2016 Finger Lakes Regional

[dkavanagh]

I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of familiar teams there! https://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2016nyro
Many have already done well at other regionals, so this should be a very exciting competition!

Best of luck to all the teams!

[esquared]

Gonna miss this...

[dkavanagh]

Bummer. Your energy last year helped make it great!

[Josh Goodman]

Originally Posted by dkavanagh

Bummer. Your energy last year helped make it great!

This year's emcee is new to FLR but fresh from Tech Valley this past weekend and also trained by Eric himself! But yes, he will be missed. #babies

[Dominick Ferone]

I think a crazy stat for this event is 20% of teams competing this weekend already have bids to Champs.

[suttonrc]

Originally Posted by Dominick Ferone

I think a crazy stat for this event is 20% of teams competing this weekend already have bids to Champs.

I see that 5030 won at NYC and that 1559 & 1126 won at Pittsburgh. (Congrats to all) As that is far below 20% of the teams attending, what other teams already have a bid to Champs?

[Dominick Ferone]

Originally Posted by suttonrc

I see that 5030 won at NYC and that 1559 & 1126 won at Pittsburgh. (Congrats to all) As that is far below 20% of the teams attending, what other teams already have a bid to Champs?

3015- chairmans
5254 wild card
1665- wild card
20- sustaining
191-hof
1511-chairmans
5030-regional win
1126-regional win
1559-regional win
2383-wild card

[Maximillian]

Originally Posted by suttonrc

I see that 5030 won at NYC and that 1559 & 1126 won at Pittsburgh. (Congrats to all) As that is far below 20% of the teams attending, what other teams already have a bid to Champs?

• 5030, 1559, and 1126 for winning an event
• 5254, 1665, and 2383 for getting a wildcard
• 20 for being original sustaining
• 191 for being HOF
• 1511 and 3015 for winning chairmans

[Kyle Reese]

Originally Posted by suttonrc

I see that 5030 won at NYC and that 1559 & 1126 won at Pittsburgh. (Congrats to all) As that is far below 20% of the teams attending, what other teams already have a bid to Champs?

Teams 20 and 191 are both Legacy teams and get a trip to champs every year. 1511 and 3015 won chairman's at GTCR and Greater Pittsburgh respectively, 1665 and 5254 both got wildcards at Tech Valley, and 2383 got a wildcard at Orlando. That totals at 10/49, or a whopping 20%. Quite the impressive regional stat. Looking forward to competing this weekend!

Edit: Double Sniped

[KosmicKhaos]

Once again, FLR is posing to be one of the most competitive regional with over 20% of teams attending already qualifying for champs.

Does anyone know of other regionals this week, or later in the season that have >20% of teams pre qualified going into the event?

[Alex Cormier]

Woot woot.

[dkavanagh]

When one of the regional finalists in NYC already had a bid, it trickled down to our alliance captain team, who got to go. Is there a similar trickle down here, say if 2 qualifying teams are on the winning alliance (and that could certainly happen), do the 1st 2 teams on the runner-up alliance get bids?

[Dominick Ferone]

Originally Posted by dkavanagh

When one of the regional finalists in NYC already had a bid, it trickled down to our alliance captain team, who got to go. Is there a similar trickle down here, say if 2 qualifying teams are on the winning alliance (and that could certainly happen), do the 1st 2 teams on the runner-up alliance get bids?

This is what happened at tech valley.
The finalist alliance all got bids.

359 was hall of fame so its bid went to 5254
The next wild card(I forget what for but I'm assuming EI) have a bid to 229
229 won chairmans so that bid moved over to the back up not 1665.

It's actually cool that the backup not that came in and did help that alliance got a bid.

[LeelandS]

Originally Posted by dkavanagh

When one of the regional finalists in NYC already had a bid, it trickled down to our alliance captain team, who got to go. Is there a similar trickle down here, say if 2 qualifying teams are on the winning alliance (and that could certainly happen), do the 1st 2 teams on the runner-up alliance get bids?

Last year,because 2/3 teams on the winning alliance won awards to qualify them for champs, and one team on the finalist alliance was already qualified, every team in the final round of FLR got a ticket to champs. With the high number of prequalified teams at FLR, will making it to the finals be all you need to qualify for champs again this year?

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by esquared

Gonna miss this...

Gonna miss you.