Re: [FRC Blog] Frank Answers Fridays: June 7, 2013
 

As someone who was on the BattleCry planning committee, I can tell you that the facility can hold 64 teams.

At the regional, we had 42 teams: we ensured everyone got a 10x10 or greater pit, and we did not use the additional pit space in the loading dock area.

At BattleCry, we had 54 teams, using a modified pit layout and the loading dock pits, while ensuring teams had a good amount of room to work in. We could have gone to 66 (22 elimination alliances of 3), but wanted to test things out with a smaller number, both for us and for the teams. We don't like making our teams guinea pigs, so we are trying to ease the event up in size.

So let it be said by someone involved with events at WPI that the facility was designed to hold 64 teams, and can hold 64 teams.