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i have a question about the mentor matches....who is the drive coach? Because I was thinking it would be kinda cool for a team member to be the drive coach....

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the driver coach can be anyone you want but we like to see the students back there getting revenge at yelling at us mentors for a change in the heat of battle:cool:

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haha ok cool :) I was kinda hoping on getting my revenge up close ;)

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I'd love to attend if someone could get me from WI to MARC ;) I'll split a long road trip with someone... No way 1714 or 2791's going though of course, but it's the summer and I won't have anything else to do so I might as well volunteer.

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We have a student coach anyway. I want to see the mentors take all four spots and see how they do!

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and that is perfectly fine and allowed :)

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Team 573 decided on signing up today! We're excited to be a part of the competition!

Interesting tid-bit...My name is Marc, so it was really confusing communicating about the competition at the meeting today. I can't wait to get a shirt though!

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Thanks to everyone who has volunteered for the event so far. I have most of the volunteer positions filled a whopping 2 months before the event!

I *am* still in need of photographers and queuers for MARC, so if you are interested, please feel free to shoot me an e-mail at lisaperez[at]gmail[dot]com.

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Last year was our first year at the MARC and we loved it!!! We are signed up.

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2010 MARC Event Schedule

24-Jun-10
10am - 2pm Pit Set-up
2pm - 8pm Field Set-up/testing


25-Jun-10
12pm -3pm Team Registration and set-up
12:30pm - 2:30 pm Practice Begins
2:30pm -2:45 pm Drivers Meeting
2:45pm - 3pm Opening Comments
3pm - 6pm Qualification Matches
6:15pm - 8:15pm Mentor Driver matches
9pm Pits Close
6pm - 10pm Team Social (PIG Roast)

26-Jun-10
8am - 8:45am Pits Open
9am - 9:30am Opening Ceremony
9:30am-1:15pm Qualifying Matches
1:15pm -1:30pm Final Alliance Selection
1:30pm - 2:30pm Lunch Break
2:30pm - 4:30pm Eliminations Matches Begin
4:45pm Awards Ceremony
5:15pm Event Ends/Field Breakdown

FINALS: Top 8 seeds w/3 partners (looking for teams input on how to run alliance selection)

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This will probably be like blasphemy to some but i would like to see someday all the teams participate in the eliminations. I know time constraints would be one problem and how would you divide up the teams another. Maybe based just on rank with team 1 getting 9,team 2 getting 10 and so on. It could be run like wrestling were if you lose one match you drop into a second tier and can work your way back up to the top. Lose two matches and go home. Just a thought. It looks like you are having four teams on an alliance. Do they all have to play?

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I am still looking into that. You should have received an e-mail and I am waiting on those replies. I am currently favoring 4 team alliances and every team has to play at least one match. Not one match per round like last year.

The selection of 1-9, 2-10, 3-11, 4-12, 5-13, 6-14, 7-15, 8-16 and then captain selections 1-8, 8-1 might be a possibility also.

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What's the current team list?

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In as far as I recall something similar was tried several years ago in FIRST (I want to say 2001 but I can't recall exactly) perhaps reading up on the pros and cons of that would be beneficial.

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I would like having a 4 team alliance with every team having to play once. I only suggest the alliance selections go 1-8, 8-1, 1-8. I'm not sure it is that fair to force the top seed to play the 32nd best team at the event, while giving them 24th and 25th team gives them a lot of flexibility in strategy (and tough decisions).

If you haven't recieved offical word yet, it is looking good that 1732 will be returning to MARC after missing last year.