**FIRST EMAIL**/Important Championship Qualifying Information!

[Mark McLeod]

Greetings Teams:

If your team qualifies at a Regional Event to attend the Championship (CMP), please remember you still must register, via TIMS, in order to attend!

Please visit: http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc...nt.aspx?id=944 to see a full listing of the merit based qualifying criteria.

Registering for the CMP via TIMS

Please follow the process below:


* On the Monday following your event, login to TIMS https://my.usfirst.org/frc/tims/site.lasso after 9:00 am EST;
* Proceed to the "Event Registration" section, click on the "Go" link and then "Add Event" to register your team for the Championship accordingly;
* Pay by credit card online or make payment arrangements with Finance by calling 800-871-8326, ext. 450, 478 or 415. Payment by credit card or check must be received by Friday April 10th in order to compete.
* You must both register and make payment arrangements by 5:00 pm EST Tuesday following your event.

IMPORTANT - If you do not register by the Tuesday deadline, your team will once again become ineligible to register for the CMP (i.e., your spot will not be held past the Tuesday deadline!).

Bills of Lading to the CMP for Qualifying Teams

Shipping To the CMP:
Per the new shipping rules, FIRST will NOT be providing Shepard Exposition Services (SES) with FedEx Bills of Lading (or airbills) at Regional Events for CMP qualifying teams. Teams must ship their robot to CMP by either using one of their original two donated FedEx shipments or by making arrangements with Shepard to use their shipper.

Shipping Home from CMP
Teams will be given either a Bill of Lading or airbill at on-site CMP registration to ship their robot home.

Making CMP Hotel Reservations

Please go to the Steele Meetings website at https://www.e2mevents002.com/client/...?alias=FIRST09 to make your housing arrangements.

IMPORTANT I: Each season there are teams who make CMP hotel arrangements in the hopes they will qualify at a regional event. Teams that do this do so at their own risk. You will be responsible for any cancellation fees incurred per Steele Meetings Policies. If you have any questions, please contact Steele Meetings directly for any further clarification at: first@steelemeetings.com.

IMPORTANT II: DO NOT ship your robot to the CMP event unless you qualify at your regional event! Teams not registered for the Championship will be responsible to pay all costs associated with shipping their robot to and from the Championship. Only teams officially registered to attend the Championship will have their shipments home covered by the FedEx Donation


Go Teams!