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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
  • Old Sports Hall
    • Pros
      • Everything fits in one room
        • Need to check
      • Balcony for control
    • Cons
      • No AV equipment
      • Bad Acoustics
      • Difficult to get to (back entrance)
      • Accessible access is unknown
      • Power?
      • Unknown location. Requires reconnaissance
      • Lack of atmosphere
  • 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

Arena

  • We will be going with a truss arena.

Ideas

  • Tommy suggests asking the video game commentary people to commentate