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We're trying to get some things on the school schedule this summer, including FTC and FRC events for the next year.
We know when our local (1-2 miles from school) regional is suppose to be scheduled, and can't attend due to a conflict, and so have to look elsewhere in the region. Unfortunately there are currently zero FRC events listed on the FIRST web site. Does anyone know when the event database starts to populate with next season's information? Thanks! |
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If it's like last year (http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...-being-posted), events will start to be posted about a month from now. And then it'll take a couple of months until all events are posted, since they aren't posted until they are confirmed (generally means contracts are in hand and signed).
If you want to get tentative info on a schedule now, your best bet is to contact the RD or regional planning committee for the events you're considering and see if they can give you some unofficial guidance. For example, I know that The scheduling of the MN events is almost settled, but is by no means assured yet. Besides venue availability, we also have to consider other nearby events (Milwaukee and Chicago, for example), and how scheduling for all of those events will impact a new event in.... But I've said too much already. I'll leave that as a teaser for all of the teams who have been clamoring for another event somewhere in the upper Midwest :D |
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What Jon said. I know Palmetto's dates have already been discussed among the teams, because it's possible that we'll have to shoehorn it into a Wednesday-Thursday-Friday format.
(I hope they find a way to fit it in the regular window, but if they don't: any team that's bold enough to do Palmetto and then a Saturday-Sunday district event the two days after gets a cookie.) |
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Week 5 for Vegas...contract signed I believe (I'm on planning committee).
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I think Midwest will be week 4 this year. The regional usually falls on UIC's spring break which is a week earlier this year And the season starts 1 week late.
This is total speculation and could very easily be wrong |
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anyone have an idea if the PNW champs are going back to Portland next year? It would be nice to have a general idea now to get some funds before the rush.
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Why is the kickoff on Jan. 9th 2016 ?
It seems the kickoff should be Jan 2nd 2016 ? |
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Part of the problem with having kickoff too early is shipping the KoP. With there being so many holidays in there where nothing moves and shipping organizations being overwhelmed by the holiday rush, it's difficult to get stuff to the kick off locations on time as it is. And just shipping everything earlier isn't that great of an option, because then you need to arrange for storage at all those different kickoff sites, with the possibility of having to store off-site and then use a rental truck and volunteers to move it to the kick off site... The logistics are just messy all around. |
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A year ago, dates for 2015 events began to be officially posted.
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Blog Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - 17:58 Event Dates Check it out: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...egional-events We’ve just started posting event dates and locations for which we have confirmed information. ‘Confirmed’ means either that FIRST HQ has a signed agreement with the venue, or that District organizers have passed along to us firm information on their events. Please keep in mind that even though we may have signed contracts with the venues, things still can change! It’s very unlikely, but still possible. We have a few more event dates and locations ready to post, we’ll be getting those up shortly.... ...Another FRC Season is in the air! I’m getting really excited! Frank Will we start seeing official posts for 2016 events anytime soon? |
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The first few events just started popping up. I expect an official announcement soon:
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...egional-events |
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Lone Star is booked for Apr 7th-9th according to the GRB calendar, making it a week 6 event.
http://www.houstonconventionctr.com/Attendees/CalendarofEvents.aspx |
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Many Canadian dates got added.
GTCR week 1. GTER week 2. North Bay week 4. Waterloo week 5. WEGLR week 6. |
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PNW has listed their dates.
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*Notes: Weeks are skewed thanks to the moved kickoff date. No more Shorewood district either. Quote:
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Honestly, I don't like the Portland events being weeks 2 and 5. It means that a Portland team either has to travel, or do back to back events. Both of which have downsides. And since there is no washington event week 4, it means the only Travel event for oregon teams to not go back to back is philomath. If a week 4 washington event doesn't get added, there is going to be some major congestion in Oregon at Wilsonville and Philomath. |
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Any information out there on the MN regionals? Will they be going back to their normal weeks 2 and 5 dates?
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I'll be fine if the Minneapolis regionals stay week 6, but what I really want is the Duluth regionals to move back to week 2 again because I would like to avoid the idea of attending a week 1 regional at all costs.. |
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I will, however, point you to the list of NCAA Championship sites, which has a Women's Gymnastics event in the Sports Pavilion (where the 10,000 Lakes pits are) Saturday April 2, 2016, which is week 5. So, it's a safe bet the Minneapolis events won't be week 5! |
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Only one event in Eastern Washington? This is a tragedy.
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Whenever someone says a regional date is confirmed, I can only think its confirmed for Smash. I'd love to see Minneapolis on week 6 again.
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I really hope the upstate New York events aren't back-to-back weekends again. That was terrible this year. No time for improvement between events and a ton of burnout. It also caused some of our Rochester friends to not compete at the Tech Valley event this year, which was unfortunate.
Normally both colleges do their events on one of the weekends of their spring break. In 2016, RPI's spring break is 3/14-3/18, and RIT's is 3/21-3/25. So as long as RPI does the first weekend of their break again and RIT does the 2nd weekend of their break, we should be fine. Tech Valley could be 3/10-3/12, while Finger Lakes could be 3/25-3/26. |
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Lone Star just got listed!
Looks like it's week 6! |
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LA and Sacramento now posted...
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...egional-events |
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Bayou confirmed for week 3 March 16-19th, on the FIRST website.
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Looking at the bright side: All other week 1 events just got an upgrade. All the FRC tracking applications just got another scenario to track. The bag and tag seal will be extra fresh. Should get good FRC community exposure on the webcast. In reality, it was the better deal to handle venue scheduling conflicts. I hope the event will still be attractive to teams outside of SC. David |
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Does this mean there will be 8 weeks of pre-championship competition now instead of 7? I would hate to go to the new week 1. |
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http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...metto-Regional Honestly, since teams have never had that large of turnaround, I wonder if FIRST would consider letting those teams not bag their robots. Having only a day to work on spares and other stuff seems like those teams would be getting screwed more then normal. Not requiring bag for only those teams could be a nice way to increase the fairness. |
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Poor Ohio and Canadian teams would have to bag their robot and immediately get on the bus to make it in time! |
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Spare-making and all that isn't ideal, but having done Week 1 for the past three years: we are usually so tired/burnt out/behind on other work that we don't go back into the shop for most of that time except to clean up and pack the trailer. This change doesn't really change much. Quote:
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I actually really like this week 0.5 event. I know I'll be watching for sure. Can someone start planning for a high quality webcast now.
Hopefully we do see some district teams at the event. That will increase the competition level for everyone watching. |
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That said, if someone wanted to set the bar for The RoboShow I'm sure I could get you connected with the right people. ;) |
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RIP Build Season Week 6 sleep schedule.
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Bayou(week 3) and Greater Pittsburgh(week 2) got listed!
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Qualifying for CMP as an district team at a regional should either not count for a district's slots or generate a wildcard to not take a spot from regional teams. |
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So far I have a solid idea of what week one, two, five,six, seven and obviously eight look like for me. I'm curious to see what three and four look like.
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For those of you that were unaware of our debacle at Northstar in 2015 with connecting to the FMS, I want to find out early if we will have problems. This robot was our most complete in terms of autonomous, field play, and total team prep. Our practice robot played flawlessly by week 4 and we felt we were ready to competes with the best (2826 and 3130) - I am not saying we would be at their level, but we would have been in the mix. We were stacking 3 sets of 4 totes and capping in practice. We were also 7lbs underweight which would have allowed us to use our strafe. I feel having a week 1 Regional will give us great feedback to work with. As for the week 5 Regional - it falls better in Becker's school calendar. Week 6 would work - but it means much more hurried planning if we make it to Championships. So I throw it back to you - why not week 1 and 5? |
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As for attending 2 regionals, that's a great idea. I understand why you guys want Duluth to be week 1, because you guys can expose yourselves to gameplay as early as possible, test/tweak issues with the robot, and use the experience you guys gained at Duluth to improve your robot even further at your second regional. The reason I dislike week 1 regionals, even though they provide a tremendous amount of learning experience and tremendous amounts of things to improve upon, is because I'm not sure what I'm going to expect during the regional. I'm not sure what strategies will be successful or not successful, I haven't seen other regional webcasts and observed what strategies win other regionals or what type of robots I'll expect at regionals, I'm not sure whether all the metrics we've created for the scouting team will be useful, etc. I could go on a large tangent about how unprepared teams can be when tackling week 1 regionals, but at the same time it may not be as bad next year because the Palmetto regional will be hosted a week before all of next year's week 1 events, thus giving week 1 teams an opportunity to view a regional webcast to absorb everything they can from watching that regional. That's the reason I don't want Duluth to be week 1, but it won't be the end of the world if it still is week 1 next year. I'm not really opposed to having the Minneapolis regionals being week 5, I'm fine with either week 5 or 6. |
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However, because MN as a whole is a relative new comer to FRC, week 1 event allows for some teams to surprise the competition (especially the more established teams). With a week 2 these established teams have some time to adjust. A week 1 event, especially since Duluth has two Regionals, puts MN in the spotlight and allows for teams to showcase strategies straight away. This is an advantage for us as we (MN) can set the tone for the rest of the season. It also allows FRC to train in a lot of volunteers that will then go on to other Regionals. It also allows for fields to start in Duluth and then head elsewhere rather than try to figure out how to get two fields back to MN. For these reasons alone I think that those in charge will try to keep Duluth week 1 - but that is just my opinion. It will be interesting to see where the 5th "MN" Regional will be placed and how that effects teams choosing Duluth. I know my team would like a chance at gaining the first Winners Banner at the new regional! See you at SRS weekend! |
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I can't wait until they reveal where the 5th MN regional will be placed and when it'll be held week wise during the competition season. I wonder what they'll name the 5th MN regional as well. Minnesnowta regional? :D See you at SRS too, I'm sure it'll be a fun event! |
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I'll be back in a few months after I've figured out how to get these 3D printed horns to stick to the forehead of a caribou.... |
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They've released the dates for the Lake Superior Regional and the Northern Lights Regional, looks like it's week 1 again.
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Not everything I wanted. Mark Lawrence let us know that MPLS regionals are Week 6 - but I will take it. He also stated the most likely date for the (probable) Iowa Regional would be Week 4. I think if that is the case it does not align well for the WI, MN, IL, and MO teams that want more variety in the dates offered (as it would be the same week as WI). Hopefully in future years they can get the Iowa Regional on week 3 or 5 away from WI and MN Regionals. 2016 is starting to take shape! Gotta love it! |
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Mark gave it 50 or more % chance of that a Iowa regional would take place at the University of Northern Iowa- Cedar falls. Even though it's the same week as Wisconsin and possibly even Central Illinois, it certainly is exciting news for Iowa teams that a Iowa regional may take place next year. It's certainly exciting that 2016 is starting to take shape. Now lets wait and see when Wisconsin, Central Illinois and Midwest regionals will release their dates. |
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