[FTC]: Scoring Program Can't Schedule More Than 5 Matches per Team

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by maths222

Please don't do that for an official competition. FIRST would not be happy to find out about that.

FIRST is already not happy with a number of regional partners for all sorts of deviations from the party line that benefit local teams. In my opinion they need to take a step back from forcing a homogenous FTC on everyone and build back in some regional options (like feedback, or number of matches).

[maths222]

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

FIRST is already not happy with a number of regional partners for all sorts of deviations from the party line that benefit local teams. In my opinion they need to take a step back from forcing a homogenous FTC on everyone and build back in some regional options (like feedback, or number of matches).

I don't disagree, but I think that as long as we operate under the FIRST program, we should be doing things as directed by FIRST (and adapting within the rules/encouraging FIRST to change the rules rather than explicitly breaking them.)

[maths222]

I have heard back from FIRST regarding the match generation limit:

With the introduction of new technology this season, and our strong desire to have consistency across events, we have set a hard match limit for Official Events. We may revisit this later in the season, when we have a better understanding of the turn times for our matches, and when our teams have a better grasp on the new communications model, but for now, we would like our official events to adhere to this limit

[Nathan Pell]

The FTC Affiliate partner in Florida gave permission to all leagues to run their events as a super regional so we would not be stuck with the 5 match limit. It seems as if this was a last minute decision by first, as the Event Host manual still has an equation for calculating play time, etc. So there have been nearly 165 teams in Florida who played more than 5 matches. Maybe FIRST will 'revisit' this and remove the silly restriction.