Determining Divisions at Nationals

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Posted by Mike Aubry at 03/25/2001 11:32 AM EST


Engineer on team #47, Chiefs, from Pontiac Central and Delphi .



Heres the scoop - The 4 divisions will be determined by taking all the teams that are going and counting them off 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4, until everyone has a number! So if you want to know who will be in your division check out the team roster going to nationals and start counting!

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Posted by s_alaniz at 03/25/2001 1:41 PM EST


Other on team #57 from Houston Regional co-ordinator.


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Posted by Mike Aubry on 03/25/2001 11:32 AM EST:



Actually, I thought the rules said that the first seeds
at the regionals would be counted off in the 1,2,3,4,
style first and then everyone else would follow...I'll
recheck but that was supposedly the way they were going
to proceed.


by taking all the teams that are going and counting
them off 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4, until everyone has a number!
So if you want to know who will be in your division
check out the team roster going to nationals and start
counting!

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Posted by Nate Smith at 03/26/2001 7:22 AM EST


Other on team #66, Frostbite, from Willow Run High School and GM Powertrain.


In Reply to: Re: Determining Divisions at Nationals
Posted by s_alaniz on 03/25/2001 1:41 PM EST:



Rule T6: ...teams will be evenly distributed into four "divisions"...

Other than that word "evenly," it doesn't really say anywhere how they're going to do it...

Nate

: Actually, I thought the rules said that the first seeds
: at the regionals would be counted off in the 1,2,3,4,
: style first and then everyone else would follow...I'll
: recheck but that was supposedly the way they were going
: to proceed.

:
: by taking all the teams that are going and counting
: them off 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4, until everyone has a number!
: So if you want to know who will be in your division
: check out the team roster going to nationals and start
: counting!

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Posted by Joe Ross at 03/25/2001 2:51 PM EST


Engineer on team #330, Beach Bot, from Hope Chapel Academy and NASA/JPL , J&F Machine, and Raytheon.


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Posted by Mike Aubry on 03/25/2001 11:32 AM EST:



I beleive that someone said the divisions weren't going to be made untill thursday night, when they know who didn't show up.

So anything that you do now is just wasted time and effort.

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Posted by Ken Leung at 03/25/2001 5:48 PM EST


Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School.


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Posted by Mike Aubry on 03/25/2001 11:32 AM EST:



I think the most effective way of spreading teams into each division is to have each team send a represent to an open area, then FIRST will tell all the people to "randomly walk around" for 10 minutes while "blind-folded". Then, they will just stand still until a FIRST person call out 1,2,3,4 and grab a person randomly as they call each number out.

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Posted by JVN at 03/25/2001 5:56 PM EST


Student on team #250, Dynamos - Capital District Robotics Team, from Shenendehowa High School and General Electric and Verizon.


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Posted by Ken Leung on 03/25/2001 5:48 PM EST:



: I think the most effective way of spreading teams into each division is to have each team send a represent to an open area, then FIRST will tell all the people to "randomly walk around" for 10 minutes while "blind-folded". Then, they will just stand still until a FIRST person call out 1,2,3,4 and grab a person randomly as they call each number out.

COOL!
No kidding, I think Ken is onto something!

I wanna be our representative, just imagine hundreds of blindfolded team captains wandering around in a big field being randomly grabbed by FIRST staff...

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Posted by nick237 at 03/26/2001 9:22 PM EST


Engineer on team #237, sie h2o bots, from Watertown high school ct and sieman co.


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Posted by Ken Leung on 03/25/2001 5:48 PM EST:



Thats not a bad idea Ken but what if they blidfolded every one and gave them base ball bats and the last four standing are in the finals, the spare team could be the first representive that gets the most amount of hits. If there is a draw then they could have a hit off game........ naaaah
How many days to go?????
nick237


: I think the most effective way of spreading teams into each division is to have each team send a represent to an open area, then FIRST will tell all the people to "randomly walk around" for 10 minutes while "blind-folded". Then, they will just stand still until a FIRST person call out 1,2,3,4 and grab a person randomly as they call each number out.

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Posted by Kevin Sevcik at 03/26/2001 11:53 PM EST


Other on team #57, Leopards, from BT Washington and the High School for Engineering Professions and Exxon, Kellog Brown & Root, Powell Electrical.


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Posted by Mike Aubry on 03/25/2001 11:32 AM EST:



Actually, what they'd probably do, is put the teams into an excel spreadsheet, assign each a random number, and sort them based on the number. then you just divide the list into fourths. Just my thoughts, though.