Re: Never been to championship before got questions
 

No, however you can party it up in the stands! Just the Georgia dome asks that you don't bring poster boards, cause it blocks others vision!

Re: Never been to championship before got questions
 

You can definitely party in the stands, but please do so with everyone else behind you in consideration. :) If your team wants to party in the stands you can, but you will get yelled at to sit down or move. I know team 33 was asked to move to the side of the field because they were blocking vision, and they did very graciously. And it is not just with signs, just standing up blocks vision.

NOTE to everyone! Please do not stand up in the stands during a match. There are other people in the stands such as scouts and spectators who cannot see when people stand up. The slope in the dome is really shallow so if you stand 20 rows in front of someone, you are still blocking the field. And when someone close to the field stands (don't know why, they are already really close to the field), everyone has to stand behind them and it is still hard to see over/impossible. We were in the back of the stands so we could get power (we are changing this so we can go further down the stands) and in front of the handicapped section. We were annoyed, but we just stood up with our clip boards and scouted the robots we could see, but those in wheel chairs do not have that ability. :o

Please don't take the word "stands" literally and stand in the stands. ;)

Good luck in Atlanta!

Re: Never been to championship before got questions
 

Typically when are divisions posted? I'm going nuts waiting to input teams for scouting.

Re: Never been to championship before got questions
 

FIRST posts them only when we're not looking....

Re: Never been to championship before got questions
 

<closes eyes tightly> I do believe in Champs divisions, I do believe in Champs divisions, I do believe in Champs divisions...<opens eyes> Dang there still not here :eek:

Re: Never been to championship before got questions
 

When reading the essential information for the championships, it said that working on the robots and setting up pits on wednesday was ok, but a couple pages later it said teams couldn't do that.

Re: Never been to championship before got questions
 

This year, they are allowing work on robots, as well as pit setup, wifi encryption, etc on Wednesday night. In past years, they have not. I suspect conflicting documentation is a result of poor year to year updating.

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Random Tips:

Bring the opposite bumpers or bumper cover to what you need in a match, a spare battery, and some simple tools so you don't HAVE to walk back to the pits. In the past we've had matches that were relatively close together and we would chose to stay out in the dome and wait for our next match because it didn't make sense to go back to the pits for 15 minutes just to walk out again.

Have someone in the stands give you updates via text or phone call so you know what match is on the field. You can't always rely on announcements or the feed to the pits. I've also found that you should leave about 4-5 matches ahead of your scheduled match just to make sure you'll be there in time. I always allotted our team about 10 minutes to get from the pits to the field last year. This time will vary depending on what division you're in, Curie and Archimedes Pits are closest to the Exit of the Pits, but the fields are furthest from the Entrance to the Dome, and the opposite is true for Newton and Galileo.

Re: Never been to championship before got questions
 

I suspect this is 100% intentional.

Re: Never been to championship before got questions
 

I think it got changed. Page 5 of the latest document indicates the new rules under Load-In. Page 9 refers to this change in the section for Registration and Uncrating.

Re: Never been to championship before got questions
 

That's where i read it. It just seemed like the same thing to me. And if they changed it, why leave the section on page 9 about not being able to work on the robot or pits?

Re: Never been to championship before got questions
 

they are up

Re: Never been to championship before got questions
 

Wait...I wasn't looking....

Re: Never been to championship before got questions
 

They've had the general list of teams up for awhile, but I noticed that between yesterday and today, the count went up by one. I suspect FIRST is still waiting to make sure all the teams are registered before they make the divisions.

RoboMom, I just looked and I didn't see--

Wait--people are discussing divisions on CD! Here's a link at the FIRST site, but they sure hid it well. It's probably not final yet. The link will not take you directly there.