Inter-District Play in 2017

[pribusin]

Originally Posted by Karthik

March 30 - April 1st. It's listed as the "Ontario District - Windsor Essex Great Lakes Event".

Nope, not coming up for me on the FIRST website under event search. But given the date we have a conflict with it anyways with one of our local events.

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by ratdude747

Scorekeepers?

I'm not certain, but I believe there's still a need for Scorekeepers.

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by pribusin

Nope, not coming up for me on the FIRST website under event search. But given the date we have a conflict with it anyways with one of our local events.

Hmm, I'm noticing the same glitch.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by pribusin

Nope, not coming up for me on the FIRST website under event search. But given the date we have a conflict with it anyways with one of our local events.

It won't appear if the dates conflict with another event you are already signed up for. All the other events that share the week will not be listed as a choice for you in TIMS.

[Chris Fultz]

is there a way to see all events and open spaces?

we are waitlisted on 2 weeks, so i don't see any of the other district options so we can decide.

[marshall]

Signed us up for the CHP Blacksburg event. On the waitlist so hopefully we'll get in but I don't have my hopes up.

[Lil' Lavery]

CHS events appear to have lowered their capacities this morning, so that any inter-district registrations would be wait lists instead of guaranteed registrations. I understand this, as they wanted to preserve any open slots for potentially late registering local teams.

Originally Posted by Chris Fultz

is there a way to see all events and open spaces?

we are waitlisted on 2 weeks, so i don't see any of the other district options so we can decide.

http://173.255.246.196/2017/

[TDav540]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

CHS events appear to have lowered their capacities this morning, so that any inter-district registrations would be wait lists instead of guaranteed registrations. I understand this, as they wanted to preserve any open slots for potentially late registering local teams.

I believe they did the same in GA a while back, because I know that PCH Gainesville will have 36-38 teams, and only 32 have registered to date.

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

CHS events appear to have lowered their capacities this morning, so that any inter-district registrations would be wait lists instead of guaranteed registrations. I understand this, as they wanted to preserve any open slots for potentially late registering local teams.



http://173.255.246.196/2017/

All inter-district teams last year were immediately waitlisted. Those who applied for this kind of participation will have to wait until likely the first or second week of December.

[Karthik]

So far Ontario has 5 teams coming to visit from other districts.

33 - Windsor
190 - Western
216 - Victoria Park
244 - Victoria Park
288 - Victoria Park

Does anyone else have data on teams taking advantage of inter-district play?

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Does anyone else have data on teams taking advantage of inter-district play?

Many districts seem to be taking the wait list approach to all inter-district play. Good chance we won't know any meaningful data on it until later.

[Kartoffee]

Michigan team here, about 15-20 minutes from Detroit, but attending "local" competitions for multiple reasons. Of course, I don't speak for my whole team, but lots of people on our team are mostly worried about the travel expenses and time. Hope to see some Canadian teams in the Michigan District, maybe for a chance to be on Robozone.

[TJP123]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Many districts seem to be taking the wait list approach to all inter-district play. Good chance we won't know any meaningful data on it until later.

I was told that FIRST isn't allowing events to open up the waitlist until 12/12/16*.


*I used the American date format instead of the International one

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by TJP123

*I used the American date format instead of the International one

Thanks for the clarification.

[IKE]

Originally Posted by Kartoffee

Michigan team here, about 15-20 minutes from Detroit, but attending "local" competitions for multiple reasons. Of course, I don't speak for my whole team, but lots of people on our team are mostly worried about the travel expenses and time. Hope to see some Canadian teams in the Michigan District, maybe for a chance to be on Robozone.

I do not believe there will be a lot of open spots in Michigan unless we add another another event (a couple were added a couple weeks ago). That being said, we are now a large enough organization that we might have some pre-season fallout which could open up a few spots.

Relevant to this thread, the standard 40 team district format with 12 matches requires 80 matches for qualifying (every match counts). Each team added or removed increases or decreases the schedule by 2 matches effectively. With an early season cycle time of likely 7-ish minutes, adding a team basically adds about 15 minutes more towards the qualifying schedule. Later in the season, adding 1 is a bit less impactful as the cycle time tends to get faster with practice and experienced robots.