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Unread 06-11-2016, 17:32
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Re: How do you grow your off-season competition?

A HUGE THANKS for all your ideas and feedback! For 2016, R2OC registration for 32 teams filled in 2 weeks by mid-May. Additional teams were put on a Wait List. We ended up pulling 4 teams from the Wait List, and having an attending team bring their practice bot to fill in a spot created by a team dropping out 5 days before the event. Teams had 6 qual matches before alliance selection.We have made a practice of all teams being included in the elims, 4 bot/alliance. In order to avoid trying to reach Wait listed teams in the summer, we are thinking of opening up the registration to 40 teams, and playing with those who show up. But, IF 40 teams show up we need to have a plan! We have surveyed the attending teams and keeping it a one day event is highly preferred. We do have load in, practice matches, and social on Friday night, for those able to travel Friday night. Our goal isn't to have 40 teams compete, it is to have a complete roster of 32.
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