bluechipper Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 (edited) I was conversing midday yesterday with some friends, and we were wondering about what the state finals would be like in a different venue. To my understanding, there's a little over 10,000 people per session at the IHSAA state finals. Bankers Life Fieldhouse is an 18,000+ seat multi-purpose arena, and if a little over 10,000 are at each session, that leaves roughly 7,000-8,000 seats empty during the tournament. What would the event look like in Evansville's Ford Center (11,000+ seating) or Fort Wayne's Allen County War Memorial Coliseum (13,000+ seating)? I don't expect the tournament to run any different, just wondering what the atmosphere would be like in a different venue. Many talk about home-field advantage in sports, and that makes me wonder about matches like the Red/Lee match. Would an already pro-Lee crowd be more intense if the match took place in Evansville? Curious and interested in hearing opinions on this. Edited March 22, 2017 by bluechipper ontherise219 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2CJ41 Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 The seating capacity for hockey is about 12,300. The 18,000 figure you use is a basketball setup. There are not 8,000 empty seats at the finals. MOWrestler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOWrestler Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 I don't actually think a smaller venue would make much change to the atmosphere. In BL most of the 'empty seats' are just the "nose bleed" seats. The area close to the wrestling is still pretty much packed. So I don't think you get an 'empty' sort of feeling that happens in some cases when the venue is much too large for the event. I am also curious about the capacity of BL because it seems like some of the seating is retracted, so I'm not sure how many empty seats there actually are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FCFIGHTER170 Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Anybody go to the finals the year they were at the NC Fieldhouse? I worder what that was like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrestling Scholar Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 I was conversing midday yesterday with some friends, and we were wondering about what the state finals would be like in a different venue. To my understanding, there's a little over 10,000 people per session at the IHSAA state finals. Bankers Life Fieldhouse is an 18,000+ seat multi-purpose arena, and if a little over 10,000 are at each session, that leaves roughly 7,000-8,000 seats empty during the tournament. What would the event look like in Evansville's Ford Center (11,000+ seating) or Fort Wayne's Allen County War Memorial Coliseum (13,000+ seating)? I don't expect the tournament to run any different, just wondering what the atmosphere would be like in a different venue. Many talk about home-field advantage in sports, and that makes me wonder about matches like the Red/Lee match. Would an already pro-Lee crowd be more intense if the match took place in Evansville? Curious and interested in hearing opinions on this. A lot of people go to Indy for state tournament due to Indy's central location. Its right in the middle of the state. If you moved it to Evansville, 1000s people would not attend because they wouldn't want to drive there. It would just be very inconvenient. MOWrestler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat Shark Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Worst nightmare...class wrestling in Ft. Wayne State Finals. No thanks. Y2CJ41 and guillotine 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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