**FIRST EMAIL**/Invitation to Beta test the New Control System

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Bill's Blog

Teams should hear by September 2nd if they’ve been chosen...

I hope that teams will also hear if they have not been chosen. Silence is ambiguous. I wonder if FIRST plans to post an official list of the beta test teams.

[Rosiebotboss]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

I hope that teams will also hear if they have not been chosen. Silence is ambiguous. I wonder if FIRST plans to post an official list of the beta test teams.

It's 12:19 (or there abouts) and I have not seen anything from FIRST. Has anyone else?

[BornaE]

Still nothing! 10:10am Arizona

[ATannahill]

1:08 i see nothing, i was hoping for something before school got out

[IndySam]

This is like waiting for Obama's VP text.

[Jon236]

Maybe CNN will leak it!

[NickE]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

I wonder if FIRST plans to post an official list of the beta test teams.

Due to the intended community nature of the beta test, it would make sense for FIRST to post a public list of the chosen teams.

[Akash Rastogi]

I heard today that there are actually only 15 systems that will be spread around from my mentor who heard it from the regional director. Don't know how accurate it is but its a reliable source. This makes chances of getting the system very very low.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by lilstogi11

I heard today that there are actually only 15 systems that will be spread around from my mentor who heard it from the regional director. Don't know how accurate it is but its a reliable source. This makes chances of getting the system very very low.

That's not unexpected though. The numbers people have been tossing around are 12, 15, and 20. There's not much of a difference between 15 and 20.

[Zflash]

E-mails have been sent out and only 18 kits were provided who were the lucky ones?

[Alan Anderson]

I just received the official notice from FIRST. There are 18 systems to send out to the beta test participants.

The TechnoKats aren't getting one of them.

[Tom Bishop]

Just got our turn down email, but no list of accepted teams. Came here to see if there was a list!

[Mr MOE]

MOE 365 just got our letter also. We are not getting a system either.

Here is the letter we received...

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Greetings,
Thank you for applying for the 2009 New Control System Beta Test. Unfortunately we were not able to include you as a Beta Test team. We were only able to supply 18 teams with test kits and the final decision by the Woodie Flowers Award winners selection panel was based on a combination of strength of application, experience and geography.
We appreciate your willingness to assist us in this project and wish you the best of luck in the 2009 season.
--
FIRST Robotics Competition

(p) 1-800-871-8326 x 0
(f) 603-666-3907
frcteams@usfirst.org
www.usfirst.org

[Richard Wallace]

As of a minute ago, Bill Miller was logged onto the FIRST Forum and his activity was shown as:

Last Activity: Today 03:18 PM
Current Activity: Replying to Thread Bill's Place Main Page

I expect we will see an update from Bill shortly.

 Re: Beta Test Teams 1 

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Good Afternoon Teams,

Please join me in congratulating the 2009 New Control System Beta Test teams. Let me tell you, it was a real challenge to choose only 18 teams from all of the well qualified applicants. I have already contacted these teams to share the good news and will ship them their supplies as soon as the beta test kits are complete. The beta test teams will begin to share their results with everyone shortly after receiving their kits. Stay tuned, I’ll let you know where to find their comments.

16 Bomb Squad, Mountain Home, AR 
39 39th Aero Squadron, Falcon Robotics, Gilbert, Phoenix, AZ
67 HOT – Heroes of Tomorrow, Milford, MI
79 Team Krunch, Palm Harbor, FL
103 Cybersonics Technology Team, Kintnersville, PA
330 BeachBot, Hermosa Beach, CA
340 Greater Rochester Robotics, Churchville, NY
476 Wildcats, Ponca City, OK 
499 Toltechs, San Antonio, TX
668 The Apes of Wrath, San Jose, CA
1114 Simbotics, St. Catharines, Ontario
1425 Error Code Xero, Wilsonville, OR
1577 SteamPunk, Raanana, Israel
1583 Rambotics, Watkins, CO
1629 GaCo (Garrett Coalition), Oakland, MD
1714 More Robotics, Milwaukee, WI
1816 The Green Machine, Edina, MN
1848 SOUP, Atlanta, GA

122 days until Kickoff! See you then.

[Tottanka]

WOW.
moe and technokats don't get once?
i wanna here from 1114, 111, 330 and 25 now...they are my bet =]