Capital City Classic 2016 - Registration Open

[billbo911]

From the feedback I received from Cal Game, which admittedly was very little, and from our tests in our shop, the Gopher ball works a lot like the official ball. We have had to make zero adjustments to our robot(s) for them to perform well for us.

We have a set of 33 brand new, never used, Gopher Balls for the tournament. We will also have a few extra that we will have on the practice field for teams to test with.

[MeGuttieri]

I'll see if Beach Blitz has any normal balls we can contribue. We're bringing back the AV equipment to 254 this weekend. No promises though. Will do my best

[Michael Corsetto]

Hey ya'll!

Sorry for the hassle related to the Gopher Balls everyone.

We recognize the situation is not ideal, but there are significant costs associated with using brand new FIRST Boulders over Gopher Balls.

We will have a half practice field at the venue, open Friday evening, with plenty of gopher boulders for teams to calibrate their robots with.

If you want to know, we were hesitant to spend more money than needed this year since we lost nearly $2,000 on CCC last year. Now, we love doing CCC, love the teams, love everything about it, but that was a tough bullet to bite. We've been conservative this year for that exact reason, and hope to make CCC sustainable for years to come, including the many scholarships we give to local teams that wouldn't be able to come to CCC otherwise.

Thank you to everyone offering new/lightly used official FIRST boulders. I think we will continue to to plan on using gopher balls, but if this is a make or break issue for your specific team, please PM ASAP and we can discuss.

Thanks all,

-Mike

[niklas674]

What will the practice field consist of? A tower and wood defenses?