Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunshine
Kevin, not sure why you reference your team performance? I nor anyone else mentioned it. Gotta ask. Are you totally against Regionals now? Or if they give you 1-2 more matches and judges you'll be happy?
|
I'm not sure why you are singling out Kevin when many other people agree with him.
Not speaking for Kevin or anyone else, but I don't think its about the extra match, but more about consistency.
The Virginia Regional and the Orlando regional both had 64 teams. Doing some basic number crunching, the average team number (and median) of Orlando was higher (and significantly at that) than the average/median team age of Virginia:
Code:
Orlando Virginia
Average Team #: 2962 (7 years old) Average Team #: 2361(8 years old)
Median Team #: 3087(7 years old) Median Team #: 1968(10 years old)
Orlando had 6 rookies, and Virginia had 4. If anything, one could argue Virginia had more experienced teams and should expect their regional to run smoother/faster because everyone there has been doing it longer. But instead, despite being the same size and older, Virginia had less matches.
Compared, the Wisconsin regional had four less teams, 90 matches (Orlando had 107), and had comparable average/median team numbers to Orlando (ave/med: 2790(7 years old)/2856(7 years old)), and only 3 rookies, so its hard to find reason as to why there are less matches.
Code:
Orlando Virginia Wisonsin
ave Team#: 2962 ave Team #: 2361 ave Team #: 2790
med team#: 3087.5 med team #: 1968 med team #: 2856.5
# of rookies: 6 # of rookies: 4 # of rookies: 3
64 teams 64 teams 60 teams
107 matches 86 matches 90 matches
EDIT: I originally included a list of all the teams in attendance at the regionals