[Tom Ore]

We (525) are leaving in a few hours (2:30 AM) to head for Chicago and then the flight to Shanghai.

It looks like there will be about 26 Chinese teams there - mostly pre-rookies.

The international teams going are:

16 Mountain Home, Arkansas - Bomb Squad
148 Greenville, Texas - Robowranglers
341 Ambler, Pennsylvania - Miss Daisy
359 Waialua, Hawaii - Hawaiian Kids
525 Cedar Falls, Iowa - Swartdogs
694 New York, New York - StuyPulse
987 Las Vegas, Nevada - High Rollers
1538 San Diego, California - The Holy Cows
1595 Spokane, Washington - The Dragons
1690 Binyamina, HaZafon, Israel - Orbit
1772 Gravatai, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - The Brazilian Trail Blazers
2468 Austin, Texas - Team Appreciate
4334 Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Alberta Tech Alliance (ATA)
4613 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Barker Redbacks
5800 Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil - Magic Island Robotics

There will be 2 workshop days (the 6th and 7th), the international teams are going sightseeing for 2 days while the pre-rookie teams finish their robots, the scrimmage is the 10th through the 13th.

Some teams (at least 525, 1538 and 2468) are going sightseeing in Beijing before returning home.

This will be my 4th trip to China with 525 and I always have a great time!