Are 8 play regional reasonable?

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

I wonder if the following solution would be one the Minnesota RPC, Minnesota teams, and HQ could find tenable:

Make all regional events with a roster near or over 60 teams function like a district championship, but permit a 6 hour unbag window as well. Start qualification matches at 2 PM on Thursday and you find the hours you need to provide teams with a service similar to what smaller regionals give.

This is actually a great idea to get teams at large events more matches and with pit setups starting on Wednesday evening at regional events it is doable. Six hours on Thursday morning should be enough time to get teams inspected as long as A. they show up with less than two hours of work to do and B. there are enough inspectors on hand.

It doesn't work out to a perfect balance of time between teams in districts and teams at regionals in terms of access to your robots but even under the current system that doesn't exist. It would also help with the transition to future districts (or more regionals) because it would require the event to increase their inspection crew. Increasing just one section (or potentially doubling it) of volunteers is easier than needing several planning committees and several new key volunteers.

Its not a perfect solution but its a good option.