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Re: How do you grow your off-season competition?
The playoff aspect of it is a good point. Since it's inception TRI has had 4 team alliances and has used old FRC/VEX rules that require your 4th robot to play in each elemination series at least once. This helps get more teams eliminations experience and more matches.
I'm really confused how some people are saying a 40 team event only gets ~3 qualifying rounds per team. That math just doesn't make sense to me. If we ran really slowly like 8 min cycle times I'm sure we could fit in 6 matches per team at a minimum. In total we ran 45 qual matches at TRI in 2016 with 38 teams, that is 7 per team. We would only need to run a couple more matches if we had 40 teams.
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