What would you do to improve the FIRST experience?

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Originally Posted by Mr V

Not for this season, I halfheartedly complained to the FTAs at our first event this season that our schedule had us playing against a known powerhouse team, that did end up ranked #1, 3 times at a 40 team 12 match event. He told me that as of this season they are not allowed to run the match scheduling program a second time without calling HQ first.

I'm pretty sure I remember Danny saying this year that one of the few cases where a second run would be acceptable is a drastic mismatch in the generated schedule stats. So if all teams play against ~25 opponents, but a few play against only 15, for example. Of course, you'd still have to check with HQ, but that's one of the situations where they could allow it.

I don't think it would have applied to your particular case though, since the with/against numbers for your team (and all others) could still have been in an acceptable range, even with a couple repeated opponents.