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Suggestion for 2007 Championships
I would like to see more teams participate in the Divisional Elimination rounds and on Einstein. Here's how I think that it could work:
It starts with allowing teams to arrive at the Championship event ready to compete instead of in desperate need of repair. So, after the final regional, teams would be able to ship their robots home for repairs and modifications until a second ship date prior to the Championships. At the Championships, teams could begin the inspection process on Wednesday evening, with completion on Thursday morning. Qualification matches would begin on Thursday afternoon and finish on Friday. The selection process would begin on Saturday morning and be expanded to 16 teams per division. Both Divisional Finalists would move on to Einstein and compete through two brackets (winners and losers) with the two bracket winners competing for the Championship. |
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Good idea but it will never happen due to these reason:
1. Alot of teams don't uncrate their robot on Wed. Alot of teams uncrate on Thurs. 2. Thursday is a pratice day and every team needs to practice for the competition. Also some teams change items on their robot around or test new items out. 3. Also take into consideration that FRC is not the only competition that is at the Championship Event. You got FLL and FVC. |
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Well I'd like to see them add two more playing fields - With six fields more mathces - downside quicker turnarounds.
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Then you would also have to have enough volunteer to work those two additional fields. There are many key positions that require certain key people and it's already strained finding enough quality volunteers as it is... |
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With six fields you would have a hard time doing the eliminations as they are now.
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Perhaps FIRST might consider offering one or more off- or mid-season orientation sessions for people interested in filling these vital positions so as to increase the number of qualified candidates available to their volunteer coordinators. I'm curious how many others would be interested in volunteering as a score keeper or referee or event assistant, for example, but don't bother because of the perception that they're not among the existing pool of preferred candidates and that FIRST doesn't want to risk derailing an event because of an inexperienced volunteer. |
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The constraint limiting expansion of the Championship from four active fields to six is not the availability of the volunteer staff. It is based on the frequency allocations utilized by the radio systems, and the interstitial spacing required to ensure that there is no cross-talk or signal degradation between the fields when they are all active simultaneously. This may change in the future if a new radio system is implemented, but for the time being there is a technical limit that will keep us to four active fields.
-dave |
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My main suggestion is the same one I have for the season overall: keep all prices as low as possible, the economy's flat, and money's tough to come by But yay for earlier Championships! |
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</me wads up and throws out really good idea for 2007 game> -dave |
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What's this? Dave saying radio links keep us to 4 fields, and JVN says that next year we get an updated radio? hhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmm... interesting. :D John also said they tested it (albeit an early version) at IRI last year, any IRI field people remember more than 40 channels? |
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Last year after competition on Friday the host teams 234, 45, and 393 were asked to try the new radio system out. We changed the radio on the robot and then 5 or 6 mock matches before packing up for the night. I am not sure what data they were looking at.
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