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Re: Who would like to see longer matches?

The big thing that's different in FIRST compared to something like the NFL is that FIRST has a LOT more teams. There are many teams who can't afford to go to more then one regional so they need to cram an entire season worth of games in to a few days, unlike say football where they have an entire season for an entire season's worth of games.

I think that the only way you could do longer matches (assuming the technical problems can be overcome) is by either making regionals longer to accommodate the increases in time or making more of them so that there's less teams at each one.

The downside I see with longer matches from a spetators point of view is that scoring could be slower. I know the game would be different but take this years game, in the higher level matches eventually the racks would be full and the game would start to get drab.

I think that for the purpose of getting more spectators longer matches wouldn't be the best place to start, I'd look at number of game pieces and stuff like that first.
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