[BB]: Regional Variations & Bagging It

[Rich Kressly]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

... And shrinking that time they have on Thursday is only going to make it more difficult for them to help the teams that really are struggling.

Yeah, I've been thinking about those scenarios as well. We were one of the fortunate veterans week 1 last year in DC. On Thurs the only work we had to do was camera calibration which one of our engineers was handling pretty well. Mind you we had a VERY simple robot, no fix-it-window add ons ... only a DS upgrade to do besides getting a camera dialed in. Even being in great shape otherwise, we spent all of Thursday...along with some other vets ... getting a few rookies past inspection ... two of which finally passed, but never ran one practice match. I'm trying to picture in my mind what that day would have looked like starting Q matches at noon.

I LOVE 10+ matches for all, let's hope we can get those struggling teams more functional prior to showing up at their first event.