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FrankJ
19-09-2014, 10:13
Link to Frank's Blog (http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/blog-New-FRC-Regional-in-Australia)
New FRC Regional in Australia!
Blog Date:
Friday, September 19, 2014 - 09:52

The rumors are true! We will have an official FRC Regional Down Under in the 2015 season. We couldn’t be more excited about this, or about helping our friends at Macquarie University, who honestly are doing most of the heavy lifting, make this happen. It will be a Week 3 event. Look for more details in the events listing: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/regional-events

The crack FRC Engineering team is currently working on dealing with the fact that water circulates in the opposite direction when draining in the southern hemisphere compared to the northern hemisphere.*

Frank

*It doesn’t, actually. Snopes! And 2015 will not be a water game.
dodar
19-09-2014, 10:22
Dont know if happy for regional in Australia or ruin thread by going off on a tangent about an official from FIRST confirming water game...
FrankJ
19-09-2014, 10:23
The other Frank started it... :]
BrendanB
19-09-2014, 10:29
Way to go 3132! I remember when some friends moved to Australia and started the FIRST FRC team down under and now to see the growth in FIRST programs and now a regional!

Next stop: districts. ;)
Christopher149
19-09-2014, 11:06
Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre looks like a decent venue (basketball court with bleacher seating). Hopefully this can stick around better than the Brazil regional event.
dag0620
19-09-2014, 11:08
Immediately starts trying to figure out how to make a trip to Australia week 3 work....

All kidding aside, congratulations to the Australia FRC community on having your own event. This is insanely awesome! I know a bunch of us in New England are excited to watch and will be cheering everyone on!
Ian Curtis
19-09-2014, 11:27
Frank is clearly telling us that next year we're all playing footy. Can't wait! :)

http://www.thesouthafrican.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Sherrin-Soft-RedB.jpg
Lil' Lavery
19-09-2014, 16:22
Glad this finally happened! They announced an Australian regional at the 2009 championship event as well, but it ultimately didn't materialize and [some portion of] the teams ended up competing in VEX, iirc. Guess my old school Australian regional shirt will become relevant again.
waialua359
19-09-2014, 19:12
We have our airfares reserved already. 99.99% chance we will attend.:)
Thad House
19-09-2014, 19:16
We have our airfares reserved already. 99.99% chance we will attend.:)

Wow. Its only 1000 miles extra to go to Sydney from Hawaii then to Chicago from Hawaii. Thats not alot further to travel for you guys.
waialua359
19-09-2014, 19:27
Wow. Its only 1000 miles extra to go to Sydney from Hawaii then to Chicago from Hawaii. Thats not alot further to travel for you guys.

Its actually a lot of miles considering that we are looking at week 1 in either Georgia or Dallas.:ahh:
FrankJ
19-09-2014, 20:17
Its actually a lot of miles considering that we are looking at week 1 in either Georgia or Dallas.:ahh:

We would love to have you in Georgia!!
Jscout11
19-09-2014, 21:45
Really cool to see this finally confirmed. It was awesome to get to work with 3132 and the other Australian teams last year! Truly world class programs, best of luck to all!
BrendanB
19-09-2014, 23:41
Its actually a lot of miles considering that we are looking at week 1 in either Georgia or Dallas.:ahh:

Let's hope your robot can travel that fast!
mwmac
22-09-2014, 11:44
We have our airfares reserved already. 99.99% chance we will attend.:)

Glenn, it is fantastic to hear that you and the Kids will be in attendance supporting a new Antipodean regional! You are true ambassadors of FIRST! I can also confirm that while Team Tators has not yet confirmed their air travel, there is a 00.01% chance we will be there...:) (so wish we could go....)
Jacob Bendicksen
08-03-2015, 21:20
Little bit of a thread necro, but huge congrats to everyone that's making this happen - it's this coming weekend! This event might have the most competition for the rookie awards for any event in a long time - does anyone know what the highest portion of rookie teams has been at an event since '92?
EricH
08-03-2015, 21:23
Little bit of a thread necro, but huge congrats to everyone that's making this happen - it's this coming weekend! This event might have the most competition for the rookie awards for any event in a long time - does anyone know what the highest portion of rookie teams has been at an event since '92?

100%, Israel '05. All 12 teams were rookies in the very first Israel Regional.
Gregor
08-03-2015, 21:23
Little bit of a thread necro, but huge congrats to everyone that's making this happen - it's this coming weekend! This event might have the most competition for the rookie awards for any event in a long time - does anyone know what the highest portion of rookie teams has been at an event since '92?

www.thebluealliance.com/event/2006is
EricH
08-03-2015, 21:32
www.thebluealliance.com/event/2006is

All the 1500- and 1600-block teams at that regional had at least one event already under their belts, some two with one being the 2005 Championship. TBA doesn't have the 2005 Israel Regional Pilot (http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/event/1322/teams?ProgramCode=FRC).