North Star Regional...

[WreckageMaster]

Originally Posted by Nemo

967 is very excited to be coming back to Minneapolis for this event. After watching some videos from Duluth, I think 2883 and 3206 will also be in the mix.

I hope everybody brings some key spare parts, because this game is tough on robots. It will hopefully be a little less rough with the new rule tweaks, but I still think the teams that go all the way will have to patch the robot up multiple times to keep it working.

Thanks for the shout out Nemo. NorthStar looks to be brutally exciting. In my opinion, there are maybe a dozen teams that could potentially take the top spot in qualifications as so much depends on the alliances each team ends up on through qualifiers, huge foul penalties (50pts) that can easily swing a match, strategy etc.

Touche on the spare parts - we have sustained some damage in our first regional and will need to make some fixes on Thursday at NorthStar. Team 3206 looks forward to hanging out and working with everyone at Mariucci this weekend. Will be lots of fun!

[jjja380]

Originally Posted by Halsam666

Who do you think will win Chairman's? 2220? 2169? 2175?

There are so many good teams that you never know.

[peirvine]

Update as of 9:47: the Field still has not shown up. A handful of volunteers are waiting for the Field to show up.

[FRC3883FRC]

Hope you guys dont have to stay up forever getting the filed set up. (if it arrives).

[nfhammes]

Originally Posted by FRC3883FRC

Hope you guys dont have to stay up forever getting the filed set up. (if it arrives).

If it arrives? When. I sincerely hope it's when.

[peirvine]

It is now 11:33 and no field yet.

[audietron]

I am wondering where the field originally came from since last week; I assume that 10,000 lakes has the Wisconsin field. Hopefully we actually have a field to play on.

[cadandcookies]

I think we'll have to put something special together for the volunteers after this field debacle.

EDIT: It sounds like the field arrived just before midnight. Everyone make sure to thank the incredible volunteers!

[peirvine]

It arrived at 11:50pm and Field set up is underway!

[FRC3883FRC]

Its about time. All the volunteers deserve their own award for this one. Wish we could be there to help. See you guys there tomorrow.

[ehochstein]

Thank you to all the volunteers that stayed to help out. We had members from 3018 Nordic Storm, 525 Swartdogs, 2052 KnightKrawler, 2470 The Blitz Team and 2175 the Fighting Calculators there until 1:30am. The field was mechanically setup and we were finishing up the electronics at that time. Please bring your FTAs coffee tomorrow morning!

[waialua359]

Field was stuck at Customs coming from the Waterloo Event last week.

[audietron]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Field was stuck at Customs coming from the Waterloo Event last week.

This would explain a lot.
Great job to all the hard working volunteers, you guys are awesome!

[cgmv123]

This can't be the first time (this season, let alone in the entire history of FIRST) that a field has had to clear customs. What happened this time?

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by cgmv123

This can't be the first time (this season, let alone in the entire history of FIRST) that a field has had to clear customs. What happened this time?

I'm not sure about other fields in the past, but for sure robots often have issues. A china team last year came to Hawaii but their robot never made it. Stuck at customs permanently and very heartbreaking.��