BattleCry@WPI 6 Registration Opening!

[Ken Stafford]

The 6th annual BattleCry will again be a 42-team, 1 1/2 day event. The date is 17-18 Jun. Registration opens online (www.wpi.edu/+battlecry) precisely at 0800EDT on 2 May (Mon). Be sure to register early, it has filled to capacity within hours the last few years. $300 gets you the usual free BattleCry t-shirts, Fri barbecue and ice cream social, Fri on-campus evening activities, Sat box lunches, plus guaranteed entry into the Elimination matches. Look for special mini-robot and human player contests. Lodging is available on-campus and at reduced-rate hotels.

Ken Stafford

[KathieK]

RAGE is looking forward to it!

[Greg Marra]

"human player contests"

I better start practicing! (I never so much as touched a tetra during competition!)

[Ian Curtis]

When will a list of teams be posted?

[BrianBSL]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

When will a list of teams be posted?

Should be sometime tomorrow. I believe it was sent into the web dev office an hour ago or so.

[Ken Stafford]

Well, BattleCry reached 43 entrants by 1300 today. For folks still wanting to get in, please go ahead and register! If you are among the first 48 to sign-up you will almost certainly get in as teams' situations change. The reserve teams will be called up in the order that they are received.

Ken (CRUD name: Blackhole)

[KathieK]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

When will a list of teams be posted?

The list is on the website now. Looks like fun!

[Kyle Fenton]

Originally Posted by KathieK

The list is on the website now. Looks like fun!

Wow there are two teams that are possibly coming from far away.
234 Cyber Blue Indianapolis, IN
971 Spartan Robotics Mountain View, CA

[Ken Stafford]

Originally Posted by Kyle Fenton

Wow there are two teams that are possibly coming from far away.
234 Cyber Blue Indianapolis, IN
971 Spartan Robotics Mountain View, CA

Yep, turnabout is only fair--Team 190 traveled to IRI last year. And 971 is led by student leader Evan (CRUD name: Ryan) who attended WPI's Robotics Camp last year and pledged to return. These folks can PLAN on getting in--and we are still looking for about 3 more teams to fill in the BC6 reserve fleet.

Blackhole

[Brant Bowen]

If some people wanted to come out there to volunteer at Battlecry, would they be able to?

[nobrakes8]

that filled up kinda fast.. *waits for a team to dropout so MAX can go*

[Alex Pelan]

It should be a great time, I know it was last year. Any chance we'll have a throwback tournament , a la last year, except perhaps with a later game as opposed to the 1992 game (or with the 1992 game again)? The team list looks great, and hopefully we can get Cyber Blue and MAX in too.

EDIT: Also, will there be "rule modifications" this year? I know last year the 10 pointers were knocked out onto the field after autonomous. Perhaps something with the hanging tetra this year?

[Ken Stafford]

Originally Posted by Alex Pelan

It should be a great time, I know it was last year. Any chance we'll have a throwback tournament , a la last year, except perhaps with a later game as opposed to the 1992 game (or with the 1992 game again)? The team list looks great, and hopefully we can get Cyber Blue and MAX in too.

EDIT: Also, will there be "rule modifications" this year? I know last year the 10 pointers were knocked out onto the field after autonomous. Perhaps something with the hanging tetra this year?

We do have a few interesting bits in the planning. There will definitely be a "Special Operations" mini-robot driver's contest again. There is a fair chance that there will be a full scale concurrent VEX tournament as well. (Hint-hint: how many teams out there would compete in a VEX tournament? Drop me an email. We ran a 12-team VEX tournament last month--cool.)

After coordinating with BC5 veterans we have made a couple of changes to the rules, check out the site.

BTW, we are still encouraging teams to sign up, based upon our experience, we can pretty much guarantee that the first 4 or 5 teams on the Ready Reserve will be called! So--MAX, CyberBlue, and AZTECHS--be READY!

Folks interested in volunteering should contact me via private message.

--Blackhole (CRUD since 1987, FIRST since 1999)

[Ian Curtis]

How many qualification matches will a team get?

[Lisa Rodriguez]

Last year there was a Battlecry STAR award, but i can't find any information about things like that on the website. Are you not doing that this year?