USF Robotics Invitational in Tampa

[BLCamp]

Team 79 Krunch and USF proudly present the University of South Florida Robotics Invitational in sunny Tampa, Florida. The size of our venue not only allows us to offer a great FRC off-season event, but also the FVC and FLL competitions as well. So kick off the new school year right and bring all your teams out to a great weekend of FIRST robotics!

Event Website:
http://www.roboticsboosters.com/offseasonevent

Date:
Friday and Saturday, September 28th and 29th

Location:
The SUN DOME!!!
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Avenue
Tampa, Florida 33620

Schedule of Events:
Friday
Sign-in and Pit set up Friday afternoon/evening
Tours of the USF Robotics Lab will be given Friday afternoon
A team social and barbeque Friday evening
Twilight practice matches Friday night
A Lock-In at the Sun Dome is available for FRC teams on Friday night

Saturday
Seeding matches begin early Saturday morning
Elimination matches Saturday afternoon
FVC and FLL competitions held Sat morning
FVC and FLL 2007 kickoff presentation Sat afternoon

Cost:
Registration (May 14th – July 31st) – $300
Late Registration (after July 31st) – $350

If you have any questions, email me at brian.camp@honeywell.com

Hope you see you all there!!!

[Nawaid Ladak]

here is my question, how does the invitational work.

i might be bringing up to THREE teams, im not confirming this, but i'll TRY

1402
1694
(New Semonile high School Team)

I'll talk to 945 as well

[Arefin Bari]

Originally Posted by FreedomForce

here is my question, how does the invitational work.

i might be bringing up to THREE teams

1402
1694
(New Semonile high School Team)

I'll talk to 945 as well

Do you mind making your question a bit more clear?

Brian has provided us with all the information needed for the Invitational (how to register, what is going to be happening, times/dates).

Oh also, Team 1402 doesn't exist anymore. Even if there are some members left from 1402, they don't have a robot from 2007, I would suggest asking veteran teams to let "1402" borrow practice bots and the same goes for your new school.

Please discuss about the offseason and let the committee know if your team will be able to make it after you discuss it with your team.

[Michelle Celio]

Originally Posted by FreedomForce

1694

Last time I checked Nawaid, 1694 was short some drive team members in ATL.
Keep in mind I'm a graduating senior and won't be able to help you out with that predicament any longer, also you are no longer able to do anything but coach, seeing as that you are graduating also. Please if you are looking to ask all these teams to participate make sure that they have fully working robots and a full drive team.

[bigbeezy]

1592 is definitely interested in attended. nothing better for rookie students and mentors to see how a real competition works and how much fun it is. Right now our new people have to wait until March to see an actual competition, and until then all they see is hard work of fund raising and building a robot. This is a great team booster opportunity.

How many teams are you planning on being able to attend the event?

P.S. We will have a full drive team/pit crew available to compete. I am going to be a senior next year (+ this is my third and hopefully forth year as base driver) and we will have a new arm oporator who was our back-up this past year, and our pit will include experienced/new students, alumni, and mentors. If anyone needs any help in the pit with anything we have plenty of people willing to help.

[Stephen Kowski]

hmmm....ill be on campus anyway.....can't wait to see this, let me know if i can be of any assistance brian

a good venue about the same size of the new arena they are building at UCF (at least seating wise) should be a good event

WOW!!! USF doing something with FIRST.....I'm excited

[KathieK]

Posted in the NEMO calendar of off-season events.

[BLCamp]

The registration form for the USF Robotics Invitational has been added to the Chief Delphi white paper section.

Here's a link, http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2002

Brian

[Nawaid Ladak]

where does the USF football beam play because they got West Virginia the same night as this event? (i'd love to go to that game)

[Matt_Kaplan1902]

Originally Posted by FreedomForce

where does the USF football beam play because they got West Virginia the same night as this event? (i'd love to go to that game)

They play over at Raymond James.

[Stephen Kowski]

I believe that USF Athletics provides free transportation to Raymond James Stadium and back to USF. If you have to drive it is approximately 15-30 minutes away from the campus.

tickets are available here:
http://www.gousfbulls.com//ViewArtic...&ATCLID=219259

wouldn't you rather go see the bulls for the 3rd year (or is it the 4th? i lose track) beat UCF though? Dan, Mike, Matt, George? any takers?

[wendymom]

wouldn't you rather go see the bulls for the 3rd year (or is it the 4th? i lose track) beat UCF though? Dan, Mike, Matt, George? any takers? [/quote]

PHHSSSS that games not till Oct. Ask NC what they think of UCF this year

[Dan Richardson]

Kowski your just jealous our unies are way more sexy and we have a stadium on campus.

[Stephen Kowski]

Originally Posted by Stud Man Dan

Kowski your just jealous our unies are way more sexy and we have a stadium on campus.

hahaha.....that is good.....trainface the mascot, and that stadium.....the high school metal bleachers are a lovely touch, try not to run into steel beam in that forest down there near the concessions

dear UCF, get a real stadium, stop letting your student government buy hummers with A&S fees....use it toward buying SEATS, don't get me wrong bleachers are very comfortable for the first 20 minutes of a 4 hour game.

dear dan, learn subtly, you aren't even making reference to FIRST anymore when you are dogging this awesome university....even with that stadium you still lost, "we put a scare into em and came close to winning," oooOOOooo.....

see ya in a week or so

[Winged Wonder]

I will SO be there... volunteering! ^.^ i'm very excited... i miss robotics a lot.

Originally Posted by Stephen Kowski

I believe that USF Athletics provides free transportation to Raymond James Stadium and back to USF. If you have to drive it is approximately 15-30 minutes away from the campus.

actually i think Student Government provides the buses to go to the stadium. be careful if you want to ride them... I think they're only for USF students (not 100% sure), and there was a nightmare last time because they got filled up really early and never came back to pick up more students, so a lot of people who didnt come extra early were stranded. :/

And if you drive there and you don't want to to pay the $10 for parking and you dont mind walking, theres free parking across the intersection at an office complex.