2017 Team Update 4

[rspurlin]

Originally Posted by Peyton Yeung

I think what people want is to select positions for playoff matches only. This shouldn't affect the number of matches each team gets.

For elims you are correct, but it might require extra time to run them. There are a lot of ramifications to running behind schedule. Some of the comments above seemed to imply that they wanted to select stations for any match. Maybe I misunderstood.

Last year's FMS (I haven't seen this year's yet) did not have the ability to do individual edits to the schedule, so it would be up to the scorekeeper to override the schedule prior to each match. I know it looks like we're just sitting on our butts behind the scoring table, but we're really busy during match play and busier that that during most breaks (especially prior to alliance selection). We're trying really hard to make sure you get on the field on schedule and that every match is run as fairly as possible. There are also impacts to queueing to consider.