[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

Regionals can partially save their poor value proposition by starting qual matches Thursday after lunch. A majority of the personnel required to run those matches are already there, you will just be really hurting on spares at key positions like refereeing.

Whether or not SBD ever goes away, a move to give RPCs an option to "hybrid" their regional into a regional on a DCMP schedule with 6 hours of bag time should be allowed by FIRST.

I've never seen one of my 60-team regionals get more than half of the robots passed inspection by lunch on Thursday. I would worry a lot about that trying to make this switch...