[Vikesrock]

Jeff,

I was also very concerned with the implications of this potential move to 10 matches for the MN Regionals and the difficulty of implementing many or all of the suggestions here.

The idea of a mandatory pre-ship inspection seems like it would be extremely difficult to implement here. As you mentioned some of the out-state teams that cannot attend a pre-ship event are the very same teams that do not have mentors that would be qualified to perform an inspection.

Attempting to get all teams inspected by 2pm, 3pm, or even 5pm on Thursday will likely be extremely difficult without some type of major effort to address the large number of younger teams who will show up with robots in need of significant work.

10,000 Lakes may have completed 9 matches per team, but across the street Northstar only scheduled 7 (although if I remember right we did end significantly ahead of schedule on Friday). Also with the scheduling of the Midwest area regionals and the continued increase of MN teams I would not be surprised if both MN events reached 60 teams.