Lego League Teams

[bhsrobotics1671]

Buchanan Robotics volunteered over 20 hours at the state championships in Clovis, CA. We helped mentor 12 other teams before the actual championship event. We had 2-4 of our team member per FLL team in our area. 3 of the teams we mentored placed in the top ten. 73 teams actually competed at the tournament. Our robotics team recieved two awards for our help in the tournament and mentoring.

[Laaba 80]

I have not seen a perfect score yet this season. I mentored two teams this year, neither of which could get perfect scores. I was a ref at the Mukwanago regional, and the WI state tournament, and the best score was 397. That team uses an RCX, and is capable of a perfect score.

[GVDrummer]

Some teams that qualified through the Grandville Invitational hosted by Team #288 the RoboDawgs were home schooled or just a group of kids. The top teams were from schools however.

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by GVDrummer

The award that is given out to go to Worlds in Atlanta is at Flint, Michigan this year. The tournament is this Saturday the 15th. One award is given out to the team who places best in the Teamwork Challenge, technical Judging, The presentation, and final the robot competition.

The advancement to World Festival from Michigan has not yet been officially announced, although it has been determined. Many know what that decision is, but I am not at liberty to say.

The Champion Award team at the Novi tournament scored a perfect 400 in their last round. They had scored 395 earlier in the day. I wish I could remember their team number! Second place on the table was a 399 (an RCX with a raw score of 395 - at these high levels, the RCX bonus is not nearly as significant.)

FLL has become so popular around the world that there just isn't enough space in Atlanta to invite the winners of all State Tournaments. All but 6 states have a State Tournament. Of those 6, at least 3 go to a different state - VT to NH, NM and OK to the Tri-State Tournament in TX. Five states have 2 tournaments (AK, MA, ME, MI, PA). TX has 3, CA has 4, and NY has 5. That makes a total of 58 - way too many.

Incidentally, Paul Gudonis was at the Novi tournament and he said there were over 10,000 FLL teams world-wide.

[GVDrummer]

10,000 teams.. that seems high

[Bomberofdoom]

Team 2230 from Handasaim-Herzeliya High School, Israel is supporting this year 5 FLL teams, 4 from our High School, and an additional one from the nearby Junior High School, Yad Giyora, which is really great for us as a 2nd year team.

I just love FLL.

[Boydean]

Our team helped start and mentor the only FLL team in our town, but we are still working on getting some more teams started for next year.Not to mention host a FLL scrimmage for the team in the surrounding areas.

I will say that the rules for this years game is a little flip-flopish

One last thing: Has anyone thought of the idea of baseing the theme for FLL around the game for FRC, then that can be the hint. But just maybe they aren't enough into planning the FRC game to base the FLL theme around it.

[Rich Wong]

Originally Posted by GVDrummer

10,000 teams.. that seems high

2006 "Nano Quest" 8,846 teams.

2007 "Power Puzzle" 10,600 teams (projected)
US and Canada: 250+ qualifying tournaments and 64 championship tournaments
Outside US & Canada: 112 Qualifying tournaments and 25 championship tournament.
(Data from FLL History at www.firstlegoleague.org)

[Akash Rastogi]

We run 4 or 5 teams just in our district and a few others from local counties.MORTalso hosts the NJ State Championships at Mount Olive high School which btw went very well this past Saturday .

[Pavan Dave]

We have three regionals in Texas and I believe all of them are Atlanta qualifiers. Our team mentors about 20 teams (+/- 1 or 2), and we run the Lone Star FLL tournament. I think one or two of the teams we mentored made it into the final four but our approach to mentoring is different and so the kids do all of the stuff and we just point them in the right direction and teach them things here and there.

Also many parents have asked me about the next step in robotics for their kids and in our district BEST is the answer. I also told a few parents about VEX because they asked and I think that is a great Christmas present for a middle school kid or even a high school kid or an engineer.

EDIT: Link to Largest FLL Tournament in the World thread.

[pakratt1991]

the FLL team I, and another student worked with, 3750, The Micro Transformers, scored a 375, 400, and a 330 at the Competition in Corvallis Oregon. At which my team volunteered.

[Tsom467]

Team 467 (Duct Tape Bandits) has had Lego teams for the past 7 or 8 years or so, usually multiple team. This year we had 4 teams, consisting of 10 middle school students ("Junior Bandits"). 10 of the high school students coach and mentored the 4 teams. We went to 3 competitions this year and for the first time, we held our own Lego League competition (www.mindstormmayhem.org). Our teams did a fantastic job, bringing home several awards, from spirit (boy they were loud!), to Leadership awards.

The Lego teams are our "feeder" program. Many of the high school team members started out on the lego team - we have seniors this year that have been involved in FIRST for 6+ years!