[FTC]: World fest questions

[Abra Cadabra IV]

Originally Posted by 595294001

Hi everyone,

I have been crawling these forum, and I've ended up with three world-festival related questions:

1. Many competitions mention three team elimination round alliances, what is that about?

2. For those of you who went to the world festival last year, how many qualification matches were there?

3. Does anyone know how many teams will be attending this year, and would you be willing to hazard a guess as to how many matches one team will probably play, including quarter finals (if there are any), semis and finals?

Thanks a lot,

Theodore

1. Three-team eliminations are actually the standard for FTC final matches, just most tournaments this year haven't had enough participants to do them. The way it works is that each seeded team picks two partners for a total of 3 teams per alliance. However, finals matches are still 2v2 so one member of the alliance sits out every round. It makes for some interesting strategy, as two robots on an alliance may do great against one combination of opponents but horrible against another.

2. Last year, there were about 7 qualification matches, if I recall correctly.

3. In theory there will be 100 teams attending, split up into two divisions of 50 teams each. The amount of teams there actually are will depend on how many people register and attend. How many matches a team plays depends on whether or not they make it into the finals (of which slightly less than half the teams will be part of). Every team will be guaranteed their 7 or so qualification matches plus a couple practice matches (if they're doing those again this year). The two alliances that make it to the final-final round could play up to a possible total of 12 extra rounds (assuming that the quarters, semis, division finals, and championship matches all went to three matches). That's an extremely unlikely case though, odds are even the final teams will play significantly fewer matches than that. And there's no way to really guess how many matches a team will play. I'd say prepare for a lot of matches, and that way you won't be caught with dead batteries or broken parts no matter how far you get.

Good luck at Atlanta! See you there!