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Re: What would you do to improve the FIRST experience?

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Not for this season, I halfheartedly complained to the FTAs at our first event this season that our schedule had us playing against a known powerhouse team, ...
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I'm pretty sure I remember Danny saying this year that one of the few cases where a second run would be acceptable is a drastic mismatch in the generated schedule stats. ...
And, just to reiterate an advantage of pre-computed match schedules (described here). Any/all "unfairness" could be scrubbed out of them ahead of time, with the result guaranteed to satisfy FIRST's fairness criteria, whatever they might be.
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