Game Predictions:
We predict that the district events will potentially be played on a field, possibly in a high school gymnasium somewhere. Further than that, it's all just guesses.
Thoughts on Teams:
I agree with the lists here already as teams to look out for. As a whole, the level of competitiveness of Indiana teams had increased quite a bit between the 2015 season and the 2016 season, so I would look out for a similar increase between 2016 to 2017 for this year.
How 5188 has been doing:
For those aware, 5188 has gone through a huge overhaul between the 2016 Season and the 2017 one. For one, one of our longtime (if you can say that on a team that's only been around for 4 years) mentors moved on from the team last year mid season. This had led to a lot of scrambling, and our 2016 season and robot had been impacted from that.
This offseason has been a huge effort in trying to figure out what direction we wanted our team to go, and figuring out a couple school and funds problems along the way. I'm proud to say that I believe 5188 has figured out many of these issues with an almost entirely new mentor base, and I think we will be in good shape for the 2017 season. I personally believe that 5188 will be in Huntington in early April and we look forward to seeing all of Indiana's team's here in the upcoming months.