2016 MAR Season

[Kristian Calhoun]

Originally Posted by AGPapa

Anyway, here are the top 60 teams that will receive invites to MAR Champs. This is going to be such a crazy event!

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Good luck to everyone next weekend!

I compiled each team's highest OPR from all of their regional/district events for fun. An asterisk * denotes data from the week 6 Montgomery event was not included for that team.

Team #	Highest OPR
225	59.2
25	56
869	50.86
2590	49.4
1640	49
5895	44.2
303	44.2*
1143	44
11	42.3
1257	42.1
2016	42
3314	41.16
341	40.9
365	40.8
708	40.5
193	40
3637	38.9*
1989	38.72
5404	38.5
56	38.36
222	38.35
4954	37.6
1089	37.28
4573	36.8
4653	35.9
1626	35.8
5624	34.9
1923	34.7*
4454	34.6
1218	34.5
1811	34.2
1391	34.1
1403	33.8*
484	33.5
102	33*
5113	33
834	32.8
75	32.5
1676	32.3
41	31.5
2607	31
321	30.8
4342	30.5
2095	29.7
219	29.4
2559	29
423	28.7
5407	28
2234	28
4750	27.9*
6226	27.7
272	27*
5938	26.3
223	26.2
5684	25.8*
1647	23.4
5457	22.8
6016	22.2
5666	20.5
6203	20

[Hallry]

It looks like the updated MAR Champs schedule and event packet have been released. With the 5 additional teams added in, Practice Matches will now end at 12pm on Thursday, with the Driver's Meeting happening at 1pm and Qualification Matches running from 2pm to 5:30pm.

5 additional pits have been added to the arena layout, and they have also gotten rid of the Chairman's displays in the main lobby:

[AGPapa]

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.

Congrats on qualifying! The official rankings show that both 6226 and 219 have declined their invitations, and 5401 and 1712 are now qualified. Can't wait to see both teams there!

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Hallry

I hope Jack enjoys his steak.

Uh, I'm in on that too, I'll have you know...

Worth a plane ticket for a free steak.

[rcoren22]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Uh, I'm in on that too, I'll have you know...

Worth a plane ticket for a free steak.

I really hope so!

[Jscout11]

Didn't see it mentioned here but I saw in the waitlist thread that 5404 is now registered for CMP.

Also, good luck to everyone this weekend! Wish I could be there.

[vmorgs]

Originally Posted by AGPapa

Congrats on qualifying! The official rankings show that both 6226 and 219 have declined their invitations, and 5401 and 1712 are now qualified. Can't wait to see both teams there!

Thanks! We found out in the middle of our team meeting tonight and the kids are REALLY excited! See you at Lehigh!

[Hallry]

Oddly it looks like they took off the MAR Champs "Qualifying" label from all teams on the ranking site here: http://frc-districtrankings.firstinspires.org/2016/MAR; don't know what that's about. Also, only 55 teams are shown as registered here: http://www.firstinspires.org/team-ev...event?id=17365 (is this due to the fact that only 55 teams were scheduled to compete originally rather than 60?). There must have been one additional decline besides 6226 and 219, because 4575 (the 62nd ranked team) is now shown as registered. Anyone know of any other declines? Only 3 declines this year is nothing when compared to last year's 13 DCMP declines.

I'll be doing my best to live update my 2016 Unofficial MAR Ranking sheet at MAR Champs. Assuming no wifi, it'll be done offline on my own computer rather than on Google Docs. Feel free to find me anytime on Saturday afternoon to see how your World Champs prospects look (or feel free to download the Google Doc as an Excel file beforehand and work the numbers for yourself). Best of luck to everyone competing, and see you all at Lehigh tomorrow!

[Kristian Calhoun]

Originally Posted by Hallry

Oddly it looks like they took off the MAR Champs "Qualifying" label from all teams on the ranking site here: http://frc-districtrankings.firstinspires.org/2016/MAR; don't know what that's about. Also, only 55 teams are shown as registered here: http://www.firstinspires.org/team-ev...event?id=17365 (is this due to the fact that only 55 teams were scheduled to compete originally rather than 60?). Anyone know if there were any other declines other than 6226 and 219? Only 2 declines this year is nothing when compared to last year's 13 DCMP declines.

Previously the top 60 teams were listed on FIRST's site. The number dropped to 55 after they removed some of the declined teams and fixed the 1671/1676 and 4594/4954 mixups. 4637 posted they're attending MAR Champs, but are not yet listed on the official site. I suspect there may be a few other teams added last minute.

[Hallry]

The teams that have qualified but are not yet listed as registered are:

41. 4954
44. 2344
56. 2095
59. 5457
60. 5401
61. 1712

[alephzer0]

Originally Posted by Hallry

Oddly it looks like they took off the MAR Champs "Qualifying" label from all teams on the ranking site here: http://frc-districtrankings.firstinspires.org/2016/MAR; don't know what that's about.

This is also the case for all the other districts with week 7 DCMP events. I assume it's because the event is technically in progress (the "start date" is listed as today rather than tomorrow).

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Hallry

The teams that have qualified but are not yet listed as registered are:

41. 4954
44. 2344
56. 2095
59. 5457
60. 5401
61. 1712

1712 has paid our registration and is looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow morning.

[Hallry]

All of our MAR Champs Day 1 footage has now been uploaded to our channel and submitted to TBA! Enjoy!

[Hallry]

It looks like three more MAR teams got off the wait list for Wold Champs. Congrats to 303, 423, and 433!

[Foster]

What was going on during the MAR District Champs with the Blue Alliance connections? Most of the elims were delayed while they worked on a Blue Robot? 1640 was dead during their SF1-1 match.