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Originally Posted by FreedomForce
just in relitive terms, the amount of matches has decreased significantly in the past four years.
look at florida fro example
Year one 104 Matches
Year two 86 Matches
Year three 77 Matches
This year 68 Matches
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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
"Year 1" also was a 2v2 game, and would require more matches for each team to participate in the same amount. Matches haven't gone down per team in my experience.
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I think what he's hitting at is not that each team is getting fewer matches than before (although this is the case in some situations), but that each regional is having notably fewer matches than in the past. Sure, 2004 was 2v2, and therefore required significantly more matches to grant teams as much time on the field. But just like 2004, the rounds are only 2 minutes and 15 seconds long. If Florida was able to manage 104 matches of that length in 2004, why are they doing only 65% as many rounds this year? Surely setting up two additional robots per match dosen't make a match cycle take 50% longer.
Since our team's rookie year in 2004 we have seen a significant decline in the number of matches we play per regional. I don't have any hard numbers for each event, but our rookie year we got between 10 and 12 matches at both the Pacific NW Regional and the Sacremento Regional. This year, despite being 3v3 now over the 2v2 the first year, we only got 8 matches - largely due to the regionals growing. Portland has gone from roughly 36 teams in 2004 to 54 teams this year.
- Jeff