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Originally Posted by ablatner
And according to a recent post on Bill's blog, there could potentially be 400 FRC teams this year, meaning 100 on each field. It seems like it would be overwhelming and really stretch event time contraints.
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They still plan to get every team 9+ matches in their division. Most of the regionals I've heard of have been able to pull off 6-7 minute match turnarounds(start of match 1 to start of match 2), with a couple being closer to 5 minute turnaround. This should make it possible to have 100 teams on each division.
100(teams/division) * 9(matches/team) / 6(teams/match) = 150(matches/division) * 6(minutes/match) / 60(minutes/hour) = 15 hours/division
Looking at the posted schedule, we have:
5 hours Thursday(1pm-6pm)
7.5 hours Friday(9:30am-12pm, 1pm-6pm)
2.25 hours Saturday(8:15am-10:30am)
This totals 14.75 hours.
Yes, it might be a little stretch, but this game allows it. Considering every team competing has already been at 1 event so far, I suspect they could fairly easy pull off at least 6 minute matches, sans some catastrophic failure.
TL;DR - it's possible, for this year. I can't say anything about next year though.