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Originally posted by dk5sm5luigi
I don't know if this is how they are going to do it in Canada but it would make sense. It would allow twice the number of matches to be played in the same amount of time.
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Each match in the FIRST competition have a 5 mins cycle. Due to last year's autonomous mode, which will probably happen again, the match length is about 2 mins 18 seconds. The rest of the 5 mins is used for clearing the field and setting up the robots.
So, I suppose they can alternate the matches in each cycle, so you start match 1 in cycle 1 for the first 2 mins 18 seconds while match 2 in cycle 1 is being prepared, then as soon as match 1 cycle 1 ends you start match 2 cycle 1, and you let the first field get cleared off and setup for match 1 cycle 2.
That will make sure matches doesn't happen at the same time for the audiences. I am interested in finding out how they are going to make the scoring software works for 2 fields. Maybe they will program one field to do odd number matches and the other field do even number matches.
I hope to see more 2 fields regionals in the coming year. That's one way to enlarge capacity of regionals while keeping the cost low. I like it :-).