3 is the number and the number shall be 3...

[Joe Johnson]

...thou shalt not go to 4 Competitions, 5 is right out!

I have heard that teams that are signed up for more than 3 competitions (not Chief Delphi, by the way, though I will admit that we would LIKE to go to more, but we just can't) are being asked which one(s) they are dropping.

Is this the case? True, not true?

Anybody with the inside scoop, spill your guts ;-)

Joe J.

[Patrick Wang]

Actually for us it would be two.

I think I would speak for many teams where the financial situation this year does not accomodate for three competitions this year.

[Brian C]

Joe,

My son is a freshman at WPI this year.

He called me last Sunday night to say that he had received an E-mail from the team and that they had been requested (read: told) by FIRST to drop one of the 4 events they were signed up for. This was to apply to any other teams who had also registered for 4 or more events. (more? jeez what a schedule!!)

The RedJammers are set for 3 in '02.

KSC - Long Island - Toronto

Robots up and down the Eastern Seaboard

[ColleenShaver]

Rumors true-

WPI was scheduled to attend Virginia, Silicon Valley, UTC, and the Championship..

Our team leader was emailed a while back and asked "if you had to opt-out of one regional, which one would it be?" It was decided to we'd drop UTC and last week FIRST asked us to do so, due to the fact that there were 4 or 5 New England teams that hadn't gotten into any competition..

It makes our schedule easier, but harder for us to bring more students to competitions..

I think that it may depend on the status of teams for certain regionals whether people are asked to drop them or not..

Ah well.. it's almost kickoff time .. just 3 more weeks of term to get through ;-)

[Katie Reynolds]

Just as a general note, the Build starts in 36 days!!!!!!!




- Katie

[Ed Sparks]

We were asked to drop one of our regionals.......

We gave up KSC .....

we are going to the Buckeye Regional, Motorola Regional and Nationals...i think that was decided as final...but i am not certain at this point...clark probably can confirm this

[David Kelly]

we're planning on going to Buckeye, Chicago, and Nats. but we're having hard enough trouble getting enough money to pay for our 1st entry fee not just 3. lets hope we find some $$CASHMONEY$$

[Jeff Waegelin]

Originally posted by D.J. Fluck
we are going to the Buckeye Regional, Motorola Regional and Nationals

Cool! That's where we'll be, too (except nats

[Clark Gilbert]

Yes DJ.... Those are the 3 competitions we are going to

[Matt Ryan]

Our team is only going to one competition (UTC).

[Jestin McCarthy]

Originally posted by Matt Ryan
Our team is only going to one competition (UTC).

I hear ya bro. But there is still hope for chaos at nat's. there is always hope. NEVER FORGET THAT!!!!!

[Matt Ryan]

Originally posted by Jestin McCarthy



I hear ya bro. But there is still hope for chaos at nat's. there is always hope. NEVER FORGET THAT!!!!!

Our team also has no chance of going to nationals.

Doesn't mean we're not going to try to build a kick-butt bot though !

[Elgin Clock]

Originally posted by Ed Sparks
We were asked to drop one of our regionals.......

We gave up KSC .....

Hold the phone.....I hope this was a request and not an order. There is nothing on the FIRST website that limits the number of regionals you can go to is there? I think if a team had enough tact it would not go overboard on the number of regionals but if a team decided to go to as many regionals as they wanted to there shouldn't be a problem.

[Ed Sparks]

It was manditory..... We didn't want to. FIRST says that there is now a 3 event cap on ALL teams ..... and that it may go down to 2.