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Not Pre-Qualified for Nationals? Then what's your team's plan to compete in Atlanta?

Hey Teams,

Have all you 'Tier One' teams been thinking about strategies to insure making it to the National Championship in Atlanta? Or are you just hoping for the best? What kinds of things do the teams out there do to increase their chances?

My team worked their fingers to the bone for the past 6 months earning the money to go to a second regional, plus to earn money for the control systems for a second robot.

What else can be done? What are your plans?
[I only mention the money earned as a means to an end - a second regional means one more chance to advance to Nationals. We hope to build a tough, reliable robot that will be a good competitor and alliance member. ]
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Nothing has changed too much on our team. We only earned 4 points last year in awards because we couldn't afford a second regional and thus only got 2 judges awards. Unless we happen to get lucky and recieve an engineering award or chairman's... or somehow by some lucky chance get paired up with the winning alliance, we won't be going, so for the most part our team isn't even attempting to get funding for nationals, because we won't know till up to a few weeks before, and that's too short of a notice to go anyhow probably.

A few members of our team are preparing to go individually I believe though. But as a team, we won't know if we qualify till right before nationals which just isn't enough time for us to plan.
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Really, our best hope is to go for the Chairman’s Award. Yes, we may go via winning a regional but mostly likely even if the team does go, it'd be a skeleton crew. (And I know personally I have finals starting Friday of Championships ) We're under the gun here to raise a lot of money to cover various costs as it is. Chairman’s however would boost the recognition of Northeastern's College of Engineering here in the World of FIRST. And maybe more of you HS students will come to Northeastern and do FIRST (there is a nice scholarship too...). Thus we're working towards winning it in like three years or so. We have a plan...well kind of.... we're only in phase one of its design process!
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Unread 01-11-2003, 23:49
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Um, the whole teir system deal doesn't really come into play unless there are more teams who want to go than can be accomidated. And when you think about it, who really wants to spend a couple thousand dollars to go to Georgia?

So I don't think anyone has to worry.
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Um, the whole teir system deal doesn't really come into play unless there are more teams who want to go than can be accomidated. And when you think about it, who really wants to spend a couple thousand dollars to go to Georgia?

So I don't think anyone has to worry.
ah.........I definitely want to go... and a couple of HUNDRED students I know too!
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My team is nuts. They have the chance for Atlanta but hope to go to Phoenix instead. (Atlanta does run us a little more in travel and it is on the day of our Senior Prom; but who cares?)
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Um, the whole teir system deal doesn't really come into play unless there are more teams who want to go than can be accomidated. And when you think about it, who really wants to spend a couple thousand dollars to go to Georgia?

So I don't think anyone has to worry.
Uh youve got to be kidding me, right? who wants to spend a couple thousand dollars to go to Georgia? at least half the teams in FIRST I'd say. Have you not seen any of the discussion regarding how teams want more spots opened? Was nats filled up last year? yes. Was it filled the year before? yes.

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RE: Zach, Rich, and Cory-

Maybe it’s just me, but I think Zach’s post could have been replied to a little more civilly. I think it’s a little presumptuous to think that every team in FIRST wants to compete at the Championship Event. I don't want to compete in Atlanta this year (although I may be persuaded otherwise if we qualified and somehow found the cash on a tree). I agree with Zach in the sense that I don’t believe that it’s worth the extra travel cost to my team to compete in Atlanta versus competing at a second event like Sacramento. But people who think like this are definitely the minority in FIRST. Most people want to compete at the Championship Event either for the allure of it all or just to see ~300 other teams all in the same place. There’s absolutely nothing like it, but I don’t mind having my team wait a couple years in between visits to save some cash.

Getting back to the topic of this thread…

Being a tier #2 team, and therefore not having much of a shot at getting an open spot, I would say that my team’s chances of qualifying for the Championship Event lie in our team’s robot design next season being worthy of a judged award at Sacramento and Silicon Valley, in addition to being lucky and either being a finalist or winning one of those events. I’m pretty confident in my team’s ability to win judged awards (we’ve won Leadership in Control at SVR the past two years). The rest is up to chance. Even if we qualify, we still have the daunting task of raising $4,000 for registration, plus last minute travel costs. We’ll see how things go.
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Start throwing up ideas for strong drivetrain designs, keep training rookie drivers, train pit crew and scouts, prepare for competition..What else can you do? We also do our best to start new teams (50 by '05 in NJ) and to work with the Regional Committee on helping rookies through Project RINOS and to spread FIRST and inspire students every chance we get.
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Our plan? Try our best to win during competition, hopefully at the Detroit Regional.

Since we aren't planning on going to Nationals, we've decided to go to a second regional - the South Carolina one. Bit out of the way for a Michigan team, but our goal is to have fun down there. Knowing our team, it shouldn't be too hard.
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it is on the day of our Senior Prom; but who cares?)
I skipped Championship to go to prom with a friend of mine last season (Pam you're awesome!) It was fun and worth it.

Now back on topic, some teams, you have to keep in mind th costs of going. Part of the new criteria I think is really to motivate teams to excell in areas regard Chairman's and the Engineering Excellence (do I have that right...sorry i just got up!) awards. And also in part of that, maybe you'll have a better shot at winning a regional and getting to go. But if you diidn't budget for expenses to go to Championship, where are you going to get the money from? Like I know my team, we'll most likely just send a skeleton crew of the absolutely needed people for a competition, that is if we actually shell out the money for it.
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Being a tier #2 team, and therefore not having much of a shot at getting an open spot, I would say that my team’s chances of qualifying for the Championship Event lie in our team’s robot design next season being worthy of a judged award at Sacramento and Silicon Valley, in addition to being lucky and either being a finalist or winning one of those events. I’m pretty confident in my team’s ability to win judged awards (we’ve won Leadership in Control at SVR the past two years). The rest is up to chance. Even if we qualify, we still have the daunting task of raising $4,000 for registration, plus last minute travel costs. We’ll see how things go.
Um...as a Tier 2 team it looks right now that you have a pretty good chance of getting in now. There are 95 spots left at the CE and Tier 2 gets to register in 3 days (Nov. 5th). Our team is working hard to get there, being in Tier 1.
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We'll be going to THREE regionals, including Detroit and all the way down to Virginia. Hopefully this gives us a good chance to qualify.
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Being a tier #2 team, and therefore not having much of a shot at getting an open spot, I would say that my team’s chances of qualifying for the Championship Event lie in our team’s robot design next season being worthy of a judged award at Sacramento and Silicon Valley, in addition to being lucky and either being a finalist or winning one of those events. I’m pretty confident in my team’s ability to win judged awards (we’ve won Leadership in Control at SVR the past two years). The rest is up to chance. Even if we qualify, we still have the daunting task of raising $4,000 for registration, plus last minute travel costs. We’ll see how things go.

Bill:

Unless I interpreted the new eligibility criteria incorrectly, last year's criteria of qualifying for the current year championship by winning a judged award and being a regional finalist are no longer in effect. Qualifying based upon the accumulation of 5 points during the 2003 season is possible for 2004 (that's how Team 48 qualified), but the points system will be discontinued for the 2005 season and beyond.

Currently, here are the only merit-based ways you can qualify for the 2004 Championship Event during the 2004 season.

From http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2004/cmp_elig.htm:

Merit Based Qualifying Teams from the 2004 season

Regional Chairman's Award winners (1 per Regional)
Regional Engineering Inspiration Award winners (1 per Regional)
Regional Rookie All-Star Award winners (1 per Regional)
Regional Champions (3 per Regional)

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