VEX Robotics World Championship Reminder Video

[Ricky Q.]

A special reminder video for those coming to Dallas next week:

http://robotevents.com/reminder-video

See you all soon!

[lynca]

Awesome video ! I'm signed up to attend with the DiscoBots 2587 (three teams) and Rice University

VEX worlds this year is going to be amazing. Near 400 teams are registered and the Dallas Convention Center is a fantastic venue.

Who from ChiefDelphi and the FIRST community is attending ?

[DinerKid]

I'll be there. Compared to FRC 1768's team of 30, VRC 1768 is a bit smaller (just me). Maybe I'll see you around although with over 400 teams it is kinda unlikely.

~DK

[Meredith Novak]

Novaks will be there with our 7th grade Bomb Squad VEX Team 16!!! (Assuming we survive Atlanta...)

[dtengineering]

1346C qualified, but we're saving our travel money for a run at Atlanta one of these days with the big machine.

We'll be cheering for our neighbours, from Gladstone secondary (I believe 721 has the current world record in driver skills at 131 points) and our Redmond friends from the Exothermic teams (one of whom has a driver skills score of 130.)

And yes... the BC VEX Championships WERE a pretty awesome event when you've got driver skills scores of 130 and 131 at one event, especially when the teams have been going head to head (and sometimes allied together... frightening when that happens) for three years now!

Its a pity there are 100 teams in each division, though. Even with a full-complement FRC team it is difficult to thoroughly scout a 100 team event. With smaller VEX teams, it is going to be next to impossible to pick out the top 24 from a pool that size.

Eight 50 team divisions would have been a much more reasonable breakdown, although I know the logistics and volutunteer resources required would be higher.

Jason

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by dtengineering

Eight 50 team divisions would have been a much more reasonable breakdown, although I know the logistics and volutunteer resources required would be higher.

Ack! The thought of recruiting eight divisions (which would be 16 fields) worth of volunteers give me the cold sweats.

Exothermic Robotics will be there with eight teams and 50 people. This should be fun.

[Karthik]

Team 1114 will be represented with two teams, while I'm stoked to be MCing with Grant Imahara!

[penguinfrk]

VRC 1899 will be there! Drop by our pit for a visit!

Ah, Trobotics we'll miss you. Your alliance brought us to worlds after all (and kindly donated your set of game objects at Microsoft Seattle). And I believe Green Egg Robotics has a 133 score from New England Championships.

Although I'm hearing scores as high as 143 for practice.

I actually think 4 divisions of 100 is more reasonable not only because of the resources necessary, but also because alliances will be selected from a larger pool. More divisions = potentially splitting up teams that together would have deserved the championship.

[Foster]

Teams 80 and 81 from Downingtown Area Robotics will be there. Six of our middle school roboteers will be competing! They are very excited.

(And I'm excited too, these are first time robot builders that built some pretty impressive machines. I can't wait to see what they build NEXT year. )

[Nawaid Ladak]

anybody have an idea where i can get a teamlist of teams attending?

Ill probably be doing my event routine for another week i guess (watch events while getting stuff done at work...)

[familyguyfreak]

Does anyone know if there will be a webcast of the matches?

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by familyguyfreak

Does anyone know if there will be a webcast of the matches?

Yes: http://robotics.nasa.gov

[larrysz92]

The webcast is still not up!

[familyguyfreak]

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

Yes: http://robotics.nasa.gov

Thanks!!

Originally Posted by larrysz92

The webcast is still not up!

They might not have it up today because I believe they are just doing practice rounds. I'm not sure though.

[Stimpy1901]

Originally Posted by familyguyfreak

Thanks!!



They might not have it up today because I believe they are just doing practice rounds. I'm not sure though.

Actually, the schedule has seeding rounds starting Thursday afternoon.