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Below is a list of selected views: (click to enlarge)

High altitude shot showing (front to back) the parking lot, box office and gate, intro A/V theaters, and the rest of the event in the background.

Note the height of the crane - this model is to scale!

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Reverse angle close up shot, looking through the power beaming arena.

Climber Row is the large building on the right, connected to the arena through the flagged pathway.

The large circular tube is the keep-out fence - The area inside this 125' radius arc is strictly for use by the teams.

(Large)

Zoom-out shot, comparing the qualification crane (~100') to the competition crane.

At 2 meters per second, it will take about 50 seconds to climb to the top!

(Large)

For an annotated, top-down, Google-maps aerial shot, see here.

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