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Originally Posted by BrendanB

I think uniform unbag time would be good like Jim proposed. My only question would be does this come with a scale back on regionals to move to the district model of practice day starting at 5pm or would district teams get an extra 6 hours on top of the uniform 8? The unbag time exists so districts can operate on a shorter time frame of two full days plus one night for robot work/inspection that is scheduled from 5-10. It usually is more like 3-4 hours with teams setting up their pits, lines to unload, and other small issues.

Regionals can partially save their poor value proposition by starting qual matches Thursday after lunch. A majority of the personnel required to run those matches are already there, you will just be really hurting on spares at key positions like refereeing.

Whether or not SBD ever goes away, a move to give RPCs an option to "hybrid" their regional into a regional on a DCMP schedule with 6 hours of bag time should be allowed by FIRST.