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Originally Posted by Bpk9p4
i would agree with more wooden fields. However my biggest complaint was that the practice fields were closed on Saturday. Lots of teams would have loved to get there robot out there to make sure everything was working fine and maybe change things up
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I fully understand why folks want the practice field open on Saturday and it does make for a boring Saturday for me, I offered to score keep on Einstein but they didn't take me up on it.
I can tell you why the practice fields were closed on Saturday. It took us 3 hours (until 9:30) Friday night to pack up the practice fields. That was ALL the FTAs plus some FIRST staff plus a couple of other folks working non-stop.
You may have noticed that as soon as playoffs ended Saturday on the subdivisions the FTAs began teardown on the six non-Einstein play fields. They didn't finish until 10:00 Saturday night. Moving the 3 hours of practice field teardown to Saturday means the FTAs would need to pack fields until at least 1:00 AM.
It's just not logistically possible to have the practice fields open on Saturday.
No, you can't bring in more help, because many of the fields are going to off-season events and it's important that they get packed with all components. As it is, there's a laundry list of stuff that FIRST is needing to ship to the Minnesota Championship because it wasn't found at the practice field. Adding more hands just makes it harder to ensure stuff goes with the right field.