Official FIRST Week Zero 2016

[Mr_I]

Wow ... "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth."

As I dismissed my computer class to lunch, I "just happened" to look at the Chief Delphi portal (something I haven't done for a few days), saw the recent post for Week Zero, and followed the link to the registration page ... and was registered by 12:08pm.
Now I see that the slots are almost all filled.

Looking forward to seeing friends old and new in February!

[dk5sm5luigi]

Do you have information for 1735, I filled out the form around 12:05.
-Nick

[Dan Petrovic]

Originally Posted by dk5sm5luigi

Do you have information for 1735, I filled out the form around 12:05.
-Nick

Yep. I just double-checked and I see your registration. That brings the list of teams to:

58
78
88
125
157
166
190
238
296
319
811
1058
1073
1153
1519
1729
1735
1922
2342
3467
5400
5813

[Trying to Help]

I filled out the form too for 1729 and I don't see us on the list. I just sent an email to the team gmail address too. Hopefully you'll find us on the list too!

[Trying to Help]

Originally Posted by Ken Streeter

Awesome! It will be great to have some Canadian teams there to make Week Zero an international event!

Yes! That's one of the things that I miss with our new district model; we don't get to see teams from farther away now. It was so nice to meet great FIRST people from such a wide area.

[Dan Petrovic]

In just under four hours, Week Zero 2016 has reached capacity! We are still accepting wait list registrations and teams will be taken off the wait list in order of when they register, so don't delay in adding your team to the list!

Here is the updated list of registered teams:

58
78
88
125
157
166
190
238
296
319
811
1058
1073
1153
1289
1519
1729
1735
1922
2342
3467
5400
5813
5687

Current wait list:

509

We will be sending invoices to all registered teams and the due date by the end of tonight.

[Roger]

Need any field resetters? Us "other staff"* need to practice too! Assuming you haven't arranged for a snow storm again...

And Walpole RoboRebels 1153 are both registered and waitlisted?

* You can look it up; it's in the rules -- the field resetters are resigned to be called "other".

[cbpetrovic]

Field Resetters:

Sure thing! We met with a few FIRST folks yesterday and field reset was mentioned. There's always opportunity.

This year Kelly Ashton (FIRST) will be holding volunteer training sessions across the hall in the theater (sorry, popcorn's not allowed )

With a full house, we'd like to know approximately how many members each team is expecting to have at the event; it'll help to plan concessions.

Please let us know via email to 166.first@gmail.com with your team # in the subject line and the approximate headcount in the message body. Please respond by Tuesday, 16-Feb-2016, 7PM.

See you all on 2/20!

[cbpetrovic]

Clarification on the training in the little theatre.

This is NOT for volunteers, but for Head Referees, and not open to the public.

Sorry for the confusion!

[Hallry]

Any possibility of a webcast?

[Roger]

So, volunteer Field Resetters are to meet in the school's weight room for training?

[Dan Petrovic]

Originally Posted by Hallry

Any possibility of a webcast?

This is an excellent question and completely slipped our minds when planning this scrimmage.

Unfortunately, none of us on Chop Shop have any streaming experience nor do I believe we have anywhere close to the right equipment to provide a serviceable webcast. If we get some help, then it could happen, but it's rather unlikely that we, Chop Shop, will be able to set this up in short order.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by Dan Petrovic

This is an excellent question and completely slipped our minds when planning this scrimmage.

Unfortunately, none of us on Chop Shop have any streaming experience nor do I believe we have anywhere close to the right equipment to provide a serviceable webcast. If we get some help, then it could happen, but it's rather unlikely that we, Chop Shop, will be able to set this up in short order.

Maybe contacting NE FIRST or FIRST HQ could make this possible.

[Dan Petrovic]

Good news, everyone!

We have contacted both NE FIRST and GameSense. Francis O'Rourke and Ty Tremblay of GameSense quickly got back to us and we are working together to make a live stream of Week Zero possible!

There are still a few questions that we need answered from our host venue, but we are getting closer to having a webcast of Week Zero. More information will be supplied soon.

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by Dan Petrovic

Good news, everyone!

We have contacted both NE FIRST and GameSense. Francis O'Rourke and Ty Tremblay of GameSense quickly got back to us and we are working together to make a live stream of Week Zero possible!

That's awesome, thanks! Looking forward to it.