Savage Soccer Competition (VEX)

[dk5sm5luigi]

Savage Soccer is an annual competition run by WPI. The competition was originally designed to give new students on Team 190 competition experience before the FIRST season started, but it has now evolved into a stand-alone program to give anyone who is interested in robotics a chance to compete and learn. For the past several years, we have invited local high schools and first teams to compete. This year we are expanding the program to allow teams to compete with either the IFI Robovation kit (previously known as the Edu-bot) and the VEX kit.

The competition is run similarly to FRC, with a kickoff event to announce the game, a short (4 week) build season immediately following kickoff, and a competition event. Like FRC, the game will consist of both an autonomous mode and a manual mode. For those teams who are competing in the FIRST Vex Challenge, this will not conflict, as our competition ends a full three months before the FVC tournament. Plus, it is a great way to practice building and competing with small robots!

The best part about this competition, besides how much fun you will have, is that it is completely free. Last year, we had 14 teams from across New England, and this year we are planning on plenty more. There will also be several remote competitions this year, but the details on those are still being worked out. If you would be interested in hosting a remote competition, please contact us at savage@wpi.edu

For more information please go to http://www.wpi.edu/~savage/

Team Registration is open at: http://users.wpi.edu/~savage/Teams/register.html

Hope to see many of you there.

[dk5sm5luigi]

The Savage Soccer competition kicks off tomorrow at 9AM. We are still accepting team registrations from anyone who is interested. We are up to 28 teams and it looks to be a great event.

We will be webcasting the kick off tomorrow on our website http://www.wpi.edu/~savage/. We will be posting the link tomorrow morning.

[dk5sm5luigi]

The webcast of our kick off is at http://www.wpi.edu/~savage/webcast.html

If you are still interested in joining after watching you can sign up on our website: http://www.wpi.edu/~savage/

[dk5sm5luigi]

We are closing team registration for Savage Soccer on Wednesday at midnight. If you were curious before our kick-off as to what Savage Soccer is you can go to your website at http://users.wpi.edu/~savage/Rules and view our game rules for this year. We have also posted a little video about how the game works here: http://users.wpi.edu/~savage/Rules/I...koff-video.wmv