Michigan State Championship

[Jaywalker1711]

Congratulations to over 100 teams that have qualified for the 2015 MSC! I cannot wait until competition, and I am sure that many of you are the same way.

I wanted to let all of you know that event information is now posted at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...5InSksJkc/edit
The pits are a very nice size at either 9x10 or 8x11, with no Chairman's award displays.


I look forward to seeing all of you compete!

Good luck!

[April_robo]

I am very excited to be volunteering even though my team won't be there!!!!!!!!!!! I love doing field reset for FiM. Can't wait to see all the teams at MSC!!!!

[Jaywalker1711]

Originally Posted by April_robo

I am very excited to be volunteering even though my team won't be there!!!!!!!!!!! I love doing field reset for FiM. Can't wait to see all the teams at MSC!!!!

Sorry that your team won't be there, but thank you for volunteering! We couldn't have a competition without you and many other fantastic volunteers!

[Christopher149]

857 is excited to be attending, but I'm a little disappointed that our sister team 2586 might not have made the cutoff. There are also several well-known teams that I'm surprised won't be at MSC (like 74 Team CHAOS and 51 The Wings of Fire).

But I can't wait to head to Grand Rapids on Wednesday!

[Hot_Copper_Frog]

Originally Posted by Christopher149

857 is excited to be attending, but I'm a little disappointed that our sister team 2586 might not have made the cutoff. There are also several well-known teams that I'm surprised won't be at MSC (like 74 Team CHAOS and 51 The Wings of Fire).

But I can't wait to head to Grand Rapids on Wednesday!

I'm definitely looking forward to catching up with 857 at MSC! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the Copper Bots as well. It would be great to see both Keweenaw teams in Grand Rapids.

[tindleroot]

Both Indiana and PNW Championships had roughly equal qualifying averages (though PNW had a larger amount of teams), but PNW had higher elims scores. I believe that this is because both districts had similar amounts of teams with a certain skill (aka the top 10% can score X, the next 10% can score Y, etc.) but PNW had the higher elims scores since there were more top-tier teams to choose from come alliance selections (77% of Indiana teams were in finals, while only 37.5% of PNW teams were in finals).

By this token, #1 seed in Michigan will be hovering around 170 average (probably higher since Michigan has some worldwide top tier teams - 1023 scored higher than this last weekend), and almost all of the teams will be over 100 average. The elims will be really high scores, though!

[GBK]

MSC is going to be a great time as always. Congratulations to all the teams that made it. 16 alliances in the playoff's is going to be crazy.
Cant wait to see and compete with all our friends from all over the state.

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by Hot_Copper_Frog

I'm definitely looking forward to catching up with 857 at MSC! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the Copper Bots as well. It would be great to see both Keweenaw teams in Grand Rapids.

>both Keweenaw teams

But Megan, we also have a third team this year in Lake Linden-Hubbell (5486)! (hopefully we can keep the team this time , and not pull a 3771 or 4363)

[Hot_Copper_Frog]

Originally Posted by Christopher149

>both Keweenaw teams

But Megan, we also have a third team this year in Lake Linden-Hubbell (5486)! (hopefully we can keep the team this time , and not pull a 3771 or 4363)

That's so exciting!! I'm excited to hear more about it this weekend.

[Jaywalker1711]

Pit assignments are up!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-q...VxQjd0VUU/view

[Christopher149]

And here's the field layout (literally)!

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/41923

[Wayne TenBrink]

With 16 alliances, what is the format for the first round of playoffs? Will there be a complete "Eighth-finals" round with the top 8 alliances moving on to a traditional "Quarter-finals" round, or will the top 4 alliances move straight to the Semi-finals? Perhaps something different?

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by Wayne TenBrink

With 16 alliances, what is the format for the first round of playoffs? Will there be a complete "Eighth-finals" round with the top 8 alliances moving on to a traditional "Quarter-finals" round, or will the top 4 alliances move straight to the Semi-finals? Perhaps something different?

It's spelled out in the latest team update but basically yes, there will be 2-match "octofinals." 8 alliances with advance and from there it will be a regular tournament.

[ThunderousPrime]

Originally Posted by Jaywalker1711

The pits are a very nice size at either 9x10 or 8x11, with no Chairman's award displays.

What is meant by "no Chairman's displays?"

[Aaron (Awe-Sum)]

Team 4961 is very excited to have qualified, and are looking forward to competing!