Champ Attendees

[gvarndell]

Why no Europeans?
FRC not hot in Europe?

Wow, 6 from Israel -- almost as many as from MD.

Thanks for the breakdown.

[Dancin103]

Originally Posted by gvarndell

Why no Europeans?
FRC not hot in Europe?

Nope. The closest you can get is the UK.

Cass

[Zach O]

Good to see teams from even out of the country going! Even cooler to see 35 Michigan teams going!

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Dancin103

Nope. The closest you can get is the UK.

...and the Netherlands and Germany.

But none of them seem to be coming to Atlanta this year.

[gvarndell]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

...and the Netherlands and Germany.

I would have been really surprised if there were NO teams in Germany.

[Dancin103]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

...and the Netherlands and Germany.

But none of them seem to be coming to Atlanta this year.

Oh yeah. Wow sorry for my blonde moment.

Cass

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

The German teams are on US military facilities; so far no actual Germans.

We've had two "actual Germans" on the TechnoKats in recent years (exchange students).

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

We've had two "actual Germans" on the TechnoKats in recent years (exchange students).

And one of them just finished up 34 hours of work at AndyMark over the past 3 weeks to earn money for his trip to Atlanta. (Way to go Tobi!!!!!)

I would write a glowing recommendation for him any day. He was very very productive.

Andy B.

[Mark McLeod]

We've also had various Germans working with us on 358 through our sponsor Festo. Usually they have been sent to the US to gain experience.
They typically spend some spare time bumming around the US sightseeing.

Team alumnus have keep up with each other and recently several decended on one of our past German mentors now living in Switzerland.


Europe (and the UK and Ireland) are represented by robotics teams in both FLL and FTC, as well as, India, Columbia, Chile, Peru, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Eqypt, Saudia Arabia, Haiti, Norway, Turkey, Thailand, Spain, South Korea, South Africa, Singapore, New Zealand, Jordan, Japan, more Australians, a regular smorgasbord of nationalities.

So that's:

• 344 FRC
• 100 FTC
• 85 FLL

For a total of 529 robotics teams attending Championship.

I happily stand corrected.

[gvarndell]

Originally Posted by Dancin103

Nope. The closest you can get is the UK.

Pity.
We have software engineering offices in Stockholm.
Some of Sweden's brightest computer geeks work there.
I've posted pictures and videos on our internal forums.
So far, no signs of interest coming back from them.

[Gary Dillard]

Originally Posted by Dancin103

Nope. The closest you can get is the UK.

Cass

The UK will be disappointed to hear that they are not in Europe

[GaryVoshol]

There are a number of good FLL teams in Europe, especially in UK, Germany, Netherlands, Scandanavia. The cost of travelling to a competition probably limits the number of FRC teams. And, if they do compete and qualify for CMP, they probably can't afford another trip in terms of both time and money.

[gvarndell]

Originally Posted by Gary Dillard

The UK will be disappointed to hear that they are not in Europe

Always on the lookout for a humor opp, I passed on this one.
I think she meant that FRC is close to being hot in the UK and not even close in other European countries (or are they States now?).

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by Gary Dillard

The UK will be disappointed to hear that they are not in Europe

The folks I know from the UKoGBaNI would be just fine if Europe was to be just a little farther away.

[Gary Dillard]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

The folks I know from the UKoGBaNI would be just fine if Europe was to be just a little farther away.

Yeah, I was in Ireland last year just before their vote on the Lisbon treaty (the second vote, which passed; it failed the first vote) and it was a pretty hot issue.