2005 Nationals

[Ian W.]

Originally Posted by suneel112

I think Atlanta is a great location for the Championship event. It is modern enough, warm enough, and has good restaurants, but too many escalators.

Someone obviously didn't get their media passes at Atlanta... :-p

[miketwalker]

Originally Posted by Cory

Nationals were in the Georgia Dome last year, and will be there until 2006 (I can't add ) at least (They had a 3 year contract, right? Or was it 6?)

Cory

It is a 3 year contract. Last year and this year are mandatory. However, FIRST can change locations next year if they wish to. I know FIRST was pleased this year with Atlanta, so I'd suspect that you will almost definitly have the Championship Event there for that 2006 date, and probably some sort of extension to the contract (unless Disney gets their act together and puts together a great proposal for FIRST)

-Mike

[Blacknight]

Atlanta was great but only having two elevators to bring tools and such into the pits was not fun. There were quite long lines to get down there and around 1ish all the teams finally got all their pit equipment. Hopefully this year they'll let us unload underneath (the way we loaded to leave)