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NEFIRST Championship
Figured I would start off this thread
New England will send 35 teams on to the FIRST Championship Event in St. Louis at the end of April. This includes:
District Award Winners:
Teams Currently Attending: 58 The Riot Crew 61 The Intimidators 88 TJ(Squared) 95 Grasshoppers 125 NUTRONS 126 Gael Force 133 B.E.R.T 138 Entropy 155 The Technonuts 166 Chop Shop 172 Northern Force 173 R.A.G.E. (Robotics & Gadget Engineering) 175 Buzz Robotics 176 Aces High 178 The 2nd Law Enforcers 195 Cyber Knights 213 The Dirty Birds 230 Gaelhawks 236 Techno-Ticks 237 Black Magic Robotics 246 Overclocked 319 Big Bad Bob 348 Norwell Robotics 467 Shrewsbury Colonials 501 The PowerKnights 558 Robo Squad 663 Robonauts 811 Cardinals 885 THE GREEN TEAM 999 MechaRams 1058 PVC Pirates 1073 The Force Team 1100 The T-Hawks 1124 UberBots 1519 Mechanical Mayhem 1735 Green Reapers 1768 Robo Chiefs 2064 The Panther Project 2067 Apple Pi 2168 Aluminum Falcons 2170 Titanium Tomahawks 2342 Team Phoenix 2648 Infinite Loop 2836 Team Beta 2876 Devilbotz 2877 LigerBots 3146 GRANBY GRUNTS 3467 The Windham Windup 3718 Junkyard Battalion 3930 SMART Spruce Mountain Area Robotics Team 4048 Redshift 4055 N R G (Northwestern Robotics Gearheads) 4564 Orange Chaos 4761 The Robockets 4905 Andromeda One 4909 Bionics 5122 robOTies 5687 The Outliers 5735 Control Freaks |
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What a fantastic team list; I can hardly wait to see the level of play throughout the entire event, let alone how our team does!
Should be fantastic; WPI always does a great job hosting! With the large team list (compared to older regionals and districts) and DCMP being a significantly higher-profile event than BattleCry, I am hoping seating (and quality seating!) won't be too bad though... |
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I have heard that the gym at WPI, with both sets of bleachers deployed, has more seating that can see the field than the Agganis Arena at Boston University.
Pit sizing is the biggest concern for me, really. Battlecry was pretty cramped last year and that was with fewer teams. |
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Apparently it's not being held in the same space as BattleCry, rather another venue on campus. Or at least such is the rumor on my team. But the venue for BattleCry was so nice! D:
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It's my understanding that the event will be in Harrington, all of the practice fields (including a real competition field) will be in the adjacent recreation center, and the pits will be under the rec center, just like Battlecry. The back corner of the pits has a freight elevator to get to the practice fields.
The pits are going to be tight. The last map I saw had 11 teams in the loading dock! |
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Happy to provide some clarity on this.
Like our many past Regional, District, and Off-season events, the NE FIRST Championship will be hosted in Harrington Auditorium & the Sports & Rec Center. Harrington (and its 2500+ seats.. meaning each of the 60 teams can have 40+ people with plenty of room) will host the competition area, mentor lounge (with birds-eye view of the field), scholarship row, t-shirt sales, and other displays. And yes, they are just bleachers. Seat cushions are recommended! In the connected Rec Center will be the pit area. No doubt, this will be a cozy fit! Like BC last year, it will feature up to 60 teams. In the choice between a little more elbow room and a few more teams, we decided more teams is better. In the lobby between Harrington and Rec Center there will be inspection, as well as displays from EI and RAS winners who are attending without their robots. One floor up from the pit, accessible via the freight elevator in the pit, is the practice area. This will include a full field (with full electronics running matches), 2 quarter fields (what is typically provided at a district), and an open carpeted area (teams are encouraged to bring their own totes/bins for this area). I hope this clarified the locations of the event. WPI is looking forward to hosting the top teams in New England in an awesome event! |
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Where is the Chairman's interview location?
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Does anyone know how many qualification matches there will be, or how many matches each team is supposed to get? Either works. Just for match planning/scouting sheet printing purposes.
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We will be holding a NEMO (Non-Engineering Mentor Organization) meeting for adult mentors who are interested in the non-technical areas of FRC teams, on Friday, April 10, 2015 from 10am to 11am in the Mentor Lounge, Harrington, WPI, Worcester, MA. You do not have to be a member of NEMO to attend.
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It looks like there has been an adjustment to the lineup with the next 2 ranked teams being invited (663 & 1099)
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I think 663 was already in, but 1099 is fresh, so we have an even 60 teams now.
Yay! No Surrogate Matches. |
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