Qotw [12-15-02]: Other locations for regional competitions...

[Ken Leung]

Hi all. Its time for question of the week again. Let's have a fun one this week .

Questions 12/15/02: In the future, what other cities would you like to see having a regional FIRST Robotics Competition?


Remember, we now have teams from Canada, Brazil, and Germany. In the future, FIRST might expand to even more countries around the world, so answers don’t have to be limited by the four countries. Also think South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica… Maybe in the far future we will expand onto other planets as well . A Mars regional sounds like a great idea too.

Have fun,

-Ken L

Please e-mail me at wheres_kenny@hotmail.com or IM me if you have any suggestions for question of the week. Thanks!

[Cory]

I want to see one in Hawaii.

[Rich Wong]

Remember, we now have teams from Canada, Brazil, and Germany. In the future, FIRST might expand to even more countries around the world, so answers don’t have to be limited by the four countries.
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... and teams from England and Purto Rico!

A lot of the European countries are involved with
Bots at the school level , they are all considering
joining the FIRST family.

Even Japan has SumoBot competitions.

... a Japan Regional.......

[dlavery]

Fairbanks, Alaska! Or even better, Coldfoot Alaska (just inside the Arctic Circle)!

I have been saying for a few years now that we need to work to have the FIRST Arctic Circle Regional!

-dave

[Ken Leung]

Originally posted by Rich Wong
Remember, we now have teams from Canada, Brazil, and Germany. In the future, FIRST might expand to even more countries around the world, so answers don’t have to be limited by the four countries.
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... and teams from England and Purto Rico!

A lot of the European countries are involved with
Bots at the school level , they are all considering
joining the FIRST family.

Even Japan has SumoBot competitions.

... a Japan Regional.......

What other CITIES would you like to see having regionals in those country ?

Its Europe! There got to be SOME famous cities in there, right?

This just popped into my mind... It would be really cool if Rome have a regional, and the regional competition is held inside the Coliseum. Talk about a change of culture! Instead of gladiators fighting each other and animals promoting violence, we would have robotics competition promoting science and technology. I bet they didn't expect that when they first built the Coliseum.

[Bill Gold]

Originally posted by dlavery
Fairbanks, Alaska! Or even better, Coldfoot Alaska (just inside the Arctic Circle)!

I have been saying for a few years now that we need to work to have the FIRST Arctic Circle Regional!

-dave

Barrow, AK

[sanddrag]

I'd love to see robots that run on snow. Or if that wasn't the game, we could drive them on the snow anyway.

[Ashley Weed]

Originally posted by sanddrag
I'd love to see robots that run on snow. Or if that wasn't the game, we could drive them on the snow anyway.

Actually.. I don't recommend it... here in the mountain country where my team is located, we don't have a big 'warm' season, so most of the time it is cold & in the snow. Anyways, most of our festivals are 'Winterfests'.... we attempted to go off roading in the snow... and wow! I have never seen so much magic white smoke or sparks before!!!!

[Eric Bareiss]

Las Vegas has a growing number of teams and i'm sure, an endless supply of places to hold a regional. It would also help to alieviate some of the stress on the four already full western regionals (LA, San Jose, Sac, AZ).

Also Wyoming would be a great place to have one, it is the center of the nothern states that either have no teams or have very few, it might give a little push to start teams in those states.

[Jon K.]

I wouldn't mind going back to London. That would be a neat place to have a regional.

[Wetzel]

Hamburg, Germany
Kyoto, Japan
Denver, Colorado
Salt Lake City, Utah
Perth, Aussieland
Tusla, Oklahoma
St. Petersburg, Russia


Wetzel
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Silly road flares.

[Dave_222]

Ireland, i dont care where just in ireland.

[Todd Derbyshire]

Boston we need one and can handle one. If New York City has one we want one

[Amy Beth]

san diego

[Mike Schroeder]

well in all serious ness, i would like to see one held in Washington DC, right on the white house lawn (like we would ever get clearance for that ) any who if i had to name a few locations,,



New Brunswick (not NJ... CANADIA)

or maybe we could travel down to the florida keyyyyssss


theres a place called Kokomo (not Indiana) thats where i wanna go to let the robots compete...


*starts white boy dancing to Beach Boys - Kokomo*