Are 8 play regional reasonable?

[CJ_Elliott]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

can you really not grasp that other people can value other things more? In just the past month, I have seen people say they prefer "more polished" regional events over "amateurish" district competitions, or the high-quality seating of a professional sports arena over the non-air-conditioned bleachers of a high school gymnasium, or the opportunity to play with 60 teams from around the country over 32 of the same teams they already saw this year.

In this thread alone there are people who express a desire for more time between matches, which naturally means fewer matches in total. And there, now you have a metric that benefits from having only 8 matches.

I understand that people like the regionals. If you are in the stands as a spectator and don't really get the whole robotics thing. Then yes. "more polished", air conditioned, and high quality seating is what you would probably what you want. But from a student. I will not speak for anyone but myself, but when I go to a competition, even like 10K this year where our team grenaded 3 gearboxes, broke our climber, broke our active intake, and our shooter loosened, I do not give a crap as to how comfortable the seats in the stands are. I don't care if the pits have AC. I don't care if I'm in a gym or a sports arena. If chairs really inspired me that much I would be in woodcrafting club and not robotics. I care if our robot works or not. Even if it works for 1 match but it works really well. I want to have our robot work.