In regards to all the complaints about only having 8 seeding matches. Yes it was less than ideal but the fact of the matter is that FIRST and Frank Merrick carefully considered the average cycle times across all of the regional events before making this hard choice. Fact is that you can speculate how things are going to go before the season starts but until the season actually starts you just don't know how things will play out. Reset times are one of those things and they did what they had to do to fit the available schedule. I know from working at regional events that it is a hard choice to make and everyone I know tries their hardest to maximize the number of matches that teams play.
Thanks to Frank Merrick, and his regular reading of this forum, headquarters is aware of the disappointment and I trust that, as mentioned in
this thread ,they will do their best to improve the number of matches at CMP next year.