Forum: General Forum
02-12-2009, 21:37
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Replies: 78
Views: 22,672
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Forum: FIRST E-Mail Blast Archive
02-09-2009, 15:18
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Replies: 93
Views: 15,340
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Forum: District Events
29-03-2009, 19:10
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,127
Re: Robot Access Before State Championship?
The 8 hour robot access periods is essentially a replacement for the missing Thursday pit hours that a traditional regional would have. As the Michigan State Championship is a full 3 day event it is...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
02-03-2009, 15:48
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Replies: 38
Views: 4,633
Re: 2009 traverse city district
There was a mistake, probably mine, in passing the seeding information to the judges. 3115 was the highest rookie seed and the error was corrected immediately after the awards ceremony.
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Forum: District Events
31-07-2008, 16:46
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Replies: 281
Views: 61,237
Re: New FIRST competition structure in Michigan
The top 3 Chairman's and Woodie Flowers award submissions from the state championship will move on to the championship pool. So there will be the same number of Michigan submissions as last year.
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Forum: District Events
30-07-2008, 21:44
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Replies: 281
Views: 61,237
Re: New FIRST competition structure in Michigan
Just to be clear there are not a large number of differences between the district format and a regional format. The biggest change is Thursday has been reduced to an optional 4 hours, with the other...
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Forum: District Events
30-07-2008, 18:04
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Replies: 281
Views: 61,237
Re: New FIRST competition structure in Michigan
The single largest reason why the district events are being limited to Michigan teams only for the 2009 season is logistics. The amount of work required to start up a single new event is enormous. ...
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Forum: District Events
30-07-2008, 17:55
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Replies: 281
Views: 61,237
Re: New FIRST competition structure in Michigan
While the district events will not be identical copies of the regional events the intention is to make them look and feel as close as possible. The Kettering Rookie Regional from last year was a...
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Forum: District Events
30-07-2008, 16:32
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Replies: 281
Views: 61,237
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Forum: District Events
30-07-2008, 16:13
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Replies: 281
Views: 61,237
Re: New FIRST competition structure in Michigan
I believe the State Championship fee will in fact be $4,000.
While for the 2009 season there is no doubt Michigan teams are being given more plays for less it is simply the first step in effecting...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
06-03-2007, 15:23
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Replies: 25
Views: 6,470
Re: pic: Cornelius VIII - FRC469
All the cool kids are doing it! Can't wait to see it in person at Detroit.
The rear ramp deploys as a whole piece. The cutout that you can see in the picture is just there in order to give the...
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Forum: General Forum
19-01-2005, 04:40
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Replies: 38
Views: 12,249
Re: Is allowing a practice robot good for FIRST?
Many people have already expounded on the educational benefits to the teams who employ practice robots. Also the concerns of less funded teams who don't want to give away any more ground to the big...
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Forum: General Forum
23-04-2004, 05:55
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Replies: 139
Views: 20,326
Re: The Regional Wars
Of course I know this idea won't happen but anyway... I think the best way to pick the regional teams would be to nominate a captain for each region and let them pick a lineup. Sure deserving teams...
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Forum: Programming
19-04-2004, 22:08
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,732
Re: Angle from X,Y
The result of that equation gives you the cos of the angle between the vectors. That is cos(x). You would still need to use an inverse trig function to find the angle (x).
I'm going to have to...
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Forum: General Forum
19-04-2004, 19:19
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Replies: 61
Views: 18,415
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Forum: General Forum
27-05-2003, 16:04
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,091
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Forum: Off-Season Events
20-05-2003, 18:34
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Replies: 20
Views: 3,620
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Forum: Thanks and/or Congrats
01-05-2002, 19:19
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,086
Thank YOU!
I'd definitely like to thank 121 for giving us the opportunity to play in the finals by picking us. We made a good run at it. You were definitely a quality team with a quality robot. Also thanks...
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Forum: Championship Event
30-04-2002, 16:01
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Replies: 36
Views: 6,413
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Forum: Robot Showcase
15-04-2002, 22:45
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,950
about Lawrence Tech
While Lawrence Tech is indeed one of our sponsers support beyond provideing nonprofit and what amounts to a bank account they have been one of our less active sponsers. We always welcome new...
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Forum: General Forum
05-04-2002, 18:31
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Replies: 51
Views: 5,064
469
The official awards received by team 469:
Cleveland Regional Champions
Great Lakes Regional Champions
J&J Sportsmanship Award at Great Lakes Regional
And from other teams:
"The Hare...
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Forum: Regional Competitions
30-03-2002, 03:15
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Replies: 78
Views: 8,938
Goals Vs. Balls
It seems like that was the question at the beginning of the season, whether it was better to go for all three goals or one goal and stuff it full of balls. Now after 9/17 regionals have finished (3...
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