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(03-12-2018 01:09 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  B'ham STILL needs the MPF to compete for major conventions and other larger and smaller events like those that kept the GA Dome busy year round.

Which major conventions used the Georgia Dome (as opposed to the Georgia World Congress Center or America's Mart)?

I only see things like the Jehovah's Witnesses and Primerica (a Ponzi scheme) that actually needed an auditorium that size for their convention. Everything else went to the more typical convention spaces that are like the BJCC.

And I worked at a Microsoft coders conference at the Georgia Dome once - where they were using the floor for convention space (and not the seats) and it was very awkward. It was like a scene out of HBOs Silicon Valley... lots of money clearly spent, lightly attended, America's Got Talent act on one end, Go karts on another, a MIG jet in the middle for some reason.