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Re: [FTC]: FTC Off-season events
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Originally Posted by Andrew Schuetze
... So I have decided to use VEX kits and I am purchasing a VEX field and the elements to play Bridge Battle. I am planning on attending the FTC affiliate partner meeting in June in hopes of hosting a tournament in the upcoming season....
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Everything you wrote sounds great, but there might be one fly in the ointment. It's not clear in your message that you know that FTC will not use Vex kits next season.
The next FTC season will not use the Vex kits, except for some possible resuse of Vex metal parts. If you become an FTC AP, you will be hosting an FTC event(s) that will use a kit comprised of LEGO Mindstorm parts and metal very similar to that sold by LynxMotion, plus some motors, gears and other parts not from eithe rof those companies.
Separately from whether you become an FTC AP and from whether or not you organize an FTC tournament(s); you can host tournaments using Vex machines and whatever rules IFI/Vex announce for their competition that is separate from FTC (Bridge Battle is the IFI game this school year, while Quad Quandary is the FTC game this school year).
Does that help? Were you aware of this dichotomy?
Blake
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