pic: Buckeye Regional Pits

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by AtalanteStar25

They did that last year at Las Vegas and this year at UTC. The only reason I can see for this is that the rookies have much easier access to some veterans who can help them with any problems they have. It would also allow them to share resources much easier. Instead of going across the pits to borrow a tool that may have been left at home or to grab a programmer, they just need to lean over into the neighboring pit and tap someone on the shoulder.

I agree, though, it does make it hard to find teams sometimes. At NJ, they stuck with just doing highest->lowest.

Chesapeake, IMHO, had the best pit layout I'd seen, roof leaks notwithstanding. You'd have a whole row of teams in numerical order, then shuffle the rows around until you had a proper mix. So if, say, I was looking for 75, I knew they'd be in the same row as 007--same if I was looking for a rookie team (they'd be in the high-numbered row). It was the perfect blend of mixing the rookies with the veterans and having a layout where you could actually find folks.