Number of Matches at the Championship

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Stud Man Dan

More matches would be all fine and dandy but remember if your team is not ready to perform that may say just as much as the ranking system.

If you lose one game in the NCAA tournament your out of national championshipo contention. It also very similar with the BCS in college football.

In FIRST at the Championships marketing, and scouting is all that evens the playing field. If not for these 2 then a lot of the best teams in the nation could potentially never get their chance.

If you expect it to be a championship its going to be tough, and adding more games may really not be the solution.

Maybe Im looking at this differently, but to me the point of adding more matches isn't to make it more fair for everyone else. It's to make sure the top 8 are as close to the best 8 robots in the division as possible.

For example, look at Archimedies in 2005. That division was absolutely loaded. Yet a bunch of powerhouse teams ended up seeded super low, and a bunch of weaker teams ended up seeding high, because there aren't enough matches to eliminate luck influencing the standings.

I think we should add more matches not to help teams that have bad luck and lose a match or two, but to push the ones that performed extremely well to the top, rather than have teams that had good partners and didnt play anyone tough end up above teams that dominated their competition, but got pitted against each other and lost a match.

[Nawaid Ladak]

a GTR Field setup would work fine, and maybe extending the times on friday would work...

for example

opening ceremonies start at 8am, events begin at 9am, and SHOULD end at about 5.

maybe extend that to 7 or 8pm, with six minute periods. that means 20-30 more matches.

start it back up at 0 on Saturday, as usual

alliance parings are at 12pm instead of 11:45am

have 12 teams in the eliminations.

and the event would end at 8, perfect time slot on ESPN or ESPN2 in mid april on a Saturday afternoon. what else could be on..... world series of poker?????

lol, but yea, this is probably the best idea.

maybe extend the radio channel availability list or natioals