2016 MAR Season

[George A.]

Originally Posted by vmorgs

I'm a coach of the 60th team and this is KILLING me! Do teams typically decline their invitations? This is my first year as a coach so have no frame of reference.

Last year several teams declined to the point where there were 55 slots available but only 53 teams competed.

A combination of the short notice, the back to back weeks, the registration cost, or maybe qualified for Championships from another avenue (Regional award/win etc).

So if you are 60th in the rankings I would at least start making plans (getting registration fees together, getting a bus reserved, and students getting prepared) in the event that you receive the call.

[M.O'Reilly]

Hm, the FIRST website was updated this morning to list the 60 registered teams for the MAR Championship.

Can't imagine it's completely accurate though, since two of the teams are not actually MAR teams (1671 and 4594). Perhaps typos? Looks like 1676 is a qualifier but not listed as registered.

http://www.firstinspires.org/team-ev...event?id=17365

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by M.O'Reilly

Hm, the FIRST website was updated this morning to list the 60 registered teams for the MAR Championship.

Can't imagine it's completely accurate though, since two of the teams are not actually MAR teams (1671 and 4594). Perhaps typos? Looks like 1676 is a qualifier but not listed as registered.

http://www.firstinspires.org/team-ev...event?id=17365

That is interesting. I can confirm that 1676 is planning on attending MAR Champs.

[Ben Martin]

Originally Posted by M.O'Reilly

Hm, the FIRST website was updated this morning to list the 60 registered teams for the MAR Championship.

Can't imagine it's completely accurate though, since two of the teams are not actually MAR teams (1671 and 4594). Perhaps typos? Looks like 1676 is a qualifier but not listed as registered.

http://www.firstinspires.org/team-ev...event?id=17365

Looks like 1671 is a typo of 1676 and 4594 is a typo of 4954