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Re: [FVC]: Longer competitions

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Originally Posted by ManicMechanic View Post
One other way that I could see to reduce wasted travel to the pits in Atlanta is to open one of the gates from the competition floor to the stands so that immediately following a match, teams could watch other teams (would greatly improve scouting), rather than running back and forth. This would some introduce some complications but I think they could be fairly easily addressed.
Although that would have been great, (we were trying to get a stair put in in atlanta for a while), an easier solution would be to simply have an extra team member in the stands.

I personally would have preferred to see a two day event at the nationals, however, for whatever reason (I don't know) it wasn't.

Regionals, however, I think work better as 1 day events, because as soon as an event becomes an overnight venture, cost spikes - securing the location overnight, reserving the venue another day, getting volunteers, etc all adds up. Plus the 1 day events run great - I think they are a lot more efficient than 2 day FRC events. I also think that FRC events could be done in one day, but there are too many teams and the reset time is longer than vex fields, thus 2 day events for FRC.
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