[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Joe Johnson

Does anyone know if FIRST plans to have 76 teams per division as they did last year or if they plan to have just 75 (i.e. these 600 teams are the teams with possible drops/adds as they or is FIRST sitting on 8 more golden tickets they haven't yet put on the list just yet)?

Overclocked is still hoping against hope to get an invite and it feels less unseemly to hope for a newly opened slot than to hope one of the teams on the list has to drop out...

Dr. Joe J.

I ran numbers in this or another thread. A bird told me the target cycle time was 7.5 minutes. Assuming 75 teams, that's 10 matches per team and 22 minutes of buffer time in the schedule. One more team adds 2 more matches and knocks the buffer down to 7 minutes. Given how things have run everywhere this year, I think they'd aim for 75 teams and the extra buffer time.