It’s with nice pleasure that I’m able to share this information with our neighborhood. We’re excited to announce that we are going to be implementing the Double Elimination Playoff Mannequin in any respect official FIRST® Robotics Competitors Occasions for the 2023 season. This contains the division playoffs and the Einstein event at FIRST® Championship. As with many issues we attempt in FIRST Robotics Competitors, it is a pilot. We will likely be soliciting suggestions from groups, volunteers, and Program Supply Companions after occasions to know how this went and what (if any) adjustments must be made. Please assist us by sharing your suggestions within the surveys which are despatched from FIRST.
I wish to take a second to thank all of the volunteers who helped us with this mission. For many who might not know, we shaped a working group to assist decide an answer to the challenges timeouts launched at occasions and opened this up to take a look at the whole playoff mannequin. Just a few months in the past, we introduced the result of that working group however famous it was depending on having the ability to full the work to implement this variation previous to the beginning of the 2023 occasions. We once more turned to our neighborhood and have been working carefully with this volunteer group the previous couple of months.
Since we shared preliminary details about the mannequin, we’ve made a number of adjustments and updates to share with the neighborhood now. We swapped matches 3 & 4 and 11 & 12 based mostly on suggestions from the neighborhood to enhance the time obtainable to all groups. Moreover, the preliminary schedule included breaks however didn’t specify what content material can be proven throughout them. We have now created a plan for numerous content material to fill the time, together with presenting a lot of the awards throughout a few of the breaks at lots of our occasions. The 2023 FIRST Robotics Competitors recreation handbook may have the entire event ruleset together with up to date graphics.
Thanks once more to everybody who helped present suggestions and an enormous thanks to our volunteers for serving to us make this a actuality!