[EricH]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

"Shortchanging"

Explain that to the team at a district event you gave the same number of unbag hours to but no practice matches?

In case your memory isn't working, I believe we did agree that the exact number of hours out of the bag was something to be worked out later--doesn't have to be exactly even, but has to be something in the "fair" range. BTW, Districts are inherently unfair to Regional teams. (Cue smart-arse half-troll discussion here.)


If the start of inspection is not moved to Wednesday night on the "start matches at noon on Thursday" schedule, the teams that will hurt the most are the very ones that the out-of-bag time is supposed to be helping. Out here, the inspectors start camping out in pits around 6 PM on Thursday if the inspector/team ratio is sufficiently high. By the start of quals, we can usually have all but maybe 1-2 teams passing--and they've generally got multiple inspectors and other teams helping out. If there's early inspection, that can probably be moved up a bit--but at what cost?