View Single Post
  #35   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 07-11-2007, 20:17
Kevin Sevcik's Avatar
Kevin Sevcik Kevin Sevcik is offline
(Insert witty comment here)
FRC #0057 (The Leopards)
Team Role: Mentor
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Rookie Year: 1998
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 3,731
Kevin Sevcik has a reputation beyond reputeKevin Sevcik has a reputation beyond reputeKevin Sevcik has a reputation beyond reputeKevin Sevcik has a reputation beyond reputeKevin Sevcik has a reputation beyond reputeKevin Sevcik has a reputation beyond reputeKevin Sevcik has a reputation beyond reputeKevin Sevcik has a reputation beyond reputeKevin Sevcik has a reputation beyond reputeKevin Sevcik has a reputation beyond reputeKevin Sevcik has a reputation beyond repute
Send a message via AIM to Kevin Sevcik Send a message via Yahoo to Kevin Sevcik
Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/Practice Match Poll

Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry Bonzack View Post
I see the reasoning behind this idea, Say teams are scheduled for 7 matches, but a max of 8 for the entire day is allowed. The team has their robot ready to go at the beginning of the day can fill early spots, a couple of their own, and theoretically be finished for the day by lunch time. After lunch, their scheduled matches become byes and teams that were not ready to go at the beginning of they day fill in the match from the filler line. This gives a better chance every team gets a near equal amount of practice without one team getting 10 matches, while another team only could make it to their last 2 scheduled matches.

However. I am in the belief that a team that has their robot best ready to go in the beginning of the morning made the best use of their six weeks. This time management skill should be rewarded by FIRST by receiving extra practice matches.
My suggestion was simply to even things out slightly. I've seen more than a few posters in this thread suggesting that option 3 will let teams that are ready get extra practice in the mornings, and the morning teams will get to make up for lost time in the afternoon, but that's simply not going to be the case, since there's going to be a flood of teams in the Fill Line in the afternoon. I understand the sentiment for rewarding teams that "made the most of their six weeks", but I don't entirely agree with it. Especially because some of those teams will inevitably be teams with little or no offense capabilities who are finished and ready to practice simply because there's not much to their robot but defense. The sad thing is that any team that's missing tons of matches in the morning will really, really need extra matches in the afternoon, but they're just not going to be there. The only real way for this to work out in favor of teams missing matches in the morning is if the other teams either voluntarily give up matches in the afternoon or if they're forced to do so.
__________________
The difficult we do today; the impossible we do tomorrow. Miracles by appointment only.

Lone Star Regional Troubleshooter
Reply With Quote