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[Chris Hibner]

I think the Final 4 during the awards show would be great. The anticipation would be tremendous as everyone speculates who is going to win.

Another reason why the Final 4 would be great during the awards show: BATTERIES!!!

I don't know about other teams, but batteries are a real issue for our team this year. We can just barely get two matches in on one battery, but that is stretching it. Just to be safe, we only try to go one match on a battery. I've read some other posts here that other robots have similar battery life issues this year.

The teams competing in the championship matches will have to play in 5 elimination rounds. For our robot (and other robots with high current draw), that would take up to 10 batteries. It would be nice to have the two hour break just so all of the competitors are guaranteed fresh batteries. I would hate to have the finals be decided by a low battery.