Cal Game 2003 date decided... Who is interested?

[Ken Leung]

Hi all. We've decided Cal Game 2003 to be on September 20th this year. Most likely it will return to Pioneer High school, but that part of the details are still being hammered out. I will keep you in touch with the planning and organizing progress.

If you are interested in attending Cal Game 2003, please reply to this thread, or send me an e-mail at wheres_kenny@hotmail.com

Thanks!

[Wetzel]

I'll be there!

Wetzel
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CAL GAMES OR BUST!

[Daniel Brim]

I'm interested, but I don't know if team 294 is! Hopefully I can drag them along with me :-)

[Kristina]

Argh, if were only one week earlier!!! I'm moving into the dorms that weekend. I still recommend that all of you come to the so cal games...whenever that may be. I'll try to be at that one for sure.

[Sean_330]

I will be there!

[DougHogg]

Team 980 is interested.

Thank you for getting us the date well ahead of time so we can plan.

I will bring it up at our next meeting.

[Kevin A]

DART #481 will be there!!!

[FotoPlasma]

Uh. I'll be there. Duh.



Hope to see you all there, as well! Even you, Kristina!

[Alex1072]

1072's interested.

[Kevin A]

Hello,

Do you need any field parts? De Anza has all the carpet from Sacramento and a ramp that we built. We do have one bin, but its the wrong color. If you need any field parts or help setting up, just PM me.

[Ken Leung]

Originally posted by kevcan
Hello,

Do you need any field parts? De Anza has all the carpet from Sacramento and a ramp that we built. We do have one bin, but its the wrong color. If you need any field parts or help setting up, just PM me.

We will definitely appeciate the carpets from you guys! That will help us out a lot in the field setup. Also, we are considering having a king of the hill side event, and a section of the ramp would be really useful in that. Thanks for offering.


On a side note, thanks to all the teams expressing interest for Cal Game.

So far, the following teams are interested:

100, 114, 115, 254, 256, 258, 481, 581, 604, 605, 766, 814, 840, 841, 846, 852, 968, 980, 1072, and 1151.

That's 20 teams already!!!!!!!! Not including some of the major WRRF players in the bay area. At this rate, if we get these 20 teams, plus a few more in my mind (192, 376, 1045, 480, 971, 973, 253, etc), we might have a 30 teams event, maybe 32! Very close to a regional, event bigger than the Sacramento regional .

It will be tons of fun! So for those of you interested, and haven't express interests already, please reply to this thread or E-mail me at the above address.

[Cory]

100 will definitely be there. I am really excited to see So Cal teams coming up... especially 968 which I have heard a lot about and my team's former captain is a mentor on.

/me glares at Kristina

No need to be afraid of us Nor Caler's. We wont eat you... well Jim might

j/k

Look at wetzel hes coming all the way from VA you can come a few hundred miles =)

Cory

P.S. We have one thirs of the ramp framed in wood with two mesh sections if they are needed for side events Ken.

[Clanat]

Where is it? (not from california)

[FotoPlasma]

Originally posted by Clanat
Where is it? (not from california)

Last year, it was held at Pioneer High School, in San Jose, California.

It'll definitely be there again, this year.

San Jose is about 50 miles south of San Francisco, and about 300 miles north of Los Angeles. It's also about 500 miles from Bend, Oregon, just FYI.

[Ken Leung]

Hi!

Cal Game will probably go back to Pioneer High school this year, which is located at San Jose. Because this week is spring break for Pioneer, we cannot ask the administration about this until the break is over. We are going to try bringing it back to Pioneer, since it worked out really well last year, but there is a possibility we need to find another venue.

We are going to open friday eventing for teams to drop off their robot, and we are considering having inspections and practices that night too, so we can start with matches as early as possible.

The date is september 20th. A lot of teams use Cal Game to help their new members get familiar with the competition, and give the champion title one more try. The registration fee is $300 per robot (some may choose to enter more than one robot), and all the rules follow the FIRST rules, maybe except the finals which we will probably do best 2 out of 3 instead of elimination points. Looking at the amount of people interested, we are thinking we will have a close to 30 teams competition, maybe even a nicer number of 32.

Beside the main competition like the one you participate at the regionals, there will be 3 other side events, which still have to be decided. So far, the ideas we have is a autonomous mode game, king of the hill with 2 robot fighting for the ramp, speed challenge, and human player contest. Any input from anyone is most welcomed.

Like last year, there will be a website up and running for Cal Game registration.

Let me know if you have any more questions! I will be happy to answer them.

-Ken Leung