I'll pay a lot of money for the person that can give me a picture of BC Place in soccer mode without the retractable roof out
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You probably won't get that shot until A) a big name friendly comes about B) Vancouver hosts the MLS Cup final or C) Vancouver hosts a CCL playoff match.
The roof is an exterior element. The roof is open (ie. not out) in the photo I showed. If he didn't want to see the soccer ceiling he should have said so. BTW his post reminded me of the SNL skit "You can never put too much water into a nuclear reactor".
Does anyone know if the upper deck tarps will return in their current "blanket" form of if they will be replaced with something more like Seattle's advertising covered tarps that actually cover the seats?
What do people think of this stadium? I watched the Grey Cup there last year and thought the stadium absolutely sucks. What a waste of taxpayer money. There was no light streaming into the stadium as it appears to do in fifa 12.
I am officially old......I have never judged a stadium by how it compares to any digital representation of it in a video game!
It should also be pointed out that the Grey Cup occurs in late November, when the sun is significantly lower in the sky than during the summer months. And video games take significant creative license with such things as sun positioning.
The point I'm trying to make is, it feels very much like a domed indoor stadium rather than some form of hybrid type stadium which filters any light in. I don't even see the point of the roof. They might as well have taped giant bed sheets to the roof.
The Caps played 4 games there last year. 2 were night games, one was a 4pm start in late October where the roof was closed, and the only afternoon game was cloudy.
Your opinion is not shared by the majority including people I would assume have seen a lot more stadiums then yourself.
I attended every Whitecaps and Women's Olympic Qualification Tournament match at BC Place, as well as BC Place. My feeling is it's good but not great. The concessions still need alot of refinement to get them moving faster for one thing. But that can be fixed. Many will complain that despite the retractable roof, you still feel like you are indoors. While this is true, I've watched enough games in the pissing rain in my life to not take this as a bag thing.
My biggest disappointment was that you feel like you're indoors. I thought the new roof was going to alleviate that feeling.
It's not much of an assumption that professional footballers/broadcasters/journalists who have played/watched around the world have seen more Stadiums then someone who saw a throwball match in November and complained about the natural light not coming in.
So because some caps players in public say it's nice and some journalists say it's good? What do you think they're going to say? Please ask the average fan what they think of that place and you get a real response. Ask the Southsiders or voyageurs, they're not overly impressed.