2012 FRC Season dates

[Jimmy Nichols]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

If your gonna go too a Canadian event, go to GTR not Waterloo. GTR is wayyy better, there are more teams and you have a better chance (1114 and 2056 were on different fields last year (GTR West 2056, GTR East 1114). And the Waterloo seating is absolutely terrible. My team traveling to the states doesn't cause any issue with our school board or principle though. We just have to have normal passports and I.D, and a list of all tools in our trailer (may not be necessary but it prevents secondary inspection).

It was a mute point as we couldn't get approval to travel. We chose Waterloo because we have a limit of about 6-8 hours that we will travel to a regional and that fit within the window. GTR was just outside of that it fell on a week wouldn't couldn't travel. Either a testing week or our other regional. I don't recall which.

[plnyyanks]

A list of competition dates has been released: http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2011...ew-region.html

Week One
March 1-March 3, 2012
Alamo Regional, San Antonio, TX
BAE Systems/Granite State Regional, Manchester, NH
Greater Kansas City Regional, Kansas City, MO
Smoky Mountains Regional, Knoxville, TN

March 2-3, 2012
Hatboro-Horsham MAR FRC Qualifying Event, Horsham, PA
Kettering University MI FRC Qualifying Event, Flint, MI

Date TBD
Northville MI FRC Qualifying Event TBD, MI

Week Two
March 5-7, 2012
Israel Regional. Tel Aviv, Israel

March 8-10, 2012
Autodesk Oregon Regional, Portland, OR
Chesapeake Regional, Baltimore, MD
Finger Lakes Regional, Rochester, NY
Greater Toronto East Regional, Toronto, ON Canada
Lake Superior Regional, Duluth, MN
Orlando Regional, Orlando, FL
Pittsburgh Regional, Pittsburgh, PA
San Diego Regional, San Diego, CA
WPI Regional , Worcester, MA

March 9-10, 2012
Chestnut Hill MAR FRC Qualifying Event, Philadelphia, PA
Traverse City MI FRC Qualifying Event, Traverse City, MI
Waterford MI FRC Qualifying Event, Waterford, MI

March 10-11, 2012
Rutgers MAR FRC Qualifying Event, New Brunswick, NJ

Week Three
March 15-17, 2012
Bayou Regional, Westwego, LA
Boilermaker Regional, West Lafayette, IN
Los Angeles Regional, Long Beach, CA
Peachtree Regional, Duluth, GA
Festival de Robotique FRC a Montreal Regional, Montreal, QC Canada
Sacramento Regional, Sacramento, CA
Utah Regional sponsored by NASA & Platt, Salt Lake City, UT
Virginia Regional, Richmond, VA

March 16-18, 2012
New York City Regional, New York City, NY

March 16-17, 2012
Detroit MI FRC Qualifying Event, Detroit, MI
West Michigan MI FRC Qualifying Event, Allendale, MI

Week Four
March 22-24, 2012
Arizona Regional, Chandler, AZ
Boston Regional, Boston, MA
Buckeye Regional,. Cleveland, OH
Colorado Regional, Denver, CO
Hawaii Regional sponsored by BAE Systems, Honolulu Hawaii
Midwest Regional, Chicago, IL
Seattle Cascade Regional, Seattle, WA
Seattle Olympic Regional, Seattle, WA
Palmetto Regional, TBD, SC
St Louis Regional, St. Louis, MO
Waterloo Regional, Waterloo, ON Canada
Wisconsin Regional, Milwaukee, WI

March 23-24, 2012
Lenape MAR FRC Qualifying Event, Tabernacle, NJ
Niles MI FRC Qualifying Event, Niles, MI
Possible MI FRC Qualifying Event, City TBD, MI

Week Five
March 29-31, 2012
Dallas East Regional sponsored by jcpenney, Dallas, TX
Dallas West Regional sponsored by jcpenney, Dallas, TX
Greater Toronto West Regional, Mississauga, ON Canada
Minnesota 10,000 Lakes Regional, Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota North Star Regional, Minneapolis, MN
Northeast Utilities FIRST Connecticut Regional, Hartford, CT
Oklahoma Regional, Oklahoma City, OK
SBPLI Long Island Regional, Hempstead, NY
Silicon Valley Regional, San Jose, CA
South Florida Regional, Boca Raton, FL
Washington DC Regional, Washington, DC

March 30-31, 2012
Livonia MI FRC Qualifying Event, Livonia, MI
Mount Olive MAR FRC Qualifying Event, Flanders, NJ
Troy MI FRC Qualifying Event, Troy, MI

Week Six
April 5-7, 2011
Central Valley Regional, Madera, CA
Las Vegas Regional, Las Vegas, NV
Lone Star Regional, Houston, TX
North Carolina Regional, Raleigh. NC
Queen City Regional, Cincinnati, OH
Spokane Regional, Cheney, WA

Week Seven
April 12-14, 2011
Mid-Atlantic Robotics FRC Region Championship Event, Philadelphia, PA
Michigan FRC Region Championship Event, Ypsilanti, MI

FIRST Championship, April 26-28, 2012 St. Louis, MO

[smurfgirl]

I'm impressed that all the things that I want to go to don't conflict with each other! Looks like I might be going to four regionals this spring:

Week Two: WPI
Week Three: Montreal
Week Four: Boston
Week Five: Connecticut

I'm in love with whoever did the scheduling for Regional events right now.

[Jimmy Nichols]

We hope to throw a great Queen City Regional this year!

Almost everyone on the planning committee has double digit years of experience in FIRST and combined have attended over 100 competitions. Our goal is to bring the best of what we have all seen to this event.

Hope to see you all there!

[Travis Hoffman]

Now if we only knew which events were bag/tag....

[Dave Campbell]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

Now if we only knew which events were bag/tag....

Queen City...

[Akash Rastogi]

Any further discussion of MAR, I think should be held on the other thread. You can also read my response to MAR's level of transparency.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...99&postcount=6

[Carol A]

We are having a hard time with this schedule. Why did they put 6 out of 8 Northern midwest regionals in weeks 3-5.

With our (home) regionals the same week. Midwest and Wisc. both 1 1/2 hours away. We can't do back to back. So after deciding which home regional to do a second regional is 6 1/2 hrs away (Duluth or Queen City).

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Dave Campbell

Queen City...

I actually was kinda sorta given the hint that would be the case. Pittsburgh will likely be bag/tag again. I'm also assuming the Ontario events will be bag/tag - they'd have to confirm.

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Carol A

We are having a hard time with this schedule. Why did they put 6 out of 8 Northern midwest regionals in weeks 3-5.

With our (home) regionals the same week. Midwest and Wisc. both 1 1/2 hours away. We can't do back to back. So after deciding which home regional to do a second regional is 6 1/2 hrs away (Duluth or Queen City).

Schedules are based on a variety of reasons, of which securing the venue and when, is critical to even hosting a tournament.
Honestly, the issues of doing back-back tournaments are relative to each team and the resources they have.

We've done many back-back regionals in recent years.....a lot farther than what you're describing.

We make the best out of the schedule that comes out annually and participate as much as we can and afford.

[waialua359]

Does anyone know offhand if Houston is a bag-tag event?

[ay2b]

The full list of regional dates is now posted:

http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...egional-events

I am putting all of these dates on a public google calendar, which can be accessed here:

https://www.google.com/calendar/ical...blic/basic.ics

https://www.google.com/calendar/embe...dar.google.com