Speedway Village — Local services in Lincoln

I was here for the 2016 USARS Indoor National (IDN) Speed Skating Championships. The facility was pretty nice, definitely spacious and clean. I can't give it a 5 star rating though due to the following reasons:

ACCESSIBILITY - There was no way to get up to the 2nd floor, except for using the stairs. Personally, this wasn't a problem, but if I were in a wheelchair or handicapped in a way that didn't allow me to use the stairs, this would obviously not afford me the full experience at an event where most, if not all, of the vendor booths are at an event such as IDN.

SEATING - There were many instances where spectators in our group had to stand for hours at a time, due to a lack of seating. Standing room only is not easy on the body after a few hours!

WIFI - Most cellular provider signals seem to have a difficult, if not impossible time penetrating through the infrastructure of the building, making it impossible to communicate with people both inside and outside of the building. If the wifi network was better (stronger wireless access point signals, better download & upload speeds, more bandwidth, etc), then this wouldn't be as big of a problem. People with wifi calling could utilize that feature, or people could use apps to make voice and/or video calls. Coming from a telecommunications background, you guys really need to reach out to a specialist and beef that up, at least temporarily during high attendance events such as IDN.

If you guys don't know anyone that specializes in telecom/IT, I would be happy to assist as a consultant and/or technician while there this year. Just have Kevin Kmetz with USARS get ahold of me and we can...

$8 per adult admission. Facility was large, at least 6 courts. Had nice balcony areas for optimum viewing. Must bring your own chairs or stand, due to COVID. Players, coaches, refs, & spectators must wear masks. My biggest complaints are: why wouldn't a facility like this have the staff to cover score keeping? I mean, we all pay admission for each day.... you would think they could cover score keepers. Another thing, are the refs just there to get some exercise? All they did was run back & forth with the whistles. There were OBVIOUS fouls and they NEVER called them! It seemed like they got a kick out of it because they just kind of laughed at the fouls. We do play competitive league and if the refs aren't calling stuff - it's not teaching the kids anything....

Nice facility, very poorly run. We were at the facility for a NXTPRO tournament and the score keepers kept adding our points to the other team. They even kept changing the possession arrow every time each team touched the ball. Even the opposing coach tried to straighten the issue out, but the score keepers and referees didn't care. I found the event coordinator for the facility (Not NXTPRO) and he basically dismissed everyone. Traveling close to 400 miles one way for this and spending what we all spend, everyone involved expected a more professional operation. If you are reading this definitely look elsewhere in Lincoln, NE. These aren't sour grapes, we won the game 75/73, but it really should have been 78/64. It was an...