[Chris Fultz]

Originally Posted by Paul Copioli

As far as a compressed practice day, etc. I hope they make it work like the districts worked. We had 8 hours starting the Sunday of the week of our next district to take our robot out of the bag and practice / work on the robot. The rules were a minimum unbagging of 30 minutes each session and a maximum of 8 hours. Practice day (Thursday) load in started at 6pm and was until 9pm. The main field was open for practice at this time. The better part of Friday morning was open practice and opening ceremonies was around 10:30am. Matches ran until 7pm and there were no Friday Awards. Teams got about 1/2 as much time to fix their robots as a regular regional, but also had the 8 hours during the week to make up for it.

I hope it works that way for these compressed regionals.

Paul

But not all compressed regionals will be bag & tag. For example, DC had enough teams in 2009 that matches would need to start on Thursday afternoon to get in 10 qualifiers. Teams will not have access to their robots until Thursday morning when they arrive at the venue.