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Re: Championship 2008 - Atlanta - Your Thoughts Please

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
Things about double field that made me remember GTR used to run double-field
When GTR ran double-fields, each of your matches would indicate which field it was to be on (Pontiac field or Chevy field). The fields would alternate Pontiac-Chevy-Pontiac-Chevy so that while one reset, the other ran a match.

As for how much you increase playing-time:
When GTR ran double-field in 2006, they managed 124 matches in 435* minutes of venue time, for a length of 3.5 minutes of venue time per match. This includes introductions and 2m15s of play time, so that's pretty impressive.

At the Lone Star Regional in 2006 (biggest regional that was the same week that year), they managed 81 qualifying matches in 485 minutes* of venue time, for a length of 6.0 minutes per match.
*All end times rounded to next 15 minutes.

Edit: Looking again at the scheduling, my times are based off of the explicit times that teams were expected to show at the field, not when the matches actually happened. This means that this calculation only shows how much FIRST expects double-fields to increase play, not how much they actually do. GTR may have actually gone long that year (I don't remember) and LSR may have been ahead of schedule, which would throw off these calculations.

So based on that, we can say that FIRST expects double-fielding to increase match capacity by ~70%. If we say that they actually increase it by 50%, then that is still resulting in a very-good 11-12 matches per team at championships compared to the 7-8 they've gotten in recent years. Or maybe it ends with the competition ending on time. Would still require additional refs though, especially if the fields are split between GWCC and the dome.

Last edited by Bongle : 21-04-2008 at 22:30.