competition schedules?

[Ken Leung]

Originally Posted by mightywombat

Just for fun...
Could someone speculate as to how many matches a team might go through on a given day?

Just for fun ;-).

Say there are 36 teams at your event. On average, it should take about 5-6 mins for a match to finish, reset, and be ready for the next one. Lets say 6 mins per match cycle. Now, it takes 4 teams to play one match, that means in order for every team to play 1 match per team, it takes 36/4 = 9 matches. 9 matches with 6 mins match cycle means it takes 54 mins in order for every team to play 1 match.

Now, Friday the matches probably goes from 9:15am - 12:00noon, and 12:30pm - 5:00pm. Then on Saturday from 9:15am to 12:00noon. Thats about 10 hours. Given it takes about an hour (54mins) for every team to play 1 match, 10 hours should give about 10 matches per team.

But that's because we only have 36 teams, and each match takes 6 mins. I remembered at bigger regionals, there could be as little as 7 matches per team. It all depends on how long it take to run matches.

Hey, you said just for fun ;-).

[Cory]

at SVR, which usually has around 50 teams or so, there have been 7-9 rounds the past few years.

At Sacramento last year, there were only 27 teams, and we had an astonishing 14 qualifying matches (That's almost 2 regionals worth!) and something ridiculous like 6 or 7 practice matches. The only bad thing was you would almost literally finish a match, then get back into the que for your next one.

Cory

[Kevin Sevcik]

In answer to the original question:

Practice round schedules will be waiting for you thursday morning at your pit or something. Qualifying round schedules won't be available until Friday morning.

This is because the rounds aren't even generated until Thursday night when most teams have arrived, checked in, and been inspected. This reduces the chance of having complete no-show teams in rounds, since by then officials will know if all the teams will be competing.