Off Season Events and Tournaments

[ehaw17]

Hello FIRSTers!

I'm from team 1305, in North Bay ON Canada. We're about four hours North of Toronto so it's a bit unlikely to have our community to come down to our regionals. Even so, they love our events like Robomania (robotics celebration at our mall) and enjoy seeing us at countless community events.

So I thought, if we can't really bring our community to robotics, why not bring robotics to our community?

Next summer I'd love for us to host an off season, FRC tournament. This would include a full size field playing next years FRC game, and a pit presentation area. If we have enough teams participate, we might even have a mini-Chairman's competition, with alumni or team members from our team to act as judges.

Along with robots, teams could also enjoy what our small city has to offer - hiking trails, camping, decent shopping (decent for northern ontario, anyway) and our community's beautiful Waterfront.

Is this possible? Would teams be willing to travel four or more hours to come see us? It's just an idea right now, and I'd appreciate any advice.

Thanks,

Emily Haws

Captain
FIRST Team 1305
Near North Student Robotics Initiative
Ice Cubed