I know this is a very random question but I’ve been thinking about it all day while wathcing CMP’s.
Does anyone have any Idea how many offical FIRST Breakaway Fields there are in exsistance?
Edit: By Offical I mean they ones they uses at Regionals ETC., and then that they rent out for off-season events.
There are 11 fields not including the Hawaii, Israel and two Michigan fields. You can see where these fields traveled throughout the season in the PDF in this thread on the FIRST forums.
And they use the carpet all over the place. I noticed that the carpet in the Scholarship Area had black dots to line up balls. 
Now looking at the chart, it looks like a brand new field was used for Einstein, and bu the looks of it from the webcast, I think it probably is. Am I right about that?
I seem to remember someone saying that somewhere along the line. I would assume that it’s true, just to keep an even field for the teams on Einstein (no pun intended).
The field rails and alliance stations are reused year-to-year. The field elements and carpet were probably brand new, though.
Bill’s Blog stated that the backup field, which has been in storage all season, was Einstein. The other traveling fields became the divisional and practice fields.
My suspisons for Einstein not being the backup field is that the backup field was suppsodly in Memphis week 1, then came to the champs, and is going back to NH this week. But the thing is underneeth the backup on the chart. Theres a blurb of 2 trucks going from NH during the week between week 5 and CMP, then has a CMP blurb with Einstein, and then goes back to NH with the other fields. - At least thats my speculation.
So Im guessing unlike with all the fields that were in Atlanta, unlike Regionals, the practice fields are the full fields? (It’s my Rookie year and I wasn’t in Atlanta.
Yes, there were two full sized practice fields, each for a pair of divisions.
Backup was in Tennessee all season, then went to the Championship and became Einstein. http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2010/04/two-weeks-to-go.html The two trucks from Manchester were other supplies.
Yes. Each field is shared between two divisions and six teams are typically allowed on at once.
Walking around on a brand new field is really magical. The carpet is pristine, none of the field elements are beat up, and the game objects are all brand new. It’s really fantastic.
The ones I managed to see were all tethered. I was thinking that teams could use a sort of fishing-pole cantilever to hold the CAT5 cable over the tops of their robots during practice. Some teams have to delve deeply into the guts to make a tether connection.