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ehochstein 31-10-2012 19:10
AndyMark FIRST Choice Tease
 
AndyMark sent out an email today with the subject "FIRST Choice Tease"

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Greetings!

Things are VERY busy here at AndyMark this fall. Staff has traveled to several off-season events in recent weeks - Panther Prowl, SCRIW, CAGE, Houston Robot Remix and are on their way to Cow Town ThrowDown this weekend. We are also receiving parts almost daily for FIRST Choice, so our warehouse seems to be shrinking. We thought we would use this e-mail blast to talk about the growth we are seeing.

FIRST Robotics is growing! The registration for teams is progressing very well. According to FRC team 358 mentor, WFFA winner and stat tracking guru Mark McLeod, here are FRC team registration numbers as of noon today:
2298 Registered FRC teams, compared to 1943 on this date last year
This is a 18.3% growth rate.
FIRST hopes to get as many as 2800 teams for the 2013 season. Here is a snapshot of the number of registered events for FRC teams:
Teams attending 3 Events: 1%
Teams attending 2 Events: 29%
Teams attending 1 Event: 70%
Key dates are coming up soon for FRC teams. FIRST Choice parts will be available to be viewed on the AndyMark site beginning Nov. 12th. Then, teams will be able to order their FIRST Choice parts BEFORE kickoff this year, on Dec. 10th. There were 689 teams who chose an AndyMark PDV instead of the Kit Drive System, and those teams will be able to start using their $450 PDV for AndyMark parts also on Dec. 10th. Check out FIRST's official Blog announcement here.



Look for new products to be released at AndyMark.com in the coming weeks.
Any ideas on what is under those blue tarps or in the boxes?

Gregor 31-10-2012 19:14
Re: AndyMark FIRST Choice Tease
 
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Originally Posted by Wiifi (Post 1192364)
Any ideas on what is under those blue tarps or in the boxes?
Some FIRST Choice stuff :p

ehochstein 31-10-2012 19:15
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Originally Posted by Gregor (Post 1192365)
Some FIRST Choice stuff :p
No wait I got it... The FIRST Choice items this year are boxes and blue tarps :P Robots have to build a shelter to protect themselves from rain... Water game!

Phyrxes 31-10-2012 20:14
Re: AndyMark FIRST Choice Tease
 
So someone at HQ reads XKCD and decided to make that comic come true, spiffy!

Redo91 31-10-2012 20:17
Re: AndyMark FIRST Choice Tease
 
The arrows are obviously pointing at the wood pallets.

DampRobot 31-10-2012 21:14
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Originally Posted by Redo91 (Post 1192372)
The arrows are obviously pointing at the wood pallets.
You are incorrect, dear sir. The arrows clearly indicate that the concrete floor is a FIRST Choice material. My calculations indicate that the game will involve pouring large areas of concrete and waiting for it to dry. Field reset should be interesting.

Jeff Pahl 31-10-2012 21:23
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I'm hoping we can get more than one blue tarp!!

ehfeinberg 31-10-2012 21:25
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Originally Posted by DampRobot (Post 1192377)
You are incorrect, dear sir. The arrows clearly indicate that the concrete floor is a FIRST Choice material. My calculations indicate that the game will involve pouring large areas of concrete and waiting for it to dry. Field reset should be interesting.
You are both wrong!

The arrows are pointing towards the blue tarps. Now, why might there be tarps there, one may ask? To protect what it is covering from water! Therefore, the arrows are pointing to the water droplets on the tarps, thus indicating a water game!:D

jeremy callahan 31-10-2012 22:16
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Originally Posted by Redo91 (Post 1192372)
The arrows are obviously pointing at the wood pallets.
They are point towards a pallet and what do you do to stuff on pallets you stack stuff and so it will be some to do with stacking boxes and when was the last event we did that?

Saberbot 31-10-2012 22:40
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We could really use some of CSI's image enhancement software. With that we could isolate the reflection on the concrete and see below the tarps.

JVN 31-10-2012 23:11
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Richard Wallace 31-10-2012 23:59
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Tarp

(how many permutations can I make?)

Part
Trap
Prat
Rapt

This is fun.

Maybe the 2013 game is called "Tarp Trap"?

Littleboy 01-11-2012 06:43
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Maybe we are allowed to use parts to build the robot. That would be new.
But I think the game will involve us building cardboard boats, putting robots in to paddle them, and then race around the pool.

mickztlin 09-11-2012 18:02
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I checked andy mark and the new products and they added polycarbonate and I think the game may be have a high and low traction field.

ksafin 11-11-2012 23:06
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Any idea of FIRST Choice window shopping opens at midnight?


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