FRC Blogged-Frank Answers...Monday?

[kiasam111]

This is INCREDIBLY COOL. I LIKE. =) =)

We're still working hard towards a regional! Our goal is for the first Australian FRC Regional tournament to be held in 2015, and as has been mentioned, we are currently at 14 teams, with the 15th on the way. 13 of those 14 teams competed at the Duel Down Under in a 2v2 version of Ultimate Ascent. And as has been alluded to, it was the second year of the Duel Down Under (DDU). These teams received a kit after the season had ended to build their robots for DDU.

Most of those teams didn't actually go to a regional this year, but 3 of them joined us in Hawaii, and one of them won Rookie All-Star and joined us in St Louis. The main reason the other teams didn't come was because of the school year, which starts in week 3 of build season, meaning that school teams would have half the time to build their robots.

In addition to those teams from Australia, China had 2 teams this year, Taiwan had 1 (there are probably more that I haven't found out about yet) who will also come to the Australian regional.

So in answering your question of

What ever happened to Australia's effort to have a regional?

, we are working hard on it, and it's coming! =)