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Venue Information

New York State Fairgrounds

​NY State Finals @ NYS Fairgrounds is a Drug and Tobacco Free Campus

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All venues will be open from 6:30am

No Drones or Smoke Machines are allowed at any competition site

Micron Center of Progress
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Competition site

Problem 1: Off the Rails

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Activities​​

Souvenir Sales

Pin Trading

Dance Party

T-Shirt Toss

Awards Ceremony

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No balls of any type may be thrown

at the Awards Ceremony

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Horticulture Building
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Competition Site

Problem 4: Life's a Ball

- Divisions 1 & 2/3

Problem 2: Lost in OMERland

- Division 2/3

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Art & Home Center
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Competition Site

Problem 3: Classics...The Epic Quest

- Divisions 1, 2 & 3

Problem 2: Lost in OMERland

- Division 1

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Team Registration

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Solvay High School
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Competition Site

Problem 5: Taller Tales of John Jivery

- Divisions 1, 2 & 3

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Spontaneous Competition (NO PUBLIC ENTRY)

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Solvay HS
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There will be 3 shuttle buses running continuously from the Science and Industry Building to Solvay High School and then back to the Fairgrounds.

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Teams who drive props to the venue may drop them at the front and then go park in the designated prop parking lots, using the supplied Prop Parking Pass. There is no general parking at the school but plenty of free street parking as well as overflow parking (see below). That being said, we encourage supporters to use the shuttle buses and leave their cars at the Fairgrounds.

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The right sided entrance at the front of the school is for Problem 5 Division 2 Teams and Props as well as concessions/sales.

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The left side entrance at the front of the school is for Problem 5 Division 1 & 3 Teams and Props as well for Spontaneous.

 

There is no parking in the bus loop.

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Only 1 coach may accompany the team to the spontaneous registration (Second Floor) and the holding rooms.

Overflow Parking

This year we have secured two additional parking lots for overflow parking.

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The first is at an apartment complex, the Third @ St Cecelias, 103 3rd St, Syracuse, NY 13209

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Odyssey parking is not permited in any of the residents' parking areas but only the unmarked section to the right after you enter on 3rd Street.

 

Police WILL be ticketing if you park illegally.

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The second, larger area, is behind the Solvay HS football field.

 

Enter on Hazard Street. There is a footpath back to the school.

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