[karomata]

Regardless, I still stand my ground on the philosophy that the meaning of this clue is that matches will be 3 minutes long. It would be a very subtle hint about the game that does not give away so much that teams can begin thinking about strategies or designs. And seeing that this year could possibly be a year where FIRST wanted to have strategies have a large impact on match outcomes, if matches were 3 minutes, it would allow time for more complex and developed strategies. We would all also have less matches, making it important to utilize any strategies teams can because it is important that they try to win as many of their matches that they can because there are so few. All that is needed is a coopertition system or a new kind of qualification scoring system that makes it so that when you lose a match, you have a chance of coming back from that loss.