that nobody has been able to suggest a widely known, obviously available, right-sized, family-friendly venue. At all. FIRST is too big for most convention centers and too small for stadiums.

Disney is the perfect size, environment, and image for FIRST's partnership, I think. Amy mentioned something today that, whether you agree with the reasons or not, will be largely true - people will leave teams if Walt Disney World isn't in the picture. It may not be because they're not interested in FIRST, or because they're in it for the free trip, but because Walt Disney World is a visible, tangible, achievable goal. . . because people who haven't otherwise experienced FIRST know that, no matter what, they can have fun at the end.

Can anyone make any other realistic suggestions about venues that match that appeal, recognition, and practicality? I can't think of any.