Dusan Vavic
Years ago
Seating Saga All Star Weekend
I can now confirm that there will not be extra seating installed on court two. We have been told by BASA and Badge Construction that extra seating is not allowed to be placed on the second court, due to the problems of that court. Legalities enter into the condition of the court 2 floor. We were told of this last night.
Before everyone starts sounding off about bad planning, changing courts and other such hints that this weekend wasn't planned out properly, I will endeavour to explain the process.
Extra seating was considered and planned, and contingency plans were used when the seating from Wayville was not available (show seating owned by show people and seating used for Lightning to big to fit inro Pasadena). Companies were approached about hiring extra seating and was just about sealed when we were notified no.
The state of the court caught us by surprise and we did push the point that the seating would be on side lines, not on the court, and we had engineering input as well.
Cannot change stadiums. Wayville has Royal show, Dome is only available Saturday and Mt Barker might affect people's decision to go (water bag trip - not).
Another main reason Pasadena was chosen was that the Sturt basketball club has offered 50/% of canteen and bar takings (after all costs have been met) to be shared amongst the three teams going to Geelong (although Mavs president was confident they could do the same - but their bar and canteen is another matter.)
Also , remember they had a huge crowd at the Mavs/Sabres finals game.
Sorry about that.
Dusan