2011 Newton Division

[XaulZan11]

1732 is a last minute addition to Newton! Its been pretty cool to think your season is over for couple of weeks and then receive an email Friday, inviting us to the championship. Should be fun to play with some friends and make some new ones.

[Meredith Novak]

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

1732 is a last minute addition to Newton! Its been pretty cool to think your season is over for couple of weeks and then receive an email Friday, inviting us to the championship. Should be fun to play with some friends and make some new ones.

Yay!!!! So excited to play with you guys again!

See you in St. Louis!

[The Lucas]

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

1732 is a last minute addition to Newton! Its been pretty cool to think your season is over for couple of weeks and then receive an email Friday, inviting us to the championship. Should be fun to play with some friends and make some new ones.

Interesting, I bet Blizzard (188) was contacted on Friday as well. They are added and still awaiting a division like you were. I am curious with the timeline of how FIRST fills and posts divisions. Did your invite email come before Divisions were posted around 6PM Eastern? When did you confirm that you would be attending?

It would make sense for there to be one more add to even out the divisions. Although, history shows us that divisions assignment doesn't always make sense. For example in 2009, Newton had 88 teams while Galileo had 86 teams (the other 2 divisions had 87 teams) .

I don't understand why FIRST doesn't set the number of teams per division to a multiple of 3 (like 87 or 90) so there are no surrogate matches in qualification. Seeding at Championship is crazy enough without playing additional matches which don't count for some of the participants. There were still enough teams on the wait list and no clear limits (that I can see) to prevent 90 teams/division (and it would only take 3 more matches than 88 teams). Maybe that is something for the future when we are done this fields in the pit experiment

[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by The Lucas

Interesting, I bet Blizzard (188) was contacted on Friday as well. They are added and still awaiting a division like you were. I am curious with the timeline of how FIRST fills and posts divisions. Did your invite email come before Divisions were posted around 6PM Eastern? When did you confirm that you would be attending?

We recieved the email from FIRST Friday afternoon (1:39pm) and was given until today at noon to accept the invitation. Once we ensured we had enough students interested, we responded to the email last night. It was a little fun to look at the divisions and think which one we would prefer to be in.

We've got a couple improvements to do, driver practice as well as prescouting and some new strategies to work on, but we're be ready to play Thursday.