Meeting 2019-11-25¶
Match Scheduling¶
- On Thursday afternoon we have 1.5 - 2 hours of tinker time in the arena.
- Then HR style for all league matches
- Bursts of matches and tinkering.
- Each burst contains every team exactly once.
- 2 minute matches.
- 5 minutes match slots (exc. staging)
- 35 min burst lengths
Thursday¶
- 1315 - 1445: Tinker Time in Arena
- To be allocated fairly somehow undefined at this point.
- 1445 - 1715: 4 x League Bursts (16 matches) (135 mins)
Friday¶
- 0900 - 1215: 5x League Leagues (20 matches) (195 mins)
- 1300 - 1415: Knockouts
- 4 x "Heats" 20 mins
- 2 x "Semi-Finals" 10 mins
- 1 x "Final" 5 mins
- There is 40 mins of flex here.
Locations¶
Options that we have:
- The Cube + Bar 2 + Other space in SUSU
- Pros
- AV / Sound / Lighting is awesome
- Affordable
- Experience in this location
- SUSU Tech / StageSoc
- Balcony for control
- Nearby to Piazza
- Cons
- Cinema more difficult
- More spread out
- Smallpeice supervision
- Public area
- Carefully consider fire capacity of the cube with crowd barriers.
- Smaller arena to mitigate
- Pros
- Old Sports Hall
- Pros
- Everything fits in one room
- Need to check
- Balcony for control
- Everything fits in one room
- Cons
- No AV equipment
- Bad Acoustics
- Difficult to get to (back entrance)
- Accessible access is unknown
- Power?
- Unknown location. Requires reconnaissance
- Lack of atmosphere
- Pros
- Garden Court / Hartley Suite
- Pros
- Good support from events
- Good proximity / separation
- Loads of space
- Cons
- Expensive
- Impractical
- Might conflict with formal
- Too complicated to draw
- Pros
Arena¶
- We will be going with a truss arena.
Ideas¶
- Tommy suggests asking the video game commentary people to commentate