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Originally Posted by MechEng83
Not having done a district event before this upcoming season, I thought that's how it ran, with practice matches on load-in/inspection night.
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They try to do practice on load in night but it depends if the field is setup. I know there were no practice matches at the Granite State and UNH districts but we had some at Northeastern near the end of the night. I heard other events had load in night practice but not sure which ones. Depending on when an event can get access to facilities, which for districts can be late in the afternoon on load in day, it can be close to impossible to get the field ready to run for load in practice.
The focus of load in night needs to be on the inspections. For early events where teams are going through the process for the first time of the year you'll be lucky if you get half of the teams inspected by the end of the night. At GSD and UNH a majority of the teams were inspected the following morning. Add in practice matches and the backlog of teams will increase.