Are 8 play regional reasonable?

[bjtheone]

Originally Posted by Tom Line

Welcome to the normal world before districts. Most teams worked their whole build season for a single Regional and 8 matches. Approximately 16 minutes of play time.

This is the biggest win for the district model. Up in the Frozen North (aka Canada) there are unfortunately not enough teams _yet_ to support the district model so we have regionals.

Given that, we have pretty much concluded that we need to (a) build two robots, and (b) attend 2 regionals in order to be able to test/iterate/improve the robot design and drive team. Which adds significantly to the costs of running a team. Attending one event, after all the work that is build season, seems like very little reward for all the work, but the second regional certainly adds a lot of cost.

Would love to be in a district model with weekend events, and robot access period instead of the craziness that the "practice" day at a regional can turn into.