2015 Waitlist Spots

[Travis Hoffman]

I see 233 was not on the waitlist spot...list. Did they get a wild card somehow?

I ask this because they will be at QC - wanted to know if they generated a wild card.

On that note....do waitlist spot teams who still have to compete at regionals generate a wild card at that event? Hmm....

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

I see 233 was not on the waitlist spot...list. Did they get a wild card somehow?

I ask this because they will be at QC - wanted to know if they generated a wild card.

On that note....do waitlist spot teams who still have to compete at regionals generate a wild card at that event? Hmm....

233 got their slot by being captains of the finalist alliance to 2468 who generated a wildcard from winning EI at Champs last year.

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

I see 233 was not on the waitlist spot...list. Did they get a wild card somehow?

I ask this because they will be at QC - wanted to know if they generated a wild card.

On that note....do waitlist spot teams who still have to compete at regionals generate a wild card at that event? Hmm....

No they do not.

http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...ility-criteria

Wild Card Slots for the 2015 Championship

Teams can earn a Wild Card slot at their Regional Event. Any team at a Regional who has already earned a FIRST Championship spot prior to the Regional and earns an additional spot at the Regional (by being on the Winning Alliance or being selected for one of the three qualifying awards) will generate a Wild Card slot. Additionally, any Team earning two qualifying spots at a single Regional (e.g. by being on the Winning Alliance and earning the Chairman’s Award) will generate a Wild Card slot.

A team who has already earned a spot at FIRST Championship prior to the Regional and earns two qualifying spots at the Regional will generate two Wild Card slots.

A Team is considered to have already earned a FIRST Championship spot prior to the Regional if they are a pre-qualified team per Section 7.2, earned a spot at an earlier Regional by being selected for one of the three qualifying awards per Section 7.3.1, are on the Winning Alliance per Section 7.3.2, or earned a Wild Card slot per this section. Teams who have been selected from the Waitlist to participate in the FIRST Championship do not generate Wild Cards.

The Wild Card slots are distributed to the Finalist Alliance, in the order of Team selection (Alliance Captain, 1st Pick, 2nd Pick, Back-Up team, if a Back-Up team participated), until either all Wild Card slots generated at that event are distributed or the Finalist Alliance is out of Teams, whichever comes first. If a member of the Finalist Alliance has already earned a spot at the FIRST Championship, they are passed over and the next member of the Alliance is given the available Wild Card slot. A team may decline a Wild Card slot they have been offered, but this does not pass the Wild Card slot down to the next team in line, instead, that Wild Card slot will go unused. Unused Wild Card slots will not be backfilled or replaced.

[lynca]

A bunch of waitlist invites were sent out today. Registration jumped from 335 to 386 Wednesday afternoon.

Check out the team list to see if your team was invited.
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...p-event?id=432

[Richard.Varone]

271 received a wait list spot today, the last CMP we attended was 2012.

[GreyingJay]

2994 got a waitlist spot! We have never been to worlds before so we are excited! It was a mad scramble to reach out to our sponsors to get help with the registration, and now we are madly scrambling to find accommodations for the team.

Question: How do we get instructions for shipping the robot? (We have never done this before). The KoP is at the school which is closed for our Easter long weekend until Tuesday, but I recall an envelope with something from FedEx. The admin manual says:

"5.8.2 Shipping your Robot to the Championship
1. If your team qualifies for FIRST Championship, you will be emailed one (1) FedEx electronic shipping document after the qualifying event to ship your robot to the FIRST Championship."

But we did not have a qualifying event because of the wait list. Do we still get an email? What should I be looking for? Please and thanks!

(We do have a crate, at least. Whew!)

Can't wait to meet everyone!

[EricH]

Originally Posted by GreyingJay

Question: How do we get instructions for shipping the robot? (We have never done this before). The KoP is at the school which is closed for our Easter long weekend until Tuesday, but I recall an envelope with something from FedEx. I also read in a manual that we should receive shipping instructions in an email once confirmed for championships, but we have not received anything yet...

What should I be looking for? Please and thanks!

Double-check the Admin Manual--I think it's Section 4. I've also heard about the email.

[Mark McLeod]

FRC Logistics should contact your Main or Shipping contact about the robot FedEx.
You'll fill out a short web form (e.g., address of pickup, crate weight and dimensions) then a few days later they email you FedEx shipping forms.

After you receive the forms you have two business days to arrange a pickup directly through FedEx.

[GreyingJay]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

FRC Logistics should contact your Main or Shipping contact about the robot FedEx.
You'll fill out a short web form (e.g., address of pickup, crate weight and dimensions) then a few days later they email you FedEx shipping forms.

After you receive the forms you have two business days to arrange a pickup directly through FedEx.

Thanks. We have not received the email yet but we will keep on the lookout.

[tindleroot]

Team 135 is officially qualified for Worlds now (not waitlist registered) since we won the Indiana State Chairman's award. Even without Chairman's we still would have qualified through district points.

[RoboAlum]

FRC Team 4841qualified yesterday at the AZ West Regional winning the Engineering Inspiration award no longer waitlist registered. 😀See you in St.Louis