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Originally Posted by Tetraman
At events, the Field Crew is instructed to use new and untouched game pieces whenever possible during the finals matches. This is to help simulate a 'perfect game state' and limit any variance between alliances for the most critical matches. While highly used game pieces won't affect game in a drastic way, its good peace of mind to the players that they are using fresh game pieces that will optimize their designed systems.
In the same way, Einstein Field is unused so teams have a fresh carpet, clean plexiglass, and unbroken field tape that perfectly simulates the field as described in the game manual. It makes sense for the championship matches to be played on the most optimized field as possible so all that determines the outcome is the robots and their teams.
Can this tradition be dispensed with? Possibly, but that's a question for those who are not me to answer.
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Also not for nothing, it's also part of the honor of getting to this point, getting to say you played on a brand new pristine field. These are the most watched matches of the season, so not only do you want the field being pristine for playing purposes, you want it to look good in terms of showmanship. (Some year's a new field vs. old field was pretty obvious, even from a distance).
Edit: Andrew beat me to it.
Edit 2: The other thing to note is that the field used for Einstein's main reason for existing is it serves as the back-up field for the rest of the year. It's on stand-by for the rare case something happens to one of the fields (i.e. a truck get's into an accident during transit) so this way the events still can continue on. FIRST won't be getting rid of that any time soon, so if we have to have a field that more then likely won't be used all season, I see no reason to not use it for Einstein.