[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by purplecatnip

okay first of all, I would like to say this is my first time really looking at the site and it just took my nearly half an hour just to find how to start a thread so I feel slightly dumb already
so anyway here's my question:
if your alliance loses your very first round have you already lost, and will that be the only round you compete in? this will be the first FRC competetion we're attending so I'm kinda confused on how the elemination works.....

First off: Welcome to Chief Delphi and FIRST.

Don't feel dumb about anything here, we were all new here once and this is a place of great information ... all you have to do is ask.

As far as how many matches you'll get, the above posts are correct.
You'll have 2-4 practice matches (these don't count).
You'll get 7-9 seeding matches (These DO count).
If you get into the elimination matches,you'll have up to 9 of those.

Don't forget to explain to other teams what your robot can do, sometimes even if you are not placed well (during the seeding matches) your robot may be exactly what another team is looking for to compliment their robot.