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Re: More then 7 matches?
I'm pretty sure that Bill meant to say that there would be seven qualifying matches for each team on Friday and Saturday.
With 6 minute intervals between 102 matches (which gives each team 7 matches and just three surrogates), we're looking at bit over 10 hours of playing time for the qualification round. The agenda shows almost 10-1/2 hours for FRC qualifying matches on Friday/Saturday combined. Even with this schedule, there's little slack for field issues, referee discussions, etc.
I've seen matches turn around in just over five minutes, but that was on Saturday when the teams and field reset crew were very familiar with the drill. I don't see FIRST expecting to fit in an eight-match per team qualifying round (requiring 116 matches to be played). Banking on less than 5-1/2 minute intervals between matches just doesn't seem prudent.
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