Visited Koch during a late lunch to check out these newly obstructed seats. I believe there is very likely something being done or mulled about, as I interrupted a bit of a pow wow (PW). Included in said PW were some sort of a big wig in business formal, a WSU facilities management guy I've seen before (can't recall his name right now), and another poor guy that looked like he'd be tasked with the actual physical act of board relocation. They were sort of surrounding one of the offending boards, right by an interior arena exit, kind of collectively looking concerned as to the how and why of correcting a problem with no obvious or cheap/easy fix.
Totally true story.
EDIT: As for the board view obstruction: my quick and dirty survey indicated that it is mainly a problem on seats at/near baseline (due to the court boundary extending lower/closer via viewpoint than at sideline seats), and in areas where those first 2 rows directly above exits are on the same plane with each other (no step up from row 1 to row 2 - such an oddity actually exists). I'm 6'1", and the main problem I had was that oddball 2nd row, where it exists. This is definitely not a problem at every point where there is a seat behind a new LED board.
Totally true story.
EDIT: As for the board view obstruction: my quick and dirty survey indicated that it is mainly a problem on seats at/near baseline (due to the court boundary extending lower/closer via viewpoint than at sideline seats), and in areas where those first 2 rows directly above exits are on the same plane with each other (no step up from row 1 to row 2 - such an oddity actually exists). I'm 6'1", and the main problem I had was that oddball 2nd row, where it exists. This is definitely not a problem at every point where there is a seat behind a new LED board.
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