Beach Blitz 2016 Details

[sanddrag]

Thank you to the entire Beach Blitz committee and everyone associated with the event for making yet another high-quality low-cost opportunity for play available to Southern California teams. Speaking for the teams, we appreciate it! It was a fantastic opportunity for our brand new students to experience what a FIRST competition was like, and it was fun for me to see them engaged, having fun, and taking ownership of their team in a comfortable but competitive environment.

A big thanks also goes out to Marina High School for making the venue available. I realize it's not easy nor pleasant sometimes to let all these people from all different schools come into your facility, but we really appreciate you making it available. Your gigantic gymnasium provided ample field, spectator, and pit area space for this event, and is truly a unique facility and a great venue within Southern California. You have really done quite a service to the local teams for making your facility available so this event could take place.

Thanks again everyone, and we look forward to returning next year!

[Pauline Tasci]

Thank you to all the teams, volunteers, and spectators who attended Beach Blitz!
We loved how many people came to the competition, attended workshops, and participated in our snapchat challenges. Thank you to the awesome committee without them we would not have pulled this off.
Hope everyone had a great time and cannot wait for next year!
We will be sending out a questionnaire of how to improve the experience, make sure to have all your team members, webcast viewers, and anyone who was even at Beach Blitz for a day answer them!

With that said, all our footage from the weekend (including workshops) will be online in following days. Please keep your eye out.

If you want to see a little bit of what Beach Blitz had, here was our opening ceremonies hype video from Day 2!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tBQ...&feature=share

[Ali Ahmed]

Wow, what a fun event!

I have to thank the Beach Blitz Planning Committee for putting on such an amazing competition and for showing what a few, young, dedicated people can accomplish. Everyone was having a good time, from the scorer's table to the teams. All the volunteers were in a good mood the whole weekend (I think the free Snapple helped). I would gladly have this committee run any regional or district event (hint hint).

Big shoutout to Cooler Master for keeping the excitement up with their raffle, giveaways, and booth.

I had the honor of being a ref and I would like to thank Eric for showing us new refs how it's done and how to make fair calls, while keeping with the spirit of the event. I would also like to thank our Head Ref, Saikiran, for being cooperative with the rest of us and listening to our input. I'm totally hooked on reffing now and will be volunteering in the future because of this event.

[CMBrandon]

I would like to personally thank all the organizers of Beach Blitz. This was one of the most organized events I have ever been to. The volunteers were wonderful and always willing to help out.

Cooler Master had a great time and everyone at the office is really liking the photos we've been sharing. I look forward to more events like this in the future.

[Andrew_L]

This event was truly spectacular, and was easily one of the best California robotics events to have ever been run (and that includes regionals). For what felt like a district event but better, run by a volunteer staff with an average age of 25, it was inspiring to see how much teams could enjoy a high quality event for such little cost.

My favorite aspect about this event, however, was how well they treated their volunteers. When it comes to treating people right, this event "gets it". Everyone felt like their contribution mattered, and everyone was treated with equal respect. Beach Blitz is going to be bigger and better in 2017, and I cannot wait to be a part of it again.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Andrew_L

For what felt like a district event but better

How do you know what a district event feels like?

[jaredhk]

Match video will be coming hopefully by the end of the day today.

[Pauline Tasci]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

How do you know what a district event feels like?

Why do you question Farmer John?

[Pauline Tasci]

Fill out the Beach Blitz 2016 feedback form so we can better improve the event for next year!

https://goo.gl/forms/XtEqVxbCtvmOik3g2

[jaredhk]

All elimination matches are up on our YouTube playlist!

The videos have been submitted to TBA so should be up fairly soon.

Edit: We know that YouTube may be blocking a match or two in some countries because of music and are working on a fix

[rsisk]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

How do you know what a district event feels like?

I've been to a couple MAR events and this beat the ones I've been to, specifically the facility. I think volunteer wise it was comparable.

[frcguy]

Originally Posted by Pauline Tasci

Why do you question Farmer John?

[Pauline Tasci]

We have gotten a ton of awesome feedback about Beach Blitz!
Keep them coming,
https://goo.gl/forms/XtEqVxbCtvmOik3g2

[markmcgary]

Originally Posted by jaredhk

All elimination matches are up on our YouTube playlist!

Is there a chance that the qualification match videos will be posted eventually? I appreciate the effort that goes into editing and posting match videos. This event generated a number of exciting qualifiers. Crossing fingers. Thank you!

[Pauline Tasci]

Originally Posted by markmcgary

Is there a chance that the qualification match videos will be posted eventually? I appreciate the effort that goes into editing and posting match videos. This event generated a number of exciting qualifiers. Crossing fingers. Thank you!

There are no plans to post separate qualifying match footage on Youtube, but the full live stream can be found on Periscope and Twitch. There you can find all matches played.