I understand that the layout of the venue changed from last year. I was not pleased to see that the spectators were only allowed to be directly under the judges podium 100 feet from the floor or at the sides of the floor. I took up photography as a hobby to make the competitions a little more tolerable and neither of those locations combined with the poor lighting were conducive to getting decent shots.
Why was the space between the floor and the judges podium off limits? The floor was sufficiently high as was the judges podium that they could have easily allowed standing spectators behind where the sound system and the coaches were.
