MARC Registration is NOW OPEN

[Dylan Gramlich]

so how many teams are attending as of now? and which teams?

[Koko Ed]

A suggestion: bring information about MARC to IRI and pass information around as one final push to attract teams. We're going to do that for Ruckus. The worst they can say is no.

[johnr]

great idea about handing info out at iri. you might want to think about telling the teams that if they attend the first marc they will always be invited back. you never know how big it might get in the future. just another selling point.

[Steve Ketron]

To answer a couple questions,

These are the teams that are scheduled to come so far; Teams Attending: 70, 226, 279, 503, 910, 1023, 1126, 1504, 1528, 1732, 1864. Not all have paid yet put I have received acommittment from these teams.

I am planning on bringing information about MARC to IRI and hopefully can get some of those teams to come to our event and I agree with John. If you committ to the inaugurial event you will be invited back to MARC every year. If you support us during the startup stages, then we will support you the rest of the time.

[Steve Ketron]

I am going to use a little Navy terminology here and say that every team that participates at the inaugarial MARC event will become a plankowner of the event which titles them to certain priviledges like always assured a spot at each years MARC event and guarenteed a discounted registration fee for the event. Again, I will bring this info to IRI also.

[Alex Cormier]

so what's the team list up to now?

[Steve Ketron]

Right now we have 12 teams registered but I'm going to IRI today and hopefully will have more teams by the end of the weekend.

[Dylan Gramlich]

how did the recquiting at IRI go?

[Beth Sweet]

Originally Posted by Dylan Gramlich

how did the recquiting at IRI go?

Yeah, Steve, Steve, do we have any new teams???? ::acts like little kid asking for a cookie::

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Beth Sweet

Yeah, Steve, Steve, do we have any new teams???? ::acts like little kid asking for a cookie::

cookies cookies!? i want some cookies.

ooo, and yeah is there new teams?

[KTorak]

I don't have any numbers handy for them, but Steve emailed me stating we will be looking at having around 20 teams or so for the event once some more recruiting is done and we get the registrations turned in. I'm sure he can elaborate more.

[Steve Ketron]

OK, I went to IRI and am sorry for all of you that missed the most entertaining event of the year. However, you still have an oppertunity to see something that has not happened all year in the "Rack-n-Roll". Team 910 is about to be the first team to score two racks in auto mode. They just barely missed this at IRI and the MARC is the next event they are attending and I believe it will be done. IS THIS A GOOD COOKIE?

I have received a verbal committment from a couple teams and a couple said they are very interested in attending but have to make sure they have enough students to come to the event. Now in order to make this event a huge success, I would like to ask each of you to talk to the teams in your area and try and get some of them to attend our event also.

When I have more teams signed up I will drop another post.

[FoleyEngineer]

910 (Foley Freeze) is really looking forward to coming. As long as one of our partners in a match doesn't have an auton mode, we can "use" their tube for our second score (it starts out touching their back corner and not ours).

We did it about 20 times in the practice gym at I.R.I. so given the right conditions (non-extreme rack angle & a little luck) we might get it!

Being able to score in about 4 seconds (from camera lock) should also be a nice thing as we're planning on assigning our cap hi/med/low buttons to that function in semi-auto or auto modes on our control board. Previously, the human players thought it was faster to do in "manual control" mode, but with our souped-up speed, we think the camera/computer can beat them. Especially around the back of the rack. We'll see!

Question... Will MARC use the same improved rules as IRI? We vote YES!

Thanks and see y'all at MARC!

[JackN]

Originally Posted by FoleyEngineer

Question... Will MARC use the same improved rules as IRI? We vote YES!

Acording to the "rules of Engagement"

Originally Posted by MARC Rules of Engagement

Autonomous Bonus: 10 bonus points will be awarded to the alliance for each keeper that is scored during the autonomous period. These keepers also follow all the rules set forth in the FIRST Rack ’N’ Roll rules

Looks like 1126, 503, 1732 and 910 are going to be going for the points.

I am so pumped, this is going to be great.

I think that the alliances will all be really good.

[Steve Ketron]

OK, team 1126 is unable to make it to our event. It was a lons-shot for them to make and they just couldn't pull it off with the correct number of mentors/students so we lost one team. However, some of them are still coming to our event to help us out. So thank you guys for the long journey to help.

So this is what we have so far, the following teams are currently coming: 47, 70, 226, 240, 279, 503, 910, 1023, 1243, 1504, 1528, 1732, and 1864. That gives us a total of 13 teams as of now. I am waiting for a reply from 1038 who might bring a pre-registered team with them and I have a pre-registered team from my area also. Any of you that can sweet talk some of your other local teams into coming, We would greatly appreciate it.