Thread: FRC Blogged - Share your FIRST Story, and *Preliminary* Championship Match Schedules
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Re: FRC Blogged - Share your FIRST Story, and *Preliminary* Championship Match Schedu
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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod View Post
I get 7:09 (you may have played through the dinner break on Thursday), so that would mean 6:23 cycles in your scheme (and no breathing room for handling unanticipated problems).
I got 7 hours of play on Thursday, 2:20 on Friday morning, 5:15 on Friday afternoon, and 2:15 on Saturday morning. That's 16:50 total, meaning 1010 minutes. Dividing this by 134 matches gives 7.53 minute cycle times, which is approximately 7:32. Did I make a counting error?
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