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Re: Suggestions & More Math
Posted by Raul, Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling HS and Motorola.
Posted on 3/15/99 4:18 PM MST In Reply to: Re: Suggestions & More Math posted by Daniel on 3/15/99 7:44 AM MST: I understand your point. I just thought that more matches would be more valuable than more practice. Some other options: 1) shorten the practice matches from 10 minutes to 5 minutes or less. After all I've observed many teams that have a problem wind up spending a large amount of the time waiting for the match to end so they can fix what they just saw went wrong. 2) those who are known to have gone to regionals get less practice matches. No regional = 3 matches; 1 regional = 2 matches; 2 regionals = 1 match; 3 or more regional = 0 matches (if you go to the many regionals you probably prefer to just get on with the qualification rounds) 3) have a separate extra field/s that can be used for practice that is not officiated or maintained by FIRST staff. It could be off to the side and teams could get on a waiting list if the want extra practice time to debug problems. Raul : I agree for the most part, but the thought of taking only 2 practice matches seems a bit iffy. I'm not sure what the exact number is, but a good amount of teams don't go to regionals. The practice day is a VERY critical part of the competition for these teams. My team has always improved drastically during the practice rounds and I'd hate to see a team held back because they've never had a chance to run their 'bot in that kind of environment. You've got to have noticed that the nationals are always quite different than driving your 'bot around some sterile shop. I know what it's like; before this year my team has never had a regional and we go to the nationals and are railroaded (at the beginning) by teams that seem to have had TONS of practice. Because they had! It makes a difference... : I think the only good option is to up the number of arenas. Too bad that costs money -- but hey, doesn't everything nowadays? : -Daniel : GRT Student Co-Captain |
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