FRC Blogged-2014 FIRST Championship – Preliminary Changes to FRC Agenda

[Lil' Lavery]

FIRST continues their full-frontal assault on mentor's vacation days.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

FIRST continues their full-frontal assault on mentor's vacation days.

Yup. If I've got to be there at 3 PM on Wednesday, that's another day off for me that I'm not sure I can afford to take. I've come down to volunteer the past two years for inspection but I don't know if I can justify it unless my team qualifies this year.

I'm glad we're getting more matches, but this is going to be one exhausting Championship.

[magnets]

This is nice, but very stressful for teams. The ten matches will really be nice though. Only getting one practice match will be tough, especially when it's on Wednesday. Not all of our team is there on Wednesday, so it'll be tough.

[Damiaen_Florian]

Did they just say 10 matches? That's such a huge bump up from last year's 8, it could probably ensure that the top 8 is more of teams that deserve there and not gotten by an easy schedule. All these changes seem to be for the better, it amazes me how even though FIRST keeps on growing they still continue to offer more playing time to the teams.

[MikeE]

Originally Posted by Damiaen_Florian

Did they just say 10 matches? That's such a huge bump up from last year's 8, it could probably ensure that the top 8 is more of teams that deserve there and not gotten by an easy schedule.

I anticipate some schedule variance analysis to appear in this thread fairly soon.

[magnets]

Originally Posted by Damiaen_Florian

Did they just say 10 matches? That's such a huge bump up from last year's 8, it could probably ensure that the top 8 is more of teams that deserve there and not gotten by an easy schedule. All these changes seem to be for the better, it amazes me how even though FIRST keeps on growing they still continue to offer more playing time to the teams.

We had 10 in 2011 (or 2010, I forget) and had 7 in 09, and 7 years past. This is the highest number we've had in a long time.