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Originally Posted by RogerR
so why not have it on the first day during practice rounds? take 15 or so teams from each division and put them into a temporary "people's choice" division for practice day. this division would compete on einstein field (assuming its not gone or in use on practice day next year) for practice day, and then return normal divisions for the last two days for qualifacation and final rounds.
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One concern would be is that Practice day is for teams to get their bugs out (if they still have them after regionals) and to make fixes from previous events. So, many teams may not really be ready to do something like this on Practice day... especially if their goal is to make changes or improvements all day Thursday so they run properly for the "real" matches. Some teams might be hesitant to participate in "extra" matches, so as to avoid unnecessary damage and save themselves for the meat of the competition. I suppose teams could bow out from playing if they were chosen though.
Other concern would be that since this is a People's Choice, the people would need some time to see who's who. If I don't know 70% of the teams robots at Nationals, my choice would be pretty biased to teams I'm very familiar with.
As far as time, Thursday would be ideal, but as far as other considerations, maybe not. Not sure when would be an all around ideal time for this at Nationals. Good idea, just a matter of when and how.