FRC Blogged - Share your FIRST Story, and *Preliminary* Championship Match Schedules
 

Taken from the FRC Blog, 4/22/13: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...atch-schedules

Preliminary!

Re: FRC Blogged - Share your FIRST Story, and *Preliminary* Championship Match Schedu
 

**Disclaimer: I know they're preliminary**

I only see 8 matches per team in the qualification schedules. I thought they were aiming for 10.

Re: FRC Blogged - Share your FIRST Story, and *Preliminary* Championship Match Schedu
 

Scout team, assemble! preliminarily

Re: FRC Blogged - Share your FIRST Story, and *Preliminary* Championship Match Schedu
 

Nice, sounds like these match schedules are permanent and here to stay! Nope, no possible changes can be made to these here schedules whatsoever.

/sarcasm

:) This is cool though, I know a lot of students and mentors who are going to lose sleep over this.

I am concerned about the number of matches though...

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The whole first paragraph is awesome. Forwarding this on to my alumni.

Re: FRC Blogged - Share your FIRST Story, and *Preliminary* Championship Match Schedu
 

Anybody else wondering what motivated them to release a (preliminary) match schedule? Like he said in the post there are a lot of things different about this year and this is the only one that surprises me. Although I am kind of glad to see that our first match is with 1114 (preliminary that is) ;)

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Anyone feel like doing an OPR based prediction? Our schedule does not look very favourable... :(

Re: FRC Blogged - Share your FIRST Story, and *Preliminary* Championship Match Schedu
 

Ugh! WHy do the champs need a practice schedule?
They should do it the MSC way and just do it on a first come/ first served basis.
It's alot easier than dealing with a filler line that will be backed up to the pits with inspected teams.

Re: FRC Blogged - Share your FIRST Story, and *Preliminary* Championship Match Schedu
 

My preliminary reaction is: 1 practice match and only 8 qualification matches? We only get to play 40% of the field during quals...

Last year they gave us 9 qualification matches with the same number of teams in each division.

Re: FRC Blogged - Share your FIRST Story, and *Preliminary* Championship Match Schedu
 

I agree, 8 seems like a small amount of matches for each team. Lots of teams to fit in, but hard to seed well with only 8 matches.

Re: FRC Blogged - Share your FIRST Story, and *Preliminary* Championship Match Schedu
 

Welcome to the traditional regional system, where my team pays $14k for the same number of qualification rounds Michigan teams get with $5k. The best part is when teams luck out so hard on schedules, they rank first without scoring any disc points.

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First off, let me state how absolutely awesome it is that the FRC staff released this preliminary schedule. This is a huge step. But now to the negative...

8 qualifying matches per team is simply unacceptable. FIRST has made huge strides over the past few years to get teams as many qualification matches as possible. This is a huge step backwards. Hopefully these schedules are preliminary and they find a way to squeeze in at least one extra match. I know there are many factors at play when it comes to scheduling, so I recognize there's no easy solution. But I also know that 8 matches in divisions of 99 teams, at a Championship level, is just not enough.

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In case anyone wants them in an excel format here's a link to all the matches* in a Google doc, Please don't edit this document if you want to edit it make a copy, or download it to excel

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...Wc&usp=sharing

*Practice matches not included

Re: FRC Blogged - Share your FIRST Story, and *Preliminary* Championship Match Schedu
 

Last year the cycle times between matches was *fast*. They could fit in more matches.

This year it is slower due to counting discs and belaying robots.

Re: FRC Blogged - Share your FIRST Story, and *Preliminary* Championship Match Schedu
 

Now who is going to link this to Max or Avg OPR and get everyones ranking. Could even link in Auto OPR to get seeding right. Screw you work, not enough time to do this.