Where/when is qualification match count data available?

[Doug Frisk]

Originally Posted by T8PineappleSam

Hello CD,

I was wondering where I would find the number of qualification matches that will be played by each team at 2017 events. Is this value to be found somewhere or will we need to wait until the event itself when match schedules come out?

Ohh, a question made for me!

It depends on the event schedule, the cycle time and number of teams.

Assuming a 7 minute cycle you can have a maximum of

8 matches per team if there are 62 - 69 teams
9 matches if there are 56 - 61 teams
10 matches 51 - 55 teams
11 matches 47 - 50 teams

Practically though, if the team count is on the high end of those ranges there isn't a lot of slack to play with in the schedule and most FTAs will opt for one less match per team rather than an almost guaranteed late event.

The sequence on a match is prestart and on field setup and connect to FMS, MC's announce teams, match play, ref validation, field reset and remove robots.

Cycle time is a combination of all of those things, some years field reset or the refs making their decision takes more or less time. This year, field reset is going to be longer than typical, but the ref time should be less.