2011 Greater Toronto Regional

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by EricH

Jonathan, Bill's Blog stated that teams could sign up for any regional, but FRC reserved the right to equalize the double regionals such that they weren't all rookies, or so that the regionals had about the same number of teams. (From http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2010...efore-you.html )

As regards having a "championship" match at double regionals, Alex is correct. By the time awards are over, teams just want to get out of there. The only people that want to get out of there more than the teams are the volunteers, and the FTA and teardown crew don't leave until the truck is being loaded, or in the FTA's case, has left fully loaded. If half the crew has to stay an extra half-hour or so due to teams playing more, I don't think the road cases, and therefore the truck, will get loaded as fast.

As it is, teams wanting pictures on the official field have to do it quickly, because the field is coming down around them as they do it.

Build it into the regional agenda. It's already been done once before, to an extreme.

In 2004, at the first Canadian Super Regional, there were 16 full alliances and a complete set of eighth finals. Is that not the exact number of alliances and match series required to determine the "Uber Champion" between GTR East and West?

From a worst-case time perspective, it's been done before. At the same venue. And I wasn't worried about packing up and leaving at the end in '04 - I was busy watching Finals Match 1-3.