[EricH]

Originally Posted by blackiceskier

im sure the FRC competion is run basicly the same way there are 4-5 qualifiers in a given day (unless its a weekend event where the first day is all qualifiers) and then there is teams that are let down when there are too many teams to be selected for elimanitons. those teams who are let down dont usualy stay around for the entire day untill awards.

I'm sure from this description that you haven't been to an FRC event. They're all 3-day events (or 2-day, in certain cases), with practice on day 1, and then a full day and a half of competition rounds, at least 7 to a team (and that's at the Championship, where divisions are close to twice the size of some regionals), and then the final half-day is eliminations. I've only seen a couple of cases where a team left before the awards at an FRC event, usually because they didn't do their flight planning correctly.