FRC Blogged - Share your FIRST Story, and *Preliminary* Championship Match Schedules

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Karthik

First off, let me state how absolutely awesome it is that the FRC staff released this preliminary schedule. This is a huge step. But now to the negative...

8 qualifying matches per team is simply unacceptable. FIRST has made huge strides over the past few years to get teams as many qualification matches as possible. This is a huge step backwards. Hopefully these schedules are preliminary and they find a way to squeeze in at least one extra match. I know there are many factors at play when it comes to scheduling, so I recognize there's no easy solution. But I also know that 8 matches in divisions of 99 teams, at a Championship level, is just not enough.

Qualification matches are schedule to end at 10:30. Could they squeeze in one more set and run up to noon?