Guys
Because of the
huge number of entries plus the minisumo, superants and fleas, there will not be time to run a double-elimination competition
Double-elimination resulted in 80 fights. Since we usually average only about 20 fights per hour, there simply would not be enough time to fit everything in.
Thus I propose to go back to the system of having a non-spinner competition in the morning, followed by a single-elimination AWS.
The non-spinner competition will be limited to
one robot per team. Luckily there are 16 teams attending so that's a nice, straightforward competition consisting of 16 fights.
The AWS will be run with first-round melees, eight 4-way melees plus four 3-way melees. One robot will be eliminated from each melee with 3 (or 2) going through to the next round. This then gives 32 robots in a straight one-on-one knockout, a total of 44 fights.
Everyone still gets at least 2 fights, and we get time for supers, fleas and minisumo.
[Dons Nomex suit and awaits reactions...]