OFFICIAL THREAD - Duel on the Delaware 2014

[Mr MOE]

UPDATED

2014 DUEL INFO BLAST #3

Duel on the Delaware
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Salem Community College- Davidow Hall
Carneys Point, NJ

FOCUS OF THIS COMMUNICATION – Reminders

Deadline – Paid registration (or we slot in paid waitlisted teams) – October 1
Deadline – Duel Master Volunteer Award (Application template attached) – October 1
Deadline – Mock Chairman’s Interview slots – October 1



(1) CHARITY BOOK DRIVE – Success Won’t Wait
- Continue to collect your used books for our charity book drive competition.
- Teams bringing the most books by weight will receive a trophy and special awards.
- Textbooks, encyclopedias and magazines not accepted
- Books are donated to Success Won’t Wait, a literacy non-profit. The mission is to encourage reading, especially for those in need and children.
- ** PLEASE CONSIDER HAVING YOUR TEAM COLLECT BOOKS FOR THIS WORTHWHILE CAUSE **
- For more information, check out www.successwontwait.org

(2) MIKE WADE MEMORIAL “DUEL MASTER VOLUNTEER” AWARD
- Mentor/Volunteer of the year award
- Please take the time to recognize an mentor/volunteer on your team by nominating them.
- Teams can submit one nominee who has not yet won the award from their team.
- Nomination form is attached. Please complete and return by October 1st

(3) CHAIRMANS AWARD WARM-UP PRACTICE *2nd year*
- This is not an award per se, but is an opportunity for teams to practice their Chairman’s Award presentation in front of judges
- Teams interested in participating must do the following:
o Respond by October 1st or earlier to let me know that your team is interested in participating. We will have 6 (six) judging slots. These will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
o Send in a FIRST Chairman’s Award Executive Summary (same as FIRST typically requires for the Chairman’s Award). We expect that teams will just send in the same Executive Summary that they may have used for their Chairman’s Award earlier this year.
o Due date for Chairman’s Award Executive Summary is October 5th
o Prepare to present your Chairman’s Award to judges at the Duel. Currently, the presentation would be the same as a typical Chairman’s presentation at an official FIRST event. Depending upon the number of teams who are participating, we reserve the right to modify the presentation time. We expect that it will not change.
o Let us know what you need for your presentation (AV, easels, etc.)
- Our purpose for doing this is to provide teams another opportunity to practice with real judges (we expect to have at least one of the judges be an experienced Chairman’s Award judge) and to provide some helpful feedback for teams as they prepare for the 2015 competition season.

(4) DUEL DESIGN INNOVATION AWARD
- Judges will talk with teams to recognize most outstanding design innovation teams can demonstrate on this year’s robot.
- No prework is necessary, unless your teams want to prepare something to illustrate your design innovation to judges.

GENERAL INFO
- Doors will open at 7am.
- Robot drop off is possible on Friday, October 17th as long as it is no later than 5:00pm. Please let us know beforehand if you plan to drop a bot off early
- If any mentors/parents/alum from your teams are interested in volunteering for the Duel, please let me know.
- Travel details available at http://www.moe365.org/duel2014/index.php

FIRST TECH CHALLENGE PLAY-DAY/SCRIMMAGE/WORKSHOPS
- New FTC game field will be available
- Registration limited. Contact Joe Perrotto at Joseph.A.Perrotto@dupont.com for more information

REGISTERED TEAMS (we currently have a full field of 34 teams)

REGISTERED & PAID

Team # Team Name
87 RV Robotics
203 Camden County Tech ./ Campbell's Soup
316 LuNaTecs
321 RoboLancers
357 Royal Assault
365 MOE/Miracle Workerz
375 The Robotic Plague
433 Firebirds
533 PSIcotics
816 Westech Anomaly
836 RoboBees
1089 Team Mercury
1111 The Power Hawks
1370 Thermogenesis
1626 Falcon Robotics
1640 Sab-BOT-age
1647 Iron Devils
1915 Firebird Robotics
2528 RoboDoves
2729 Storm Robotics Team
3151 Cyberstorm
3941 Absolute Zero Electricity
4342 Demon Robotics
4575 THE TIN MINTS
4637 BambiBotz
4954 4-H Palindrome Robotics

REGISTERED AND NOT PAID

Team # Team Name
75 RoboRaiders
225 TechFire
271 Mechanical Marauders
341 Miss Daisy
384 SPARKY
1218 Vulcan Robotics
2495 Hamilton West Robotics
5080 Alchemy

WAITLISTED & PAID

1719 Umbrella Academy

[Hallry]

Teams competing at Duel on the Delaware 2014 -

As with last year, I hope to visit the event with (hopefully) 2 GoPros and a Point-and-Shoot camcorder in tow. If all goes well, I plan on offering to record teams during their matches by putting a GoPro on their robot, another on their driver station, and using the point-and-shoot to record the robot from the stands. Here's a playlist of the compilation videos I made at last year's Duel on the Delaware (Thanks again, 75, 225, 1370, 1640, 3314, and 3974!).

If any teams would like to volunteer to let me record one of their matches this year, feel free to PM me.

See everyone in <20 days.

[Mike Marandola]

Here is a little preview of the trophies. Only 23 hours of printing left.

[John Retkowski]

Man those look amazing.