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More on the extra day...
I threw out the idea (and it wasn't original to me. I'm sure I stole it from someone else) and didn't really think about all the logistics.

I had assumed that FIRST must have the site under their jurisdiction on Tuesday and Wednesday to set up the playing field, shop, pits. If they set up the pits first on Tuesday, they could be setting up the playing field on Wednesday, while we have access to the pits. I don't know the details about how FIRST works their magic, but this looked like a "no cost" solution.

I would recommend the 3 members at a time to keep the pits cleared. 5 members per team would be fine too. 20 members per team results in chaos, although it is the best chaos on the planet.

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I think these are good ideas, but might need a few changes. It would be nice to have an extra day, but that racks up the expenses for teams that have to stay in hotels. It also brings up the issue of missing
school which was mentioned.
My original thought would be that 3 (probably adult) members of the team would fly/drive out the day early and that the rest of the team would come a day later. This would make the additional team expenses minimal.

The bad part of this, of course, is that fewer people would get the experience of unpacking the robot, tweaking, and seeing it start to come to life.

This year, I think we had a minimum of 10 people (mostly pre-college students) working in our pits from 8am-8pm on each practice day.

On the other hand, teams would be more likely to be inspected and would have more time to get their robot running.

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I have a problem with this plan for personal reasons: with teams only having 1-3 members in the pit it causes problems for teams that had problems during the build season.
I actually think that teams who have problems in the build season (we were one in our rookie year in 2000) would have more "mental space" to get them resolved. With a less crowded (and noisy) pit and with the focus on getting unpacked and running (instead of also trying to make your practices) teams should be able to focus more on solving technical problems.

Since you will know in advance how much work you would have to do, it might be possible to petition the regional to allow extra personnel into the pits.

Above all, the objective for FIRST is to have all robots performing well in competition, while maintaining a balanced playing field for all teams.

Andrew
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