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Originally Posted by Cory
Instead of starting at noon on Thursday, why not run until 8 pm on Friday as well?
It would require longer hours for the volunteers, but I don't think there is a single team that would rather cut half of practice thursday vs staying later on Friday.
There might be other considerations like OT for venue staff. Maybe FIRST has looked into it and deemed it undo able. It would be nice if it was possible though.
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Friday until 8 is tough with "pick list" meetings generally occurring after the event. With the 6pm end time, it allows time for dinner and a pick meeting without making it a late night.
How about 3-7pm on Thursday? It's a nice half a day worth of matches. Most teams can make it through inspection by 3 (if they know they have to in order to play) and it still leaves an hour before pits close to tune things up before Friday. If practice matches started at 8:30, it would leaves 6 hours of practice matches. Using fill lines, if teams want the practice, the opportunity should be there. Plus it guarantees a match list on Thursday night which is an added bonus.
-EOB