Registration 2010

[Chris is me]

1714 missed preregistration for the first time this year. Guess we're earning our way to the Championship; we haven't had a year where we didn't earn a spot, but it's never nice to have more pressure. Oh well! Hope to see you guys there!

(also glad to see 2470 prepaid )

[Akash Rastogi]

We'll be rollin' a robot to NJ, Boston, and Atlanta.

[Mark McLeod]

Minnesota North Star is now full
Virginia and Utah are now full 8am 10/24

P.S.
A day after 2nd Regional Registration opened I drove 300 miles past 7 Regional venues.
Only one had slots left for teams.

[rees2001]

We got lucky with the Championship Registration process. I logged in at 11:50 & kept going though the system for a few minutes to check it out. I had a student with the atomic clock sitting next to me to tell me when to get in. I started at the main team info page & went through the process. It actually took me almost 2 minutes to get registered but we got a spot. I also signed us up for Buckeye at the same time. Good thing, I had no idea it would fill up so quick.

[Greg Needel]

FIRST needs to publish the waitlist for the championship and I encourage everyone to call and tell them so. I am sure that many teams are in the same boat with enough money to attend 2 events we would rather go to the championship rather than another regional, but don't want to risk not going to a second event altogether. Having had to make championship plans last min, I would prefer never to do that again. If they show us the wait list it will illustrate what our chances are, if you are in the top 25 on the wait list vs 200th it will give teams a better understanding of what their options on rather than putting it all to chance.

[Wayne C.]

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

FIRST needs to publish the waitlist for the championship and I encourage everyone to call and tell them so. I am sure that many teams are in the same boat with enough money to attend 2 events we would rather go to the championship rather than another regional, but don't want to risk not going to a second event altogether. Having had to make championship plans last min, I would prefer never to do that again. If they show us the wait list it will illustrate what our chances are, if you are in the top 25 on the wait list vs 200th it will give teams a better understanding of what their options on rather than putting it all to chance.

Greg- I don't think they really care about we who set up these trips since they fill up the event anyway. The list sure must be a big secret. As it often seems, we care more about doing FIRST than they seem to care about helping us.
However filling the regionals that would otherwise have empty slots should financially motivate someone to show the wait list so the "distant" teams can spend their money elsewhere in the FIRST world.

You know needing to win a spot in Atlanta kind of changes my motivations for playing this game...

WC

[Terminator]

Originally Posted by waialua359

That is a good point about showing the wait list. They did in the past, so why not continue? It gives teams info that show how realistic it is to get in.

Our team is already debating whether to use our funds for a 3rd regional vs Atlanta. We cant wait until possibly as late as the Hawaii regional to see if we qualify and then decide how to pay for a Hawaii-Atlanta trip. In 2009, we had already qualified via the CMP EI award and had ample time to plan, raise funds and prepare. The other 3 Hawaii teams that qualified were scrambling big time! Its not like they could drive there.
We are hoping that our State ROC and BAE will come through again for Hawaii teams that qualify from Hawaii. BAE has been gracious to give each team 5k to attend Atlanta the last two years (10k when we won the CA award in 2008.)

If you guys go to Vegas, see you there. Brother who lives there is getting married that weekend.

Are you bringing the whole team to Vegas?
Third regional for your team. Can we suggest that you come back to New Jersey? We would love to see you come out here. We missed the Nationals, because Wayne was a real slacker that day and waited all the way until 12:01 and it was already full. I had to do this thing called teach class, which I am sure a lot of mentors do since it is a school event.
If we wait to make plans for Nationals after we hopefully would qualify for it, it would cost a lot more money for the late plans. Hopefully we will save the money for another trip out to Hawai'i, with or without the robot. Your regional was great. We felt like we won, just for stepping off of the plane. You couldn't have made us feel more welcomed.

[Mark McLeod]

Oregon is also full at 8am this morning.

[Vikesrock]

Minnesota 10,000 Lakes is at currently open capacity.

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Terminator

Are you bringing the whole team to Vegas?
Third regional for your team. Can we suggest that you come back to New Jersey? We would love to see you come out here. We missed the Nationals, because Wayne was a real slacker that day and waited all the way until 12:01 and it was already full. I had to do this thing called teach class, which I am sure a lot of mentors do since it is a school event.
If we wait to make plans for Nationals after we hopefully would qualify for it, it would cost a lot more money for the late plans. Hopefully we will save the money for another trip out to Hawai'i, with or without the robot. Your regional was great. We felt like we won, just for stepping off of the plane. You couldn't have made us feel more welcomed.

Only me and family will be there. Thats a lot of time away from home with the FRC/VEX stuff. We head out to Japan in two weeks to compete in VEX there.

As for NJ, we always wanted to come back but just decided on west coast and Arizona this time around.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by waialua359

As for NJ, we always wanted to come back but just decided on west coast and Arizona this time around.

*sniffles*

:'(

Oh well, maybe I'll just see you guys in Atlanta again?

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

*sniffles*

:'(

Oh well, maybe I'll just see you guys in Atlanta again?

We'll bring some mac nut chocolates to make it up to you folks. We just dont bring pineapples anymore since the airlines will kill us on checked baggage fees.

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by waialua359

We'll bring some mac nut chocolates to make it up to you folks. We just dont bring pineapples anymore since the airlines will kill us on checked baggage fees.

Sign me up for some of the Macadamia Nut Chocolates.

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Sign me up for some of the Macadamia Nut Chocolates.

Sure, no problem. All we ask is the collaboration spread a little farther west over the Pacific Ocean.
Nah, anything for the guy I finally got to meet behind that avatar.

[delsaner]

1676 is registered for NJ and VA