Are 8 play regional reasonable?

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

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.

For reference, 4 teams at North Star (60 team event) didn't pass inspection until Friday Morning, and 10 teams at 10K (63 team event) didn't pass inspection until Friday morning. They all had serious issues that they worked hard to fix throughout the day on Thursday. These are the same teams that a 6 hour robot access period wouldn't help. If they're oblivious enough to have a 140" frame perimeter, I seriously doubt that they will have the capability to fix that frame perimeter in their 6 hour robot access period on their own.