[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by Ether

Does anyone know: Is there an FRC-wide policy (applicable to all FRC competition events) regarding the process for filling the "extra slots" in the schedule? Or is the policy a local decision?

For example, at CAMA there were 83 Qual matches. 83*6=498 "slots" to assign teams to.

But there were 45 teams. 498 div 45 = 11 rem 3. So, 3 "extra slots".

Who decides which teams fill those 3 extra slots? For example, are they assigned automatically by the scheduling program? And what if one of those selected teams cannot, for some reason, participate in one of these "surrogate" matches - are they penalized in some way?

Or do the organizers at the venue ask for volunteers?

The way I've had it explained to me is that they are randomly filled by the FMS and teams always play their surrogate match as their 3rd match. Don't know what would happen if they couldn't participate.