Just out of curiosity. I wasn’t able to find it on Firstinspires.org
My guess is they were going to make an announcement about 2021 dates/locations at this year’s events… It’s probably all up in the air for now depending on how they’ll handle the rest of the 2020 season.
Yet to find a confirmed date, as both the Houston and Detroit championships have been cancelled rather than postponed for this year. Its all up to how well we can deal with the Coronavirus because booking new venues after it blows over will take a while. I believe that the 2021 season will not be postponed to make way for this season as FIRST will try to reschedule events all the way up until the new season launch on Jan 9th 2021.
Before the COVID-19 stuff, we didn’t know when, where, or how many FIRST Championship(s) details for 2021 and on. All we knew was that we would probably find out details at the 2020 Championships. We still don’t know any of the details, but now we also don’t know when we’ll know.
Once the information is public, it will likely be posted on http://firstchampionship.org/ pretty early on after the announcement.
Does anyone know if or when they will change the cities that championships are being held in? Detroit is nice and all but I would like to see champs change cities every few years just so students can experience new things
Keep it on the East coast, because prices are horribly egregious here out West!
I think a lot of people have Indy at the top of the list, which I think would benefit a lot more teams travel wise, but I haven’t looked in depth into the subject too much.
If still doing the “north” “south” champs then Detroit worked quite well for travel wise I feel if not go a little more east towards New England area (not that far but more that way) FIM, ONT, FMA, FIN, and NE would be your densest areas so a midpoint of those 5 would be ideal travel wise. Just thinking of major cities no idea on feasibility here but maybe a Cleveland?
No place in Cleveland is big enough besides the IX center and it doesn’t seam big enough to host champs with FTC FLL and FLL jr maby just FRC
Well then buffalo then? still feel that would still be a good geographical fit.
Philie might not be bad
Maybe you do 5 champs, and bring in St. Louis, Las Vegas, and Louisville.
Please stop suggesting things. The worst most sarcastic ideas have a habit of becoming true.
I think Indy could work. Champs was in NFL stadiums for quite a long time wasn’t it? I’m thinking that the fields could all be right next to each other in the dome and pits could be in the tunnels and rooms surrounding the fields. Those are just guesses though and I have no idea if there’s actually enough space. I’ve only been to Lucas Oil twice for DCI / BOA events so FRC wasn’t exactly the first thing on my mind. There’s also a convention hall across the street from Lucas Oil but I don’t think there’s a practical way for teams to move between the two buildings - they’d either have to cross a street or go down stairs / escalators as far as I know.
Georgia World Congress Center is pretty large:
It looks like buildings B and C together are double the size of where FRC was in GRB and Cobo, and building A could easily hold the other programs. The new stadium is a short walk. You could probably do OneChamp there and still invite 800 FRC teams plus the other programs.
Cobo:. https://www.tcfcenterdetroit.com/planners/floor-plans
George R Brown: https://www.grbhouston.com/planners/dimensions-capacities/
Chicago has a pretty huge convention center and is a major hub, but no stadium close by (at least I don’t recall there is - it’s been a while). Though I’m not sure that matters since they were skipping stadiums this year.
Were you in FIRST when GWCC was the pits and the Georgia Dome was the fields? Pits tended to be Building C, fields in the Dome. The exception was 2004 when the pits were in A, and that was a LONG walk.
I suspect you could put FRC pits in A, B, OR C, FRC fields in one of the remaining three, FTC/FLL/JFLL in the third, move everybody over to the CNN center (Hawks/hockey) for finals (if you must move), and have room upstairs for volunteers/other stuff. Seeing as you don’t have to store as many crates more room will be available.
No, my first champs was in St. Louis in 2014, so just working off of maps/areas and memory of having been there for other things. I could be totally missing something, but I’m assuming it would follow the current model with fields in the convention center. Maybe I’ll try to map it out to make a better guess.
As someone who was there 2004-2007…
Hall C worked well for the pits (short walk to the Dome for playing on the 4 fields). FLL and FVC/FTC were pitted in the same place, playing on Einstein and behind it. I don’t think we were using all of C, either. A was even bigger but the walk was LONG… Might be OK if B was fields. If i was doing the layout, A or C pits, B fields, upstairs would be the various conference rooms/innovation fair/volunteer/judge/VIP areas.
That said, I’d rather one of the Championship events be somewhere west of the Rocky Mountains for once.
OneChamps at McCormick Place in Chicago would be cool but honestly I don’t think FIRST is big enough for it. McCormick Place is huge.
If your going to do all that why not just do super regionals like FTC used to have and bring #OneChamps back.