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Eagleeyedan
15-03-2011, 19:18
How has FIRST been impacted in Japan by the recent tragedy? Are any teams from Japan going to be competing?
Chris is me
15-03-2011, 19:22
To my knowledge, FRC has no teams in Japan.
Eagleeyedan
15-03-2011, 19:27
There aren't? That surprises me. They are so focused on technology!
Koko Ed
15-03-2011, 19:27
To my knowledge, FRC has no teams in Japan.

I do recall an FLL team from Japan last year.
davidthefat
15-03-2011, 19:30
There aren't? That surprises me. They are so focused on technology!

There are more "hardcore" robot organizations. I mean hardcore as in humanoid bots.
Eagleeyedan
15-03-2011, 19:32
There are more "hardcore" robot organizations. I mean hardcore as in humanoid bots.

True but I don't think that their highschool kids are making those:)
nikeairmancurry
15-03-2011, 19:58
Im pretty sure FIRST had a good following in Japan.. Espically for FLL
bam-bam
15-03-2011, 20:18
Japan has extreme robotic programs literally everywhere. There are several videos of mouse mazes ran by little robots. I don't have the right time to do it now, but I will get some videos up sometime.
Eagleeyedan
15-03-2011, 20:27
Im pretty sure FIRST had a good following in Japan.. Espically for FLL

Yeah, I know they have FLL I've almost competed against them at worlds last year. I wonder if they will still be around after the tsunami.
Eagleeyedan
15-03-2011, 20:28
Japan has extreme robotic programs literally everywhere. There are several videos of mouse mazes ran by little robots. I don't have the right time to do it now, but I will get some videos up sometime.

But what about FIRST teams?
GaryVoshol
15-03-2011, 21:04
To my knowledge there has never been an FRC team in Japan.

There are a lot of FLL teams; they hosted a championship invitational (like the LegoLand or European events).

I don't know about FTC.
lynca
16-03-2011, 00:08
Japan VEX has been around a few years.

http://robotevents.com/asij-vrx-roboics-challenge.html

I am fairly certain FRC has not started in Asia.
We have had European , south american , Australia but not from ASIA
RandomStyuff
18-03-2011, 09:54
Well, Israel is usually considered Asia, and we have more FRC teams than all the other non-North American locations together (48 Israeli FRC teams this year), so I wouldn't say there is no Asia.
Lil' Lavery
18-03-2011, 10:07
There aren't? That surprises me. They are so focused on technology!

Exactly why it should be a low-priority target for FRC.
Jared Russell
18-03-2011, 10:12
Japan VEX has been around a few years.

http://robotevents.com/asij-vrx-roboics-challenge.html

I am fairly certain FRC has not started in Asia.
We have had European , south american , Australia but not from ASIA

Do the Philippines count for Asia?
MattC9
19-03-2011, 01:19
Do the Philippines count for Asia?

I would give it Asia