pic: Houston Venue for Championship 2017

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

If each field has 100 ft of 15 row bleachers on each side, about 1200 per field could be seated. Each field would occupy about 16,000 sq.ft. This would be much larger than the pit-area fields that St. Louis used a few years ago, but I think it is necessary to provide enough seating in subdivisions. Einstein will be another matter -- not sure how that is going to fit in a convention hall.

So if the fields take up 64K SqF, that would leave about 440K SqF on the first floor for pits etc. Which is 150K SqF more than was allotted to FRC pits this year for 600 teams. Provided there is enough rentable seating available in Houston, I think FIRST can manage to have enough seating available around the fields.

Originally Posted by Tim Sharp

"Bleachers" and "Comfortable" are oxymorons

Xavier is referring to the pullout seating on the 3rd floor of GRB. It's made of individual molded, padded seats with armrests and everything:

I can assure you it is indeed quite comfortable, but I don't know if it's the seating that will be used on the 1st floor where FRC is bound to land.

Originally Posted by Xavbro

The convention center is very large and has 3 different floors. If they only have 4 divisions, I can see it all fitting nicely in the convention center. Maybe two divisions on the first and second floor with Einstein being on the 3rd floor. FLL and FTC could be on the third floor all together.

Xavier, there's 3 floors but only 1st and 3rd have actual floor space. 2nd floor is a long hallway, a few conference room, and some windows staring out into the 35' of ceiling space on 1st floor.