Getting the message out via viral video

[akoscielski3]

Originally Posted by Gray Adams

I don't know what the real reasons are, but I would think being ahead of schedule too much is a bad thing. If you invite someone to come see your match at 2:00 and they show up and missed it by 1hr because of scheduling, that's no fun for them. They just need better things to fill the gaps.

Not just that either. For the past couple years the Canadian regionals have almost always been ahead of schedule (Thanks Karthiks, FTA's, and Volunteers). It has been more of the problem that teams dont get to their match because they think its at 2:00 when the match was actually played at 1:45 and they missed it, and are DQ'd.

[Gray Adams]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

Not just that either. For the past couple years the Canadian regionals have almost always been ahead of schedule (Thanks Karthiks, FTA's, and Volunteers). It has been more of the problem that teams dont get to their match because they think its at 2:00 when the match was actually played at 1:45 and they missed it, and are DQ'd.

Right, that too. We missed our practice match at champs even though we showed up 15 minutes ahead of time. Although them keeping to schedule is nice, we learned not to trust that to happen.

[Alexa Stott]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

Not just that either. For the past couple years the Canadian regionals have almost always been ahead of schedule (Thanks Karthiks, FTA's, and Volunteers). It has been more of the problem that teams dont get to their match because they think its at 2:00 when the match was actually played at 1:45 and they missed it, and are DQ'd.

That's easy enough to fix by letting teams know via pit announcements/sending people around to each pit to let them know that matches are running x minutes early and to plan accordingly.

I hate all the down time when it's just because matches are being run efficiently.