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Originally Posted by rtfgnow
I think the issue last year was they sent out more invites for wait list teams than they had spots expecting some teams to decline and they were wrong. It would be like if they sent out 20-25 invites tomorrow to try to fill the 17 available spots.
This is done because not all teams can scrounge together $5,000 in two days. I do not believe they intended to have more than 600 teams in attendance.
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If you look at the schedule, there's 16 hours of quals scheduled. I'm told the target cycle time is 7.5 minutes. That makes 128 matches, for 10.24 matches per team for 75 teams, or 10.1 matches per team for 76 teams. 75 teams would play 125 matches, 76 teams would play 127 matches with a few surrogates.
So they theoretically have room for 8 more teams, if they want to cut 21 minutes of slack time down to just 7.
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17-04-2016, 15:43
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