MidKnight Mayhem III - June 27, 2015

[SJaladi]

FIRST Team 1923: The MidKnight Inventors
West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District
are overjoyed to announce the return of:



THE MAYHEM RETURNS!
MidKnight Mayhem III
When: June 27th, 2015
Where: West Windsor-Plainsboro HS North
90 Grovers Mill Rd, Plainsboro NJ

Just like our first two years, event registration will be $200.
(Send us a message if you’re interested in bringing a pre-rookie).

Registration for both teams & volunteers can be found on www.midknightmayhem.org - once teams have registered through our form, we will follow up with payment information. Expect most volunteer assignments in late May/early June.

In addition to up to 36 teams playing Recycle Rush, we will also be hosting FLL and FTC demos, as well as some local groups that aren’t just about robots (We are proud to partner with Attitudes in Reverse among other exhibitors – and, c’mon…who doesn’t love puppies?!)

More work this year on attempting a team social/outing event during the weekend – we’ll let you know more info if/when it becomes available.

If you have suggestions or recommendations for us, please feel free to leave them here in this thread, or email MidKnightMayhem@gmail.com. We're also available on Twitter and Facebook.

We hope you'll help spread the word - last year we had a few teams from out of town, and we're happy to help them make accommodations. We want to make this a big, loud robot party here in Jersey, and we hope you'll be a part of it!

Team List so far:

225: TechFire – York, PA
333: Megalodons – Brooklyn, NY
484: RoboForce – Havertown, PA
1640: Sab-BOT-tage – Downingtown, PA
1796: RoboTigers – Long Island City, NY
1923: The MidKnight Inventors – Plainsboro, NJ
2016: Mighty Monkey Wrenches – Ewing, NJ
2607: Fighting RoboVikings – Warminster PA
4281: The Bulldogs – Somerset, NJ

9 Teams, 31 Spots Open! Come join us for even more Mayhem!

[Ben Martin]

TechFire always has a ton of fun at Midknight Mayhem--looking forward to another great event!

[Brian Maher]

Team 1257 will be registering soon!

[mototom]

Team 329 from Medford NY had a blast here last year!
We are most definitely going to be signing up again!
Some of our mentors might be coming down the night before just to get a jump on things, any good hotels in the area you can recommend?

Oh, and any surprise rules changes we should be aware of?

[Matt_Boehm_329]

Originally Posted by mototom

Oh, and any surprise rules changes we should be aware of?

Each team may field one robot from 2014 and a mayhem ball may be used to knock down opponents stacks (I wish)

[Richard.Varone]

271 just finished their registration and looks forward to our first time at MidKnight Mayhem!!!

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by mototom

Team 329 from Medford NY had a blast here last year!
We are most definitely going to be signing up again!
Some of our mentors might be coming down the night before just to get a jump on things, any good hotels in the area you can recommend?

Oh, and any surprise rules changes we should be aware of?

Rule Changes - We're thinking of something, but haven't yet decided. Suggestions are open!

(We will do everything in our power to make sure it's do-able with the robots as-is - the Mayhem Ball being the wrong size was not something we knew about until the day of!)

For hotels: We're working on a few ones near us to see if we can swing group rates for traveling teams, but feel free to check in with us via email about a hotel before you book it - most everything in the Plainsboro and East/West Windsor areas will be good for you.

[Billfred]

Having hosted ours for so long, I know running an off-season tournament is freakin' hard--but these guys pulled it off swimmingly last year when I went up to volunteer. Were it not several hundred miles away and when most of our kids are scattered, 4901 would definitely be signing up!

[marshall]

Need any volunteers? I might be coming to this.

[SJaladi]

Originally Posted by marshall

Need any volunteers? I might be coming to this.

Of course! Here's a link to the volunteer signup page on the MKM website.

[Clem1640]

As always, Sab-BOT-age is ready for a little Mayhem! We look forward to seeing old friends at this event.

[notmattlythgoe]

Originally Posted by Libby K

Rule Changes - We're thinking of something, but haven't yet decided. Suggestions are open!

(We will do everything in our power to make sure it's do-able with the robots as-is - the Mayhem Ball being the wrong size was not something we knew about until the day of!)

For hotels: We're working on a few ones near us to see if we can swing group rates for traveling teams, but feel free to check in with us via email about a hotel before you book it - most everything in the Plainsboro and East/West Windsor areas will be good for you.

Libby,

If you are interested we posted the rule changes for the 2015 Rumble in the Roads here.

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe

Libby,

If you are interested we posted the rule changes for the 2015 Rumble in the Roads here.

Thanks! The Masters of Mayhem (a.k.a the event committee...) will take those into account.

[Libby K]

Got a few questions about event capacity, so here's the updated team list:

102: The Gearheads - Somerville, NJ
224: The Tribe - Piscataway, NJ
225: TechFire – York, PA
271: Mechanical Marauders - Bay Shore, NY
333: Megalodons – Brooklyn, NY
484: RoboForce – Havertown, PA
869: PowerCord - Middlesex, NJ
1257: Parallel Universe, Scotch Plains, NJ
1640: Sab-BOT-tage – Downingtown, PA
1796: RoboTigers – Long Island City, NY
1923: The MidKnight Inventors – Plainsboro, NJ
2016: Mighty Monkey Wrenches – Ewing, NJ
2607: Fighting RoboVikings – Warminster PA
3974: E=McD - Wyncote, PA
4281: The Bulldogs – Somerset, NJ
4954: Palindrome Robotics, Middletown DE

16 teams, 20 slots still to go - Registration at www.midknightmayhem.org

[Jon K.]

Bummed that I will most likely miss MKM this year. The 11ish hour drive is a bit worse than the 3ish hour drive I used to have.