Pre-season events - Where are they?

[Foster]

While we have a standing invitation to the Rochester Rally on Feb 21, I'm trolling for a pre-season event closer to home, one in the Philadelphia area.

Post your "pre-season" event details here!

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Foster

While we have a standing invitation to the Rochester Rally on Feb 21, I'm trolling for a pre-season event closer to home, one in the Philadelphia area.

Post your "pre-season" event details here!

816 is planning on having a pre-ship scrimmage on our practice field.

I'm not too sure of the specifics though which is why I haven't posted them up yet. We're about 15-30minutes outside of Philadelphia though.

[Taylor]

1720 and 1501 are hosting a pre-ship scrimmage in Muncie, IN.

[EricH]

There's usually a pre-ship practice session somewhere in Los Angeles the weekend before ship. Not sure of this year's details.

[ChrisH]

The Los Angeles area Pre-Ship Scrimmage sponsored by SCRRF is being held at Harvey Mudd College on Sunday February 21 from 8am to about 4pm.

Registration fee is $200, this money is used to re-imburse teams that built field elements. If your team has a problem affording this please contact the organizers and we will arrange something.

The format wil be very free form, depending on how many robots are ready to run at any given time. If we have 4-6 robots wanting to play a match we will do that. If a couple of teams want to try out their Automode and nobody is waiting for a spot on the field, we can do that too. We want this event to be useful for your team. If there are no robots running, somebody is doing somethng wrong.

Registration through Roboevents will be opening early next week

[kevin.li.rit]

Originally Posted by EricH

There's usually a pre-ship practice session somewhere in Los Angeles the weekend before ship. Not sure of this year's details.

We're getting farther away from Phili here guys.

[TVwazhere]

Team 20, NY will be hosting an Exhibition match at the RPI industrial park the 26th i think...

We got a total of 6 comming

[Stimpy1901]

Team 2348 is hosting a pre-shipping scrimmage in Hawaii (Island of Oahu) on February 20, 2010. Most of the local teams just can't make it to the mainland to participate in more than one regional, and we found that the opportunity to practice on a full field was invaluable (helped us become Regional Winners last year).

[coldfusion1279]

The density of teams around NJ is HUGE.

Anyone that has practice space that they are willing to share in Philly, Central NJ and up north to NYC should post here!

It would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks in advance.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by coldfusion1279

The density of teams around NJ is HUGE.

Anyone that has practice space that they are willing to share in Philly, Central NJ and up north to NYC should post here!

It would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks in advance.

We are looking to either ask 816 for assistance, 103, or 303. Mike, how far are you from either of these teams?

[coldfusion1279]

303 we actually teamed up with last year to get a field model put together. But there has been some communication breakdown between our teams for some reason. Our high school is literally 5 minutes from theirs and 10 from their build site last year. It would be great if they had space, but I think the people we knew there are gone.

103 is in PA somewhere, and its at least 40 minutes to the border from our school.

816 is about an hour and 20 min from our school, which is do-able. I sent a member of their team a PM just a few minutes ago.

3 decent options. There are about 10 teams within a half hour of our school, who I was hoping would pop up here. But anything within an hour is feasible for our team.

[Foster]

We are still looking for a firm post about pre-season. We are 95% ready to go. Our preference is Saturday for teams waffling on what day to try to meet. We have a goal / target, tunnel and a bump we could bring.

Thanks!

[Kims Robot]

From Bill's Blog there was a request to let him know about the preship scrimmages and it looks like FIRST is making a good effort to get them all posted in the community events:
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...nt.aspx?id=436

I submitted a potential Championship Conference Presentation Abstract to talk about how teams can easily run their own pre-ship and offseason events on many scales. Its good to see so many teams are doing it (from the FIRST site), but we should definitely get more going, as they are invaluable for testing your robot in a much more real environment & potentially selecting your driveteams.