2016 DUEL INFO BLAST #6
Duel on the Delaware
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Salem Community College- Davidow Hall, Carneys Point, NJ
Co-hosted by MOE 365 and LuNaTeCs 316
FOCUS OF THIS COMMUNICATION – Cell Phone Contact Info – What to Bring – Book Drive – GoBabyGo Toy “Ride-On” Car Donations – Food Pre-order Form
SPECIAL NOTES:
- Keep collecting books for book drive
- Food pre-order form is attached. Please follow instructions on form to pre-order.
- Duel Team Information Packet is attached. Tentative practice schedule is included.
- Bake Sale Table and Concessions will be available for food purchases. These are team fundraisers.
- The Duel will be webcast. Information will be shared next week.
CELL PHONE NUMBERS FOR TEAM CONTACT THE MORNING OF THE EVENT
Please take a minute to have a key mentor, who will be attending the event, complete this brief Google Form to provide your cell phone contact info the morning of the event. By doing this, you help the organizers confirm your attendance early the morning of the event. This is critical to developing the qualification match schedule and getting it to teams as soon as possible. Please complete this now at Thanks!
Link for Contact Info:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1AQe...T1gZz4/prefill
Please complete so that we can quickly confirm your team's attendance and develop a qualification match schedule the morning of the event. Thanks!
STRONGHOLD DEFENSES WE WILL USE AT THE DUEL
The MAR equipment committee is recommending that the fall off-season events not make use of the Portcullis and Drawbridge defenses. Additionally, they have asked events to select a set of defenses that will be left in place on the field throughout the event. With this in mind, the Duel Planning team needs your input. Based on this request, we have recently conducted a survey and are basing the survey results on the defenses which we will use for the Duel, which will be stationary for the event. We currently do not have the specific locations for each defense determined and may not until the event day.
The four defenses (in addition to the Low Bar, which will be in the same position it has for official Stronghold competitions) selected are…
- Rock Wall
- Rough Terrain
- Moat
- Cheval de Frise
WHAT TO BRING TO THE EVENT
Teams should plan to bring the following to the event:
- Safety glasses for ALL team members (we have a limited number of loaners – individuals MUST wear safety glasses in the pit area)
- One multi-plug power strip (due to electrical limitations, teams will only be able to use ONE power strip)
- Used books to donate to the Duel Book Drive
- Used & working toy “ride-on” car(s) for donation to GoBabyGo! Program
- Gracious Professionalism
- Energy & Spirit!
(1) CHARITY BOOK DRIVE – Success Won’t Wait
- Continue to collect your used books for our charity book drive competition.
- Teams bringing the most books by weight will receive a trophy and special awards.
- While many types of books are accepted, the organization is asking for CHILDREN’S BOOKS in particular-
- Please donate books that are organized in boxes that are easily/safely moved by one person. Please don’t leave books in bags or very large containers. Also, please do not put books in bins/boxes that you want back.
- Books are donated to Success Won’t Wait, a literacy non-profit. The mission is to encourage reading, especially for those in need and children.
- ** PLEASE CONSIDER HAVING YOUR TEAM COLLECT BOOKS FOR THIS WORTHWHILE CAUSE **
- For more information about Success Won’t Wait, check out
http://www.successwontwait.org
(2) TOY “RIDE-ON” CAR DONATION – GoBabyGo!
http://sites.udel.edu/gobabygo/
- Donate a toy “ride-on” car (electric cars that are electrically powered for children from 2-10 yrs old) to GoBabyGo, a program whose goal is to provide mobility solutions to children who have mobility challenges. Cars should be working and used (we will accept new cars also).
(3) MIKE WADE MEMORIAL “DUEL MASTER VOLUNTEER” AWARD
Mike Wade worked for NASA Goddard and single-handedly is responsible for the creation of a number of off-season events on the East Coast. Please honor his memory by submitted the great things that a mentor or volunteer is doing for your team.
- Nominations are closed.
- The following teams have submitted a nomination:
o 365
o 1089
o 1626
o 2607
o 4575
o 5401
(4) CHAIRMANS AWARD WARM-UP PRACTICE *4th year*
Our purpose for doing this is to provide teams another opportunity to practice with real judges (we expect to have at least one of the judges be an experienced Chairman’s Award judge) and to provide some helpful feedback for teams as they prepare for the 2017 competition season.
Teams signed up for Mock Chairman’s
o 321
o 1626
o 3941
(5) DUEL SPECIAL AWARDS
The following judged awards will be presented at the event:
- Gracious Professionalism (teams will vote via a form)
- Outreach
- Spirit
- Creativity
(6) GENERAL INFO & AGENDA
- Doors will open at 7am
- Robot drop off is possible on Friday, October 21st as long as it is no later than 5:00pm. Please let us know beforehand if you plan to drop a bot off early
- If any mentors/parents/alum from your teams are interested in volunteering for the Duel, please let me know.
- Travel details available at
http://moe365.org/duel2016/traveldetails.php
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Tentative Agenda
Time Activity
7:00AM Doors / Pits open
7:45-8:45AM Practice Rounds
8:45 AM Opening Ceremonies
- Featured Speakers
- National Anthem – Oak Singers
- Game/Scoring Review
9:30AM-12:30PM Qualifying Rounds (~5/team)
10:00AM Chairman’s Award Reviews – Classroom 117
12:30PM Alliance Selection / LUNCH
1:15PM Awards
- Michael Wade Duel Master Volunteer
- “Success Won’t Wait” Book Drive
1:30PM-4:30PM Elimination Rounds
4:30PM Awards/Closing Ceremonies
- GP, Outreach, Creativity, Spirit
- Duel Finalists
- Duel Champions
5:00PM Field Breakdown
Special Events: FIRST Tech Challenge Play Day and workshops (all day)
Book collection for “Success Won’t Wait”
New Castle County Delaware Bomb Disposal Robot Demonstration (around noon outside of Davidow Hall and inside Field House)
(7) FIRST TECH CHALLENGE “VELOCITY VORTEX” PLAY-DAY/SCRIMMAGE/WORKSHOPS
- “Velocity Vortex” field will be available for registered teams to use.
- FTC workshops will be available to attending teams.
- Registration limited. Contact Joe Perrotto at
JosephPerrotto@comcast.net for more information
(8) REGISTERED TEAMS (we currently have a full field of 34 teams)
All teams are paid (thank you!). At this time, if you pull out of the event, we cannot refund your registration fee.
If any team CANNOT attend, please let me know as soon as possible. Team 203 is still on our waitlist.
Team # Team Name
87 RV Robotics
225 TechFire
271 Mechanical Marauders
303 The T.E.S.T. Team
316 Lunatecs
321 RoboLancers
341 Miss Daisy
365 Miracle Workerz/MOE
369 High voltage
433 Firebirds
533 PSIcotics
816 Anomaly
1089 Team Mercury
1111 The Power Hawks Robotics Team
1218 Vulcan Robotics
1626 Falcon Robotics
1640 Sab-BOT-age
1647 Iron Devils
1719 The Umbrella Organization
2180 Zero Gravity
2539 Krypton Cougars
2607 Fighting Robovikings
3941 Absolute Zero Electricity
4342 Demon Robotics
4505 McDonogh Robotics
4575 The Tin Mints
4954 Palindrome Robotics
5113 Combustible Lemons
5310 Eagles Apex
5401 The Fightin' Robotic Owls
5420 Velocity
5457 Falcobots
5938 Razor Steel Robotics
6226 Blue Devils
WAITLIST
203 Campbells Soup / Camden County Technical Schools
Get ready to Duel!
John