PNW Exhibition Match Concerns

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Originally Posted by BrendanB

If you want to talk about unfair advantages in FRC I'm surprised no one has brought up alliance selections at the Championship this year being moved to first thing on Saturday morning at 7:30am and qualification matches ending tentatively at 6pm on Friday. With Elimination rounds starting at 9am this gives the first seed in each division a huge advantage over the rest of the playing field because they have all of Friday night and first thing Saturday morning to plan with their first pick for strategy, third picks, and potential elimination cheesecakes and have more time to pull it all off since they don't play until the 4th quarterfinal matchup. Everyone else has 30 minutes at best before they need to be on the field or in the que line for their first match.

Sorry, I'm new here, I don't get why this is an issue. Are you saying that seeds 2-15 are not coming to the selection with their lists of first picks, third picks, etc? From what I've seen at regional events these teams are set after an hour, some show up with multiple sheets of paper. It's been years since I've been to an event where the captain goes Ummm "1511, oh wait they've been picked, Ummm 327 Oh, sorry they are the seed that just picked, wait ....."

If anything I feel bad for the scouting teams, they will be playing What If all night instead of getting some sleep. I expect everyone will show up with huge decision trees of choices.