[Kevin Kolodziej]

Greetings Teams!

The 2006 Fall WIRED Robotics Challenge is now only a month away and will be here before you know it! The League Nights have been a huge success and we hope to expand the league to several locations next year so that more teams may take advantage of the extra play time and information sessions.

Team leaders, please pass on following information to your teams.

If you will be competing in the December 3rd tournament, please register ASAP at the WIRED website (www.wirobotics.org/vex). We currently have 20 teams registered and will accept registrations until 11:59PM Tuesday, November 28th. We need time to print event programs and materials for teams, as well as generate the match schedules, so we cannot accept any registrations after that time. This means no onsite registration (you may pay at the event, however we really want you to pay in advance).

As you register (and teams that have already registered), be sure to completely fill out the student information sections.

If you have not been regularly checking the WIRED website, go there immediately and check out the 4 updates to the rule book. League Night matches have produced some situations that had not been expected and the updates address those situations and update several key rules to the game.

Also on the website is a link to the official photo gallery from League Nights. Teams that have been participating – if you would like some of your own pictures included in the gallery, let me know and I will get you the login details to do so.

For the December 3rd tournament, details and the agenda will be released shortly. Doors will open at 8:00am and we will be finishing around 5:30-6:00pm. The parking situation will be clarified shortly as well, but know that because it is a Sunday, there is free street parking in the area where you can find it. I am working on getting MSOE to reserve space on the campus lots for visitors, but that is not confirmed yet.

When identifying your robots with names, numbers, and colors, remember that these can be any material and can be attached by any means. The numbers you will be using will be the last two numbers of your registration number (i.e. V12345 = Team #45)

The awards list is now available at the WIRED website.

Finally, we are still in need of some volunteers for Team Queuing (mentors or parents please), Crystal Control (mentors or parents please), and Reset (students of any age). Please have anyone that is interested contact me (kevin.kolodziej@gmail.com) with their name, email, phone number, t-shirt size, and association (school, business, team #, etc.).

Thanks, see you in December!