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Originally Posted by Jay Random
People don't sit on the middle steps of a ladder. The comparison is invalid.
The seats are still the same horizontal distance from front to back. The legroom in front of each seat is still the same horizontal distance. Each tier of seats is level and takes up a certain horizontal distance, no matter how much higher or lower the row behind and the row in front are.
Am I going to have to draw a diagram?
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Well the whole point of steeper arenas is improved sight lines. I understand your point and don’t need a diagram, thank you. If you just make it higher it may not necessarily be closer. But the further away you are, the higher you want to be in order to view the playing surface.
Isn’t it accepted now that newer stadiums have more of a stacked approach, trading off knee room? More like a ladder, less like gradual stairs. This is especially true in upper decks.
But to answer your original question, if I’m 100 feet from the playing surface I’d rather be higher than on the ground.