New Offseason FRC Event – In China!!

[artdutra04]

When you're sightseeing, Victoria Peak in Hong Kong has beautiful views of Hong Kong island and Kowloon.

The lines at the Shenzhen Bay border crossing always seem to be shorter than the Lok Ma Chau or Lo Wu HK/mainland border crossings, but unless it's a major travel day you can probably get through any of these in 30 minutes or less. If it's a major travel day it might take 2-3 hours to get through customs and immigration.

Also, the Google Maps views between Satellite and Maps view are intentionally off by a random amount (sometimes up to a half kilometer) due to a Chinese law. However if you go to ditu.google.com the maps view will be the same between Satellite and Maps view. The reason this version works fine is because this maps view shows the Chinese territorial borders as claimed by China.

Edit: you can leave the lights and AC on in your hotel room 24/7 by sticking any random card into the slot by the door. Otherwise the AC will turn off when you leave the room.

[Steven Donow]

I hope you guys bring a camera along and film some stuff!

[Tom Ore]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

When you're sightseeing, Victoria Peak in Hong Kong has beautiful views of Hong Kong island and Kowloon.

We were there during our workshop last Christmas - it was amazing. Here's a view of Victoria Harbor.

[Tom Ore]

We're here in Shenzhen. It's a long trip to get here - left home about 5:15 AM Thursday to drive to Chicago. The flight is 15 1/2 hours and we were held up at the gate for 2 hours for repairs - so we were on the plane for 17 1/2 hours. Arrived in Hong Kong about 8:00 PM Friday. (China is 13 hours ahead.) Had to go through the line for immigration into Hong Kong, then a ride to the border with mainland China and immigration into mainland China, then the drive to the hotel and finally got into our hotel rooms around midnight.

[mwmac]

This is very exciting news...good luck to all involved in making it a big success.

[Tom Ore]

Here are a couple of pics. The venue is the basketball arena that was built for the 2011 University Games.

[MARS_James]

Originally Posted by Tom Ore

Here are a couple of pics. The venue is the basketball arena that was built for the 2011 University Games.

I don't know why but seeing the FIRST Field in white instead of just metal looks really nice, and I personally would love to see it in person

[woudie]

Woah this is one of the coolest things I've seen on Chief Delphi so far, hope you guys have sweet footage of your adventure over there and also goodluck !

[Tom Ore]

Some more pics...

[waialua359]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

Never been to China, but we are looking forward to competing there for the Asia Pacific VEX Championships in December.

[JB987]

Our visit has been quite an experience so far for sure, Glenn. Challenges like finding proper tape (no gaffers to be found) and language aside, our hosts have been fantastic helping us help them put on this event. We will be posting pics on Facebook and on team987.com soon to add to the collage Tom has started here. Today is practice day for the 20 teams here, quals next day with alliance selection at end of day and elimination next morning (round robin affair). American teams will not select each other for elims...

BTW, driving around is the experience of a life-time...poor pedestrians in China do NOT have the right of way

[Tom Ore]

We completed 10 practice matches yesterday. Overall things went well - all robots got onto the field at least once which was pretty amazing all things considered. Had some minor problems such as teams changing bridge settings after they were encrypted.

A few pics from yesterday. A couple of the English translations on the sponsor banner are amusing. The trophies are really good looking! The building in the last image is a long distance shot I took from the top of a hill behind the hotel.

[DampRobot]

Originally Posted by Tom Ore

*Sponsor Banner Picture*

Too bad more of our stateside competitions aren't sponsored by our municipal propaganda agencies.

[Michael Hill]

Originally Posted by Tom Ore

We completed 10 practice matches yesterday. Overall things went well - all robots got onto the field at least once which was pretty amazing all things considered. Had some minor problems such as teams changing bridge settings after they were encrypted.

A few pics from yesterday. A couple of the English translations on the sponsor banner are amusing. The trophies are really good looking! The building in the last image is a long distance shot I took from the top of a hill behind the hotel.

Those trophies are awesome looking

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by JB987

Our visit has been quite an experience so far for sure, Glenn. Challenges like finding proper tape (no gaffers to be found) and language aside, our hosts have been fantastic helping us help them put on this event. We will be posting pics on Facebook and on team987.com soon to add to the collage Tom has started here. Today is practice day for the 20 teams here, quals next day with alliance selection at end of day and elimination next morning (round robin affair). American teams will not select each other for elims...

BTW, driving around is the experience of a life-time...poor pedestrians in China do NOT have the right of way

Thanks for the links! Looking forward to seeing more.