Megadome

The Megadome is a wooden domed stadium on the Trading Quarter campus of Blackburn University, Noble City in Noble City, Sylvania. It is home to the American football program of Blackburn University, the Noble City Little League Baseball team, and the Noble City Outlaws of Major League Baseball (MLB), as well as a variety of campus and community events, and even conventions, trade fairs, concerts, travelling carnivals, and monster truck shows.

The dome is 143 feet (44 m) tall, has a diameter of 536 feet (163 m), and covers an area of 5.1 acres (21,000 m2). It is a geodesic dome constructed with 781 Douglas Fir beams and 108.5 miles (174.6 km) of fir decking. The dome is designed to support snow up to 60 pounds per square foot (2.9 kPa) and withstand 80-mile-per-hour (130 km/h) winds. It has a permanent seating capacity of 8,000, though the building can hold as many as 16,000 people (like 16,734 people for baseball games).

Construction
The construction was finished in two phases: Phase I and Phase II. Phase I was finished in September 1987 and included the construction of the domed complex. Phase II, completed in May 1988, added locker rooms, department offices, meeting rooms, concession areas, a retail store and other building amenities. Phase I of the project cost US$21.8 million and was funded entirely by the Lovian government. Phase II was completed for $2.1 million, with US$800,000 in private donations and US$1.3 million in loans. Total cost for the Megadome stands at US$23.9 million.

Use
The New College American football program christened the dome, opening it with a game lost to the Noble City Academy of Music and Dramatic Art's short-lived American football program, 8-11.

In 1990, it replaced The Outlaws' Saloon as the home ballpark of the National League's Noble City Outlaws. As a part of the team's grant to be an expansion team, a domed stadium was supposed to be in place for the 1990 baseball season. However, due to The Outlaw's Saloon's dome roof's manufacturer going bankrupt, the Outlaws chose the Megadome at the words of the university's rector at the time, Mick Dervish. The Outlaw's Saloon was demolished (the Lovia International Circuit's parking lot sits on the site currently) and the turf was sent to the Megadome. The first game at the Megadome was played on August 27th, 1990. In front of 16,789 people, the Outlaws won 9-7 against the Montreal Expos. However, the Outlaws had to use dynamite to blow up the locks because the landlord didn't have a master key.

The dome features a SoftTop Removable Matrix System turf for football, and has an AstroTurf surface for baseball. The Outlaws' current AstroTurf baseball field was originally used at Cardinal Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.