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Gitchi Gummi Get Together
It’s finally here! The first ever Gitchi Gummi Get Together, and it’s coming this summer to Duluth, MN.
After a lot of planning and organizing, team 2512 finally pulled together a summer mini-regional. As always, it’s free and open to the public. We will also need about 80 volunteers to pull this off. If you want to help us out by donating your time, visit www.daredevils2512.org!
What: Gitchi Gummi Get Together
When: August 16, 2014
Where: Duluth East High School, 301 N 40th Ave East Duluth, Minn USA 5504
Costs: Lunch is $5.00, and registration is $175.00.
Registration is first come first serve, please register by July 15. We will only being accepting 30 teams for the first year.
If you have any questions or comments please post them!!!!
Jon Stratis
02-07-2014, 14:16
Good luck with the event! Duluth is awesome this time of year, and it'll be great to spread off-season events outside of the twin cities. I can't wait to see the list of teams attending!
2175 is registered and excited to attend! Do you plan on webcasting the event, if not we have some new stuff for webcasting that we are looking to try out at some offseason events if we have enough students there to run it.
Good luck with the event! Duluth is awesome this time of year, and it'll be great to spread off-season events outside of the twin cities. I can't wait to see the list of teams attending!
Yes its very nice to see a mini-regional outside of the twin cities.
If you're team is interested; you can visit our teams website and look at the list above the registration. As of now we are very excited to be hosting these teams.
Team 2512, Duluth East Daredevils
Team 2175, The Fighting Calculators
Team 3292, Otterbots
Team 876, Thunder Robotics
Team 4009, DNA Robotics
Note: If we don't reach the required amount of teams that are needed (10-15), this event will have to be cancelled. SIGN UP!!!
2175 is registered and excited to attend! Do you plan on webcasting the event, if not we have some new stuff for webcasting that we are looking to try out at some offseason events if we have enough students there to run it.
We would love your help in web casting the event. Thank your very much.
What equipment would you be bringing and would you need any help with any additional equipment you guys won't be able to provide?
Jon Stratis
02-07-2014, 15:39
Note: If we don't reach the required amount of teams that are needed (10-15), this event will have to be cancelled. SIGN UP!!!
Unfortunately, that's a very busy time of year for our team... we're hosting our own summer camp and prepping for the State Fair competition early next month (in addition to our ongoing Alpha/Beta testing program). I doubt we can fit in traveling up to Duluth as well.
Christopher149
02-07-2014, 22:19
857 might be interested in attending (I'd like to volunteer if the team doesn't come), but I have a question about hotel availability. Seems there is quite a bit going on that weekend (bike race, lawyers' convention, etc) and hotel rooms appear scarce and expensive. What are other traveling teams doing, and does anyone having lodging suggestions?
PS. If you're wondering, we live about 4.5 hours away.
Aren Siekmeier
03-07-2014, 11:26
857 might be interested in attending (I'd like to volunteer if the team doesn't come), but I have a question about hotel availability. Seems there is quite a bit going on that weekend (bike race, lawyers' convention, etc) and hotel rooms appear scarce and expensive. What are other traveling teams doing, and does anyone having lodging suggestions?
PS. If you're wondering, we live about 4.5 hours away.
The calcs are camping out at Jay Cooke State Park, about a 30 minute drive away. Hopefully the weather is nice in mid August.
ehochstein
03-07-2014, 18:57
857 might be interested in attending (I'd like to volunteer if the team doesn't come), but I have a question about hotel availability. Seems there is quite a bit going on that weekend (bike race, lawyers' convention, etc) and hotel rooms appear scarce and expensive. What are other traveling teams doing, and does anyone having lodging suggestions?
PS. If you're wondering, we live about 4.5 hours away.
It is a very popular time of year to be in Duluth... I would suggest looking for hotels in Two Harbors or Superior. Basically check the surrounding areas and you might be able to find something.
I don't know about the rest of 3883, but I'd be enchanted to go (and would even risk camping). I'm also excited to see what 2175 has in terms of webcasts. :D
857 might be interested in attending (I'd like to volunteer if the team doesn't come), but I have a question about hotel availability. Seems there is quite a bit going on that weekend (bike race, lawyers' convention, etc) and hotel rooms appear scarce and expensive. What are other traveling teams doing, and does anyone having lodging suggestions?
PS. If you're wondering, we live about 4.5 hours away.
Duluth is a very busy that time of the year and this was actually the best weekend we could have. Duluth has a few hotels and probably some motels you guys can stay at. There are probably a few campgrounds you can stay at that aren't too far away that you guys can stay at.
If you guys decide to come would you like me to private message you, or even just post for other teams that would stay the night, hotels or camping grounds that teams can stay at? This early I won't know if these hotels are opens or campground are available during that weekend but you guys can also reserve spots where teams can stay.
Remember registration ends the 15th of July for our mini-regional. Please sign up if you guys can come and if you have any questions/comments/concerns please comment in this thread or private message me.
The deadline for our mini-regional sign up has moved to July 21. Please sign up ASAP if you can. We have 7 teams signed up so we need more teams. We would love to see any teams at our mini-regional. :]
Due to a sudden surge in interest, if your team is making last minute plans to attend and you need an extension please contact us at daredevils2512@gmail.com or our team co-captain karl@fazwak.com
ehochstein
21-07-2014, 15:31
2470 is trying to pull something together and get a couple of students up there with our robot!
We'll see what we can do.
Only one more week!
We will be streaming the event at:
fightingcalculators.org/webcast
(http://www.fightingcalculators.org/webcast)and
twitch.tv/frc2175 (http://www.twitch.tv/frc2175)
allgoodthehood
13-08-2014, 21:27
The official match schedule is now posted on our website: daredevils2512.org (http://www.daredevils2512.org)
The doors will open at 7 on Saturday, we will have practice time before the opening ceremony, and we will also have a practice field for teams to use. However, we are in a shortage of balls. So, if your team could bring all of the balls you had it would be greatly appreciated. Since were having a full field as well as a practice field we need a lot of them, so if you could borrow some from any teams that would be great. At this point it would be better if we had to many rather than not enough. If you could let me, or my team, know how many your bringing, and what color they are that would be fantastic!
Don't forget about the link for the webcast! Tell all of the teams you know, so they can see this great event and considering coming next year. See you at the competition :)
I will be avidly watching and commenting from Twitch! It will be a much more riveting event than Fish Plays Pokemon for sure.
Team 2175 is happy to introduce Team 9001 #teamgreg who will be made up of various team members competing with our practice bot (Greg). See everyone tomorrow, looks to be a fun event with lots of playing time for all.
peirvine
16-08-2014, 10:20
Update: We are having problems with twitch.tv. We are now streaming on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxoQ83TTvDs).
WaterClaw
16-08-2014, 18:41
So with the off season even coming to a close, does anyone have any requests or recommendations for next year's competition? We are planning on continuing this competition for many years to come and would love to make it a better place to compete and come together.
If you were unable to come and wish to make recommendations for making the event more accessible for you, feel free to post it. We would love all of the feedback.
Jon Stratis
16-08-2014, 19:29
First suggestion would be timing... A lot of teams couldn't be there this weekend due to the conflict with the State Fair (robots were dropped off last week!), and in fact I know a couple of teams dropped out of the State Fair competition to attend yours - It would be much better for everyone to avoid having these events conflict!
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