Championship 2015: 8 Divisions, 600 Teams

[Hallry]

Confirmed by Frank during the Founder's Reception broadcast tonight:

• 600 Teams
• 8 Divisions
• 75 teams per field
• 2 fields for Einstein
• Wait-list reopens at noon on Monday.

Thoughts?

[orangemoore]

Frank Announced tonight:

There will be 600 teams at the Championships

They will be playing on 8 fields

Einstein will have 8 alliances on from each division

There will be 2 fields for Einstein this year.

Thoughts?

[dodar]

Real or Troll Thread?

[AquaMorph]

Originally Posted by dodar

Real or Troll Thread?

It was just announced by Frank.

[Jared Russell]

Real.

http://www.streamingmeeting.com/webc...IRST_Founders/

Scroll to 2:45:45

[dodar]

Did they announce names?

[orangemoore]

Originally Posted by dodar

Did they announce names?

Nope.

[GaryVoshol]

threads merged

[Herbblood]

This will be very interesting
I'm curious as to how they plan to fit all of the fields.....

[AquaMorph]

They also said about 1000 match played. With an alliance of 3 teams that is 10 matches per team. With 4 teams it increases to 13.33. It is interesting that the 3 works out to a perfect integer. Maybe that means alliances are staying to 3 per team this year but this is all speculation with estimated numbers.

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by AquaMorph

They also said about 1000 match played. With an alliance of 3 teams that is 10 matches per team. With 4 teams it increases to 13.33. It is interesting that the 3 works out to a perfect integer. Maybe that means alliances are staying to 3 per team this year but this is all speculation with estimated numbers.

As per the administrative manual, the total number of teams on the field at once is staying to 6, so either we're staying 3v3 or its going to 2v2v2 or 6v0. Due to the AndyMark field its likely two alliances, so 3v3 is almost certain *Knocks on wood*

Originally Posted by Landonh12

I doubt they would use ten fields. I'm seeing them just reusing two of the regular division fields for Einstein.

There is a lot of space in that dome, I doubt there would be an un-solvable issue with fitting 10. Remember, the Dome and its attached convention center is all for FRC now, not all four FIRST programs. If needed they could easily push all non-field activities/items into the adjacent convention center, leaving the entire dome for purely fields.

I can't remember where, but some FIRST high employee (maybe a past president) mentioned that they didn't want to reuse another field for Einstein, because in that a big percentage of teams would get to play on the Einstein field while others did not, and also the Einstein fields wouldn't be "pristine" as they are currently.


As for names, I'd assume they'd keep the current four, so it means we need four more extremely influential scientistst. Tesla has got to be one. Other than that, possibly Pasteur (like pasteurizing liquids), Darwin, Bernoulli, Maxwell, or Edison. Maybe Faraday also. For the younger crowd, possibly one for Hawking or Goodall?


Oh yeah, and having Einstein quarter-finals is the coolest thing ever.

[Koko Ed]

Outside of worrying about where exactly they're gonna fit these eight plus fields I'm just absolutely geeking out on how amazing Saturday is gonna be.
What happens on Einstein this year will easily surpass anything FIRST has seen even at IRI!
I can't wait!

[bduddy]

Two fields... Hopefully what they'll do with that is have matches running back-to-back, with setup taking place on the other field during each match. That would be fun to watch for sure! What I'm afraid they'll do is have just as many speeches as before, with matches taking place simultaneously on both fields in between...

I still maintain that 6 divisions and a round-robin would have been really fun to watch, but I suppose this is a much better way to fit 600 teams.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Originally Posted by bduddy

Two fields... Hopefully what they'll do with that is have matches running back-to-back, with setup taking place on the other field during each match. That would be fun to watch for sure! What I'm afraid they'll do is have just as many speeches as before, with matches taking place simultaneously on both fields in between...

My understanding of the preliminary schedule is that the speeches happen consecutively from 6-7pm. Because they are spending the whole day (7-5) doing alliance selection/division elimination and championship matches.

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Jeanne Boyarsky

My understanding of the preliminary schedule is that the speeches happen consecutively from 6-7pm. Because they are spending the whole day (7-5) doing alliance selection/division elimination and championship matches.

Weird. Unfortunately, I foresee many people leaving before the speeches. Unless they do the final four of Einstein during them.