Inter-District Play in 2017

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Originally Posted by IKE

I do not believe there will be a lot of open spots in Michigan unless we add another another event (a couple were added a couple weeks ago). That being said, we are now a large enough organization that we might have some pre-season fallout which could open up a few spots.

Relevant to this thread, the standard 40 team district format with 12 matches requires 80 matches for qualifying (every match counts). Each team added or removed increases or decreases the schedule by 2 matches effectively. With an early season cycle time of likely 7-ish minutes, adding a team basically adds about 15 minutes more towards the qualifying schedule. Later in the season, adding 1 is a bit less impactful as the cycle time tends to get faster with practice and experienced robots.

My fuzzy memory and math skills tell me there will be about 8 extra slots.

456* teams x 2 events = 912 slots needed
23 events x 40 teams = 920 slots

Fuzzy math skills tell me 920 - 912 = 8 extra slots



*Fuzzy memory tells me that was the number Gail gave